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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Posts tagged as “visual art”

Remembering the COVID dead through art and memorials

Carol Prud’homme Davis, executive director of Inside Change, talking about her organization’s panel. (Photo by Bonnie Rosenstock)

Remembering the COVID dead through art and memorials

November 10, 2023

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | The Day of the Dead, the traditional Mexican holiday that honors family members and others who have died, took place from…

At the Whitney: A powerful Native American voice and a 21st-century visionary

"Trade Canoe for Don Quixote," by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

At the Whitney: A powerful Native American voice and a 21st-century visionary

April 24, 2023

BY HANNAH REIMANN | Visitors to The Whitney Museum are in for some more groundbreaking shows this spring and summer — treats for the eyes…

Bowie, art and pandemic/Trump anxiety mingle in Tribeca exhibit

A photo of David Bowie as Jennifer Elster styled him back in the mid-’90s for the character Ramona for a song on the album "1. Outside," along with some designs and words Elster painted on the photo a couple of years ago. The original portrait was shot by John Scarisbrick. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Bowie, art and pandemic/Trump anxiety mingle in Tribeca exhibit

March 15, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Amid a jungle of construction lights and 16-foot-tall, white Corinthian columns in a 4,000-square-foot Tribeca gallery space, Jennifer Elster’s “Take Heed”…

In first exhibit since COVID crisis, an explosion of art at Center on Square

A collage at Expo 2022. (Photo by Sharon Woolums)

In first exhibit since COVID crisis, an explosion of art at Center on Square

January 6, 2023

BY SHARON WOOLUMS | The long-awaited Expo 2022, a showcase of the brilliant talents at Greenwich House’s older adult centers, was put together by volunteers…

In memoir, Lilly Dancyger uncovers the truth of her father’s life, art and death, and finds herself

Lilly Dancyger with her father, Joe Schactman, and her mother, Heidi O'Donnell, at an art gallery in the 1980s. (Courtesy Lilly Dancyger)

In memoir, Lilly Dancyger uncovers the truth of her father’s life, art and death, and finds herself

June 11, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The title of Lilly Dancyger’s riveting new memoir “Negative Space” refers to the empty areas in a drawing or painting. It’s…