The opening of P.S.1’s show, “Greater New York 2005,” drew around 6,000 young hip art lovers on Sunday to look at art, check out one another’s outfits, and in some cases, complain about the whims of the art world in Long Island City.
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The story of photographer and journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach is one that sweeping Merchant-Ivory bio-pics are made of. Her photograph could be an icon, pinned up on dorm room walls of free-spirited college students.
But the tragic, talented and adventurous life of Schwarzenbach, is largely unknown here in the United States. Celebrated in Europe, Thomas Mann called her a “ravaged angel.” Carson McCullers dedicated a book to her. In one sense her relative obscurity is a shame, but in another, it’s a delicious blessing.
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Across from the mausoleum and surrounded by headstones, the jumpy rhythms of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” filled the air at St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst last Saturday.
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New Yorkers aren’t surprised to see art in any number of places, on the walls of restaurants, in dusty basements and in a good many converted industrial spaces. But there are still places where the mere presence of art is an utter surprise.
On the first floor of the permanently drab municipal parking lot on Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, a former furniture store owned by Bill Modell of Modell’s Sporting Goods, will open as an art space on Friday for a month-long exhibition, “Exposure.”
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In hip-hop music, more than any other, where you come from is paramount. There isn’t a fan worth his sneakers who can’t tell you exactly where his favorite rapper was born, raised and ran the streets.
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“The Rockaways seem to be torn between suburbs and the city,” said filmmaker Mark Street. “It reminded me of teenage girls.”
His experimental feature film, “Rockaway,” which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this month, is a meandering study of three high school girlfriends who live on the thin strip of land east of Manhattan and a stone’s throw from Kennedy Airport.
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