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Without your immediate help, the McGraw-Hill Building's important Art Deco interior could be lost forever! Help us show the developers that Art Deco matters!
MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT by signing this petition asking the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to act quickly to calendar and designate the exquisite Art Deco lobby of the McGraw-Hill Building, before we lose this globally recognized architectural masterpiece. ADSNY is dismayed that preliminary designs for the lobby renovation propose the destruction of one of New York's most important Art Deco interiors. With the looming threat of demolition, we need to move quickly to urgently protect the McGraw-Hill lobby and show the developers that Art Deco matters! The lobby walls bear an important, unmistakable resemblance to the building’s iconic exterior. The alternating blue and green steel bands separated by silver and gold colored metal tubes at the main entrance are seamlessly carried into the lobby to complement its green enameled steel walls. This lobby must be protected NOW, so we need your help TODAY. https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-art-deco-lobby-of-the-mcgraw-hill-building.html
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By Lina Romero Almost a year ago, colleges announced the switch from in-person to virtual classes due to COVID-19. And as much as my school, Virginia Commonwealth University, insists we are still getting the same education, I disagree. I’ve felt a notable drop in the quality of my courses since the change, and I know I’m not alone in this. It’s not all on the professors, though. In my opinion, online learning just doesn’t engage students the same way that being in a classroom does. It also enables cheating, fails to facilitate good discussions, and makes group projects even more painful than before.
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By Dario Mohr Today, many artists and spectators are used to viewing artwork in a white-walled space with limited sensory, environmental input. Although seeing art in a white vacuum is a useful method for experiencing art, many nations have creators who traditionally and currently present their work in ways that are woven into everyday life and culture. This can be seen in the male initiation ritual masks created and worn for centuries in masquerade performances in Papua New Guinea, as well as in the figurehead sculptures crowning the front of boats for annual races that still take place today in Nigeria. For the 2nd Annual AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship, six Queens-based, female artists of color with immigration journeys to the US had the unique challenge of creating and displaying their work in a natural environment at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, NY. This resulted in a public art show that ran through summer 2020. Now, months later, they come together again, displaying relics from the initial exhibit along with new and continued explorations that are in conversation with the original public works. This exhibition, located in QBG’s indoor gallery, is called “On the Inside Looking Out.”
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Church bells chuckle, gradually breaking into full-fledged laughter as I pull into the convent parking lot. Another autumn morning delights them. I wonder, too, if they are amused by my presence. I am the little heathen painting murals in the most Catholic of locales: a convent that sits at the back of a parish, across the street from a parochial school. The convent was renovated prior to New York City’s COVID-19 lockdown. Half of it remains a convent and the other half has been converted into a group home for individuals with disabilities.
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By Sara Swallow Back in the early 2000’s, Nickelodeon aired a cartoon called Winx Club. In this show, viewers were introduced to fairies of all different elements who attend a fairy college called Alfea. There was Bloom, the main protagonist of the show, who was born in the human world but possesses a powerful fire fairy magic. Then, once Bloom is taken into the fairy world, she attends Alfea and meets her friend group, the Winx. There’s Stella, a princess light fairy of Solaria; Flora, a flower fairy; Tecna, a technology fairy; Musa, a music/sound fairy; and Aisha, a water fairy. This fantastic group of fairies fights against monsters and against witches from Cloud Tower School: Stormy, Icy, and Darcy. Winx Club was one of my favorite shows to watch in the mornings when I was getting ready to get on the bus for school. Its bright story about friendship hooked me.
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My mother and grandmother always wanted me to pursue higher education beyond my current Master's degree. For a while, I planned on entering the world of higher education, hoping I would one day be called Dr. or at least Professor Gales.
If I do, it probably won't be an MFA. There are a myriad of reasons, most of them financial. Even with full funding and stipends, it is unlikely I would ever have a return on the investment or a job as a full-time professor with such oversaturation in the field. But it is mostly because I am greatly disturbed by the number of times “prestigious” institutions consistently enable bad behavior or keep things hushed to avoid any stains on their legacy. I’m looking at you, Poetry Magazine. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Sara Swallow It’s the summer of 2015 and I’m bored out of my mind because I can’t drive yet. I’m sitting at home scrolling through Instagram, back when the icon was the brown camera and had blue accents, and I’m seeing my friends post pictures of their beach trips (#beachlife). I wish I was anywhere but here, stuck at home. (2020 me is looking back at 2015-Sara and shaking my head saying: Girl, if only you knew how much you wouldn't want to be stuck in the house).The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
From the album’s first track “the 1” opening with the line “I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit” Taylor Swift let us know that this surprise album of Summer 2020, would be nothing like she had ever released before and there would be no holding back. Since the initial release of her first album Taylor Swift in 2006, Swift has become a household name and showed her wide range of musical prowess from country, to pop, to her newest endeavor into the folk genre with her most emotionally ambitious album yet: Folklore.
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