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PostSecret founder TC visit forges Internet intimacy

Christine Jordan for Spectator

Christine Jordan for Spectator

Frank Warren is the keeper of America’s deepest, darkest secrets—secrets which he shares with six million people per month.

Warren, founder of the PostSecret project, stopped by the Cowin Center Auditorium at the Teachers College on Tuesday night to promote the Tuesday release of new book, “Confessions on Life, Death, and God,” the fifth in the New York Times bestselling PostSecret series, and to discuss the culture in which a project like PostSecret is born. (more…)

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Christine Jordan

October 7, 2009

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NYFF: Day 4 – In the Name of the Will

THE ART OF THE STEAL

Dr. Albert Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation.

Dr. Albert Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation.

The automobile industry in Flint. A former US Secretary of Defense. The National Spelling Bee. A man who lives with Grizzly bears. A collection of paintings? Though they may not sound like much, each are the synopses of some of the most fascinating documentaries produced in the last 25 years. The last of which, referring to the controversial displacement of Dr. Albert Barnes’ historic collection of Post-Impressionist paintings from his country home at the private Barnes Foundation – where his will stipulates the collection was always to stay – to a public museum in Philadelphia, is a bare-bones summary of Don Argott’s ingenious documentary “The Art of the Steal”. (more…)

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Steven Strauss

September 29, 2009

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William Blake and the Imagination at the Morgan Library and Museum

Prophetic genius or deranged sociopath?  The line is often a fine one for those seminal figures heralded as visionaries for their creative brilliance, and William Blake is no exception.

The English, Romantic poet and painter, whose prints and watercolors are currently on display at the Morgan Library and Museum in the exhibition, “William Blake’s World: A New Heaven Is Begun,’” was labeled both by his contemporaries, and the startlingly stunning body of work presented parades both his dazzling creativity and unbridled madness. (more…)

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Arielle Concilio

September 22, 2009

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Can’t Get Tickets to Fashion Week? Get Your Fashion Fix on the Other Side of Bryant Park Instead

The International Center of Photography at 42nd St. and 6th Ave. across from Bryant Park seems to have answered my prayers. The Richard Avedon Foundation lent his entire collection in addition to the actual prints on which he scribbled notes, sketches, negatives, and original photographs for display all summer and even for the first few weeks that we are back at school.

Richard Avedon, the fashion photographer who stands next to Annie Liebovitz as the greatest of all time, spent part of his youth in Morningside Heights. Looks like our most talented Columbia alumnus may not have been President Obama after all. (more…)

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Elyssa Goldberg

August 10, 2009

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Right through the very heart of it, Newark, Newark.

I often find myself trying to explain to others why New Jersey—my home state—isn’t as bad as the rest of the country seems to make it out to be. (more…)

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hyudkin

August 1, 2009

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Crawling with Art: Harlem

There is a renaissance going on, according to some, just north of Central Park and east of Morningside. An area which some declare is now SoHa (South Harlem) is home to a burgeoning artistic community increasingly eager to make its presence known.

It is trying to do so through the Harlem Arts Alliance (HAA), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts (visual, performing, music, etc.). There are about 4-6 of these half-day, guided trolley tours per year. The upcoming ArtCrawl Harlem will take place on August 8th. (more…)

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Shane Ferro

July 24, 2009

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