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Showing posts with label September. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Lunch Links for September 23: The Times They Are a-Changin'

Toby Melville / Reuters A woman passes an Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at Christies auction house in central London


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From astonishing scientific revelations to a social media site's new look, today's links help you deal with a world in turmoil.
e = Who Knows?: You might have to forget everything Einstein taught you. (Guardian)
Facebook's Folly: Farhad Manjoo smartly and accurately points out the problem with Mark Zuckerberg's new design. (Slate)
Man Vs. Computer: Play Rock, Paper, Scissors with this interactive graphic to see if you're smarter than a computer. (New York Times)
Photography of Olympic Proportions: Meet the athlete photographer who's willing to go for gold to get his shot. (TIME)
Travelin' (Wo)Man:

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The NY art world commemorates September 11 in music, film

NEW YORK-"Boy, it's a great city," said Woody Allen, lounging on a park bench overlooking the East River of Manhattan and 59th Street Bridge. "" "". I don't care what everyone said. This is really a knock-out, you know? »

The scene is 1979 film "Manhattan," Allen a portrait sustainable, romantic in the hometown of the Director, "a city that existed in black and white and lived to the great Arias of George Gershwin." "".

It is a time capsule of a bygone New York, long before the original band has changed on September 11, 2001.

Sunday, New York theatres, museums, concert halls, galleries and rooms will be abound in cultural events in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the day. Happenings range projections of old movies such as "Manhattan" at Lincoln Center great symphonies to humble performances. But they all seek to use the arts – a bedrock, New York life - to share in reflection, to inspire emotion, to add only a minimum of healing of wounds too fresh to be 10 years old.

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Academy of music in Brooklyn, said there are many institutions that "wants to be collection of places for people to express their feelings, be together and have an emotional connection."

"A cultural institution of large role," said, "is always respond to the public and respond to events which stir the public."

BAM, as he did on the first anniversary of September 11, will screen "Manhattan" free Sunday. It also later in the month will welcome the Kronos Quartet performing "Clocks," a meditation on 9/11.

Galleries of Chelsea in the theatres of Broadway, the cultural landscape of the city will be held Sunday. It has already been in preparation for the anniversary, its industry of publishing, books and magazines commemorative special edition of the the New Yorker and his media preparing to television coverage on the site of the World Trade Center of turbulence.

"Music after," a 15-hour-long concert featuring the musicians of New York including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, David Bowie, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and Elliot Carter, will be held in free in SoHo. Silent Music Orchestra will perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be live streaming on npr.org and wqxr.org.

Cathedral Saint-Patrick, New York Choral Society will perform, among other works, of Harry Belafonte "" turn the world autour."" Symphony Space will present a free Memorial concert with readings of poetry selected. In the Lower East Side, will perform jazz saxophonists Joe McPhee, Rob Brown and Oliver Lake, among others, "" from the ashes: 10 years later. ""

At the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic will perform Mahler's "resurrection". (It will be broadcast live on WQXR and WNYC and be aired Sunday on PBS).

Sunday, Lincoln Center will host "A Concert of celebration" with Karl Jenkins ' "armed man: a mass for peace." " The event was coordinated as a "global peace sing," with the choirs of the world performing "The armed Man" throughout September.

"Music has emotional force that can move people and bring it all together," explains Jenkins. "" "". He has a healing force and a healing power and certainly a spiritual power. And I think that this will be evident on this occasion. »

The Public, "Sweet and sad" theatre, a new piece by Tony Award - winner Richard Nelson, will be opened. Which will take place on September 11, 2011, the game continues the playwright on "immediate" series.

There are many other pieces on the theme of the 11 September in the theaters off-Broadway, "Fences", y including Rehana Mirza Steve Fetter Lew "A step blue sky as the other" and Obie Award-winning of Jonas Hassen Khemiri "Invasion!"

Friday, Broadway collectively marked the anniversary by singing "New York, New York" Times Square, as cast members and musicians did in the days of 9/11.

Lincoln Center will host a special screening of Spike Lee "25th Hour", with the Director in the presence. Integrated Lee 9/11 in the film, including the opening credits showcase Spotlight shined on the site of the shopping centre.

The Museum of the Moving Image project "Man on Wire," citizen documentary on the promenade of the French artist tightrope walker Philippe Petit wire between the tops of the twin towers in 1974.

Located on the edge of the downtown area which was closed after 11 September, the Film Forum, New York of cinema directory bastion, was forced to close for several days after the event. At the time, he was running a series of films with New York "NYPD" most beautiful, including the "French Connection" and "The taking of Pelham 123."

To commemorate the 10th anniversary, the Film Forum runs the series once again, in tribute to the New York Police Department. Sunday, it will detect "Serpico," Sidney Lumet "The Naked City" of Jules Dassin and the less known "Pay or Die!" with Ernest Borgnine as early NYPD crime organized-Hunter Joe Petrosino.

"We do this kind of thing much, commemorating," explains Bruce Goldstein, Director of the Film Forum directory. "But 9/11 was simply too memorable, too traumatic day a day not to recognize a way, the way in which we do best, which shows movies.".

At Bryant Park, a tribute will be held with empty chairs representing each victim of New York, terrorist attacks. In an exhibition of the artist Sheryl Oring, several typists will record the thoughts of the visitors on September 11. (There are many memorials and tributes held around the city, including "Tribute in light", two beams of light that will echo the twin towers.)

The Met is presenting a "The 9/11 peace Story quilt," aging faith Ringgold designed, in collaboration with students from New York, 8 to 19. The new Museum, free Sunday, will feature of Spanish artist Elena del Rivero installation. It is inspired by his apartment in downtown, which filled with debris after the attacks.

MoMA p.s.1, one of the oldest in the country and most large institutions without profit of contemporary art, will open the exhibit "11 September" with 70 works by artists such as Diane Arbus, Christo, and Yoko Ono that examine how 9/11 has "changed the ways in which see us and experience the world." The Brooklyn Museum organized the exhibition "" ten years later: Ground Zero Remembered. ""

There will be exhibitions of photographs, including one at the International Center of Photography; Joel Meyerowitz's "Aftermath". Portraits of Joe McNally of the heroes of 9/11, "faces of Ground Zero: 10 years later". Study of decades of Camilo José Vergara of World Trade Center, "The Twin Towers and the city"; former, photographs of NYPD detective boot John; and much more.

Sarah Skaggs' "dance of 9/11 - a traveling Memorial" will bring a meditative choreography in multiple locations around the city.

Of course, there are many, many other events across the city Sunday. And gatherings will be more there, not. Monday, comedians Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler will be the host of the second annual 9/11 memorial - hugging puppy parade in the Gowanus of Brooklyn section.

As the narrator in the grand old Dassin film: "There are eight million stories in the naked city." The 10th anniversary of the September 11, there will be at least that many.



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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Students with President Bush September 11 Look Back

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Hundreds hold hands of New York remember September 11

Published September 10, 2011| Associated Press

NEW YORK - Hundreds of people are gathered in lower Manhattan to hold the hands after the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Families, youth and others held hands as a Bell clanged 08: 46 Saturday to serve both the first of two hijacked planes crashed in the North of the World Trade Center Tower.

The Group has created a straight line winds its way along the southern tip of Manhattan and an exhibition of American flags, displayed to honour the dead.

After a moment of silence, the group entered applause. Some people were crying. Others - including foreigners - hugged.

Manhattan resident Dino Fusco brought her two daughters to the event. The father, 45 years old, said that it is important to pay tribute and to learn about the history of the country, even when it's sad.



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Sunday, September 11, 2011

NYC Labor parade mixed with reflection on September 11

Published September 10, 2011| Associated Press

NEW YORK - Members of hundreds of unions are honoring labor by marching in a parade of the city of New York laced also with memories of the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Parade of NYC Central work of the Council will be held Saturday, although it commemorates the labour day. The group says that more than 50 000 members of the Union are expected. They include firefighters and other workers in uniform.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is walking with workers.

Before a mass pre-parade at the Cathedral Saint-Patrick, truck driver and member of the Teamsters Mark Vigilante recalls hauling debris from the site of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks of 2001.

One of his friends, firefighter Thomas Kennedy, was killed.

Then that vigilant is reflecting on its raw memories of the attacks, he said "life must go".



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