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NYC Center for Media Education @ 175 E 104th St, New York, NY
Discover the secrets of podcasting at NYC Center for Media Education. Learn the technical skills needed for production, editing, and distribution, and start creating your podcast today. No prior experience is required.
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Participate in this six-session course to learn about how the City reawakens in the Spring through song, play, and special art Toddler programs are geared towards families with children ages 2–4 years old and include all materials and a snack. Activities are designed for adults and children to complete together. The spring series costs $180 for one child and one adult. An additional charge of $80 applies for a second participating child...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he became first black major league baseball player of the modern era – and paved the way for athletes to serve as harbingers of social change. Twenty years later, at the 1968 Olympic Games, track and field star John Carlosraised his fist in silent protest of American racial and economic injustice, resulting not only in a world famous photograph, but also his suspension from the U.S. Olympic...
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Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Drop-in for a family celebration in honor of the 47th annual Earth Day! Participate in a scavenger hunt in the exhibition Activist New York to learn about the various ways that New Yorkers work to protect our planet. Enjoy activities, songs, books, and healthy snacks. Then design a pot inspired by the environment, and plant a seed to take home with you! Registration suggested, though not required. Family programs are free with Museum admission...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Synonymous with mojitos, sultry nightclubs, and classic cars, Cuba, the Caribbean’s largest island, is enjoying a new moment in the sun thanks to a relaxing of U.S. relations. Inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York (opens June 13), discover how Cuba's love of music and dance has mixed and melded with Puerto-Rican and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to create a sizzling cultural fusion unique to New York City. ...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Most of the artists comprising The Eight – William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan – were influenced by the nineteenth-century American artist James McNeill Whistler, as were their close friends Alfred Maurer and George Bellows. Whistler was an extraordinarily prominent artist, so positing him as an inspiration may seem obvious. However, these painters – advocates of urban realism...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change. Explore rare artifacts, documents, costumes, photographs, and audio-visual materials in the exhibition Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics to learn about their stories. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper doll with a message for change.
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The exhibition Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip explores the full arc of 1960s fashion, shedding new light on a period marked by tremendous and daring stylistic diversity. Get inspired by New York designers such as Mary Quant, Geoffrey Beene, and Pauline Trigère, then use fabric swatches to create a 3-dimensional sketch of your very own design!
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
On International Jazz Day 2018, The Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York are teaming up for the first public screening of the only known film of Louis Armstrong in the studio, recording his 1959 album, Satchmo Plays King Oliver. The acquisition of the film made headlines in 2015 but it has never been shown publicly until now. Armstrong scholar Ricky Riccardi will provide commentary on the film...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In this intimate, behind-the-scenes look at our upcoming exhibition, Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers, documentary photographer Thomas Holton sits down with several members of the Lam family, including Steven and Cindy Lam, both subjects featured in his series of photographs, "The Lams of Ludlow Street." Holton and the Lams will discuss their unique 15-year working relationship as photographer and subject in...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Can the bricks, glass, wood, and mortar of our city's most emblematic buildings reveal how and why New York City has become the modern global metropolis we know today? To celebrate the launch of his latest book, A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis, former New York Times urban affairs correspondent Sam Roberts sits down for a conversation with Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange. They'll...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Manhattan’s dramatic growth over the centuries is often pictured as a process of expansion, either northwards (up the island) or upwards (with ever taller skyscrapers). But since the 17th century, the island has also been expanding outwards into the East and Hudson Rivers through landfill. Garbage and rubble have long been used to create hundreds of acres of new, artificial land along Manhattan’s coastline. Once overlooked, this landfill...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Although fashion has sometimes been seen as anti-feminist, the cut of a top or the flash of a thigh can empower women to decide for themselves what it means to be female. No one knows this better than Norma Kamali and Christene Barberich. Creator of such iconic styles as the sleeping bag coat and "athleisure," Kamali has emerged as one of the most influential women in fashion in the last five decades. Barberich is the co-founder and...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In the tumultuous 1960s, fashion underwent a radical transformation from the styles of the straight-laced 1950s to clothes inspired by the cultural and societal changes that defined the new decade. This shift was spurred on by designers who launched new looks and paved the way for trends of the ‘70s onward. Join New York designers Andrea Aranow and Anna Sui for a conversation with fashion historian Hazel...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join an after-hours Valentine’s Day stroll through the Museum to discover the weird, the cool, the famous, and the infamous stories of romance in this fabled city. Price includes the fun-filled tour and a champagne toast in the marble Rotunda under the dazzling Starlight. Space is limited and advance registration is required.
NYC Center for Media Education @ 175 E 104th St, New York, NY
Learn how to create high-quality video content using just your mobile device in this course at the NYC Center for Media Education. Discover the best stabilization, sound, and mobile resources to produce professional videos, and gain skills in cinematography, audio principles, and editing techniques. Basic Mac computing skills are required for this workshop.
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs As part of the new “Meet the Curators” tour series, join Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, as he guides you through Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers. As you stroll through the gallery, Corcoran will discuss the three featured photographers—Thomas Holton, Annie Ling, and An Rong Xu—and how the exhibition provides a window...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
For the final event in our Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs program series, we lift our eyes up to gaze across the Atlantic at the ever-lively and inventive world of French cartooning. What does the contemporary cartooning, graphic novel and comics scene look like in France today, home of the beloved classic comix series of Tin Tin and Asterix, but also the provocative/incendiary Charlie Hebdo magazine? Who is the Parisian Roz Chast (if there even is...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Paint outside the box! Create designs for your very own hands and face inspired by Keith Haring, who was known for his expressive style as one of the world’s most successful artists. Visit the exhibition Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York to learn about Haring’s collaboration with dancer Bill T. Jones. Then work with a professional body painter to bring your ideas to life. Family programs are free with Museum...
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The collective trauma of World War I not only reshaped the world’s map and redefined the nature of war, it also fundamentally transformed art. Join a group of leading scholars to investigate new modes of literature, painting, and music that arose in response to the war and formed a cornerstone of 20th-century modernism. Inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York (opens April 5th), panelist...
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