Year: 2017

April 10

1710 – The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain 1790 – Robert Gray is first American to circumnavigate the Earth 1841 – New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley 1849 – Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400 1864 – Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of...
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format 8x10-inch camera.

Striking a Chord

High up in the skyscraper known as 28 Liberty, (formerly Chase Manhattan Plaza), 50 artists are toiling away, each painting, and creating art on a unique canvas of ebony and ivory. Their 50 different ideas will inspire, amuse and bring pleasure to New Yorkers this summer when these pianos are placed outdoors around the five...
Sing for Hope artists

Remix Gets Nixed

Tribeca’s nightlife is a tad less tawdry after a series of recent enforcement actions directed at Remix, a Park Place bar that billed itself as a dance club, but was actually, according to police, operating as an adult entertainment venue. Although Remix has a years-long history of close brushes with the law, and calls by...

April 7

451 – Attila’s Huns plunder Metz 529 – First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”) is issued by order of Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor. 1348 – Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV 1712 – Slave revolt in New York City. The Revolt was an uprising by...
Gutenberg Bible of the New York Public Library. Bought by James Lenox in 1847, it was the first copy to be acquired by a United States citizen.

April 6

46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus. 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders,...
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. He was born April 6, 1483 and died April 6,1520