Friday, November 3, 2023 – GREAT SIGHTS TO ENJOY THIS MONTH

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EARLY VOTING IS TAKING PLACE IN THE RIVAA GALLERY, 527 MAIN STREET
ON THESE DATES:

Friday, November 3	8am-4pm
Saturday, November 4	9am-5pm
Sunday, November 5	9am-5pm

ELECTION DAY-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT  PS 217

FROM THE ARCHIVES

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3,  2023

MUST-SEE ART

INSTALLATIONS IN NYC,

NOVEMBER 2023

PART 2

ISSUE  #1117

UNTAPPED NEW YORK

The New York Botanical Garden is bringing back its Holiday Train Show this year with the promise to be bigger and better than ever. Watch trains zip by hundreds of scale models of iconic New York buildings, like Yankee Stadium or the Empire State Building. Be sure to look above you to catch 1800s steam engines and street cars traveling over New York City bridges and through tunnels in a brand-new aerial display overhead. The team behind the show, Applied Imagination, takes an environmentally friendly route with their projects, for example using screw-bean mesquite pods to represent the hair on the Statue of Liberty model or Eucalyptus seed pods to build Saks Fifth Avenue.

mage Courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden

On select nights this holiday season, guests can visit the NYBG Train Show as well as GLOW, an extravagant outdoor light experience. The many libraries and conservatories of the Garden will transform into canvases for this light show, decked out in thousands of lights with sounds dancing across the buildings. Similar to the Holiday Train Show, the designers of GLOW opted to use energy-efficient lights to create the same glittering display with less cost to our planet. Drinks and food can be purchased at the Garden’s outdoor bars or at the Bronx Night Market pop-up that will be included for the holiday season.

Creeping On Where Time Has Been (2023) © Keri Sheheen, SIR New Dorp Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: Sean Sweeney.

Artist Keri Sheehan joins forces with the Staten Island Railway to beautify the New Dorp station. Her piece, titled “Creeping on Where Time Has Been” uses laminated glass windows and metal railings to honor Staten Island’s architecture and nature. While waiting for your train, visitors can view the art and try to spot the iconic landmarks of the borough, like the Vanderbilt Mausoleum. The project’s title comes from a poem by Charles Dickens called “The Ivy Green”, alluding to the ivy that has always, and seemingly will always, be prevalent on Staten Island. 

Courtesy of the Artist and Sapar Contemporary

NYC Art in the Parks Program continues with a new large-scale exhibition by Sui Park to be installed throughout Bella Abzug Park. Titled City Ecology, this collection of 32 sculptures is a physical embodiment of the residents within New York- colorful stories, vibrant lives, and dynamic patterns. Park created these figures out of cable ties, weaving them together to form shaped masses. They will be installed throughout the park, in some cases blending into the surroundings beautifully and in other cases bringing a gorgeous contrast. Park hopes that these sculptures will give passing visitors a moment to pause and be aware of the beauty around them. 

Nancy Lawson (Credit: William Matthew Prior/American Folk Art Museum

Black representation during the late 1600s to the early 1800s is undoubtedly pushed to the background of our textbooks, even more so in New England’s history. This new exhibit will give visitors a rare look into African American presence and absence in the North through 125 beautiful works, including portraits, paintings, needlework, and photos. Narratives will be flipped entirely with a walk through this highly-anticipated exhibition. The exhibition will be on display at the American Folk Art Museum from November 15th through March 24th

FRIDAY  PHOTO OF THE DAY

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THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

New York circa 1911. “Inspection room, Ellis Island.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (SHORPY)
HARA REISER, ARON EISENPREISS AND 
JOYCE GOLD GOT IT RIGHT.

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SHORPY HISTORIC AMERICAN PHOTO ARCHIVE
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