The Museum of the City of New York

Today, I saw two fascinating exhibits at The Museum of the City of New York:

Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979

"Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented "life on the beat" with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed's photographs reveal the complexity, the harshness, and the camaraderie of the city's public safety servants and the people they protected. Highlighting a recent gift to the Museum of the City of New York by his widow Bridgette Freed, the exhibition is a gritty, realistic portrait of ordinary people doing a "sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job."" - from The Museum of the City of New York



Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

"From the 1920s through the ‘60s, Manhattan’s artistic and social circles embraced British-born photographer and designer Cecil Beaton (1904-80). Cecil Beaton: The New York Years brings together extraordinary photographs, drawings, and costumes by Beaton to chronicle his impact on the city’s cultural life. Beaton’s relentless energy and curiosity spurred him to pursue new fields, from fashion and portrait photography to costume and scenic design for Broadway, ballet, and opera, and to put his own aesthetic stamp on each of these endeavors."" - from The Museum of the City of New York




Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

West 153rd Street, NYC

On Tuesday, Sonny Rollins will receive a Kennedy Center Honor. In today's New York Post, he says: "When I was about 14, I got everything Coleman Hawkins made on record. He was my idol. I went waiting for him one day — at his stoop — with my 8x10 glossy. I’d cased the place and knew he’d be coming home around that time. So he came in and there I was, and I asked him to sign it for me. It was great. I didn’t tell him I played — I was a little too shy.”

This is a photo of West 153rd Street, where Coleman Hawkins lived, as it is today.

Coming soon!

This is Cabbage Row, a revolutionary war era structure, which housed a tenement in the early 1900s. It was known locally as “Cabbage Row." The building was the setting for the novel, “Porgy,” by DuBose Heyward, and the location was named “Catfish Row” because the story was set on the waterfront.

Coming soon: Porgy and Bess

Thun, Switzerland

Jack Kerouac's house

This was the house, in Orlando, where Jack Kerouac lived.

Jazz!

I went today to see: Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray and Sam Shaw, at Jazz at Columbus Circle. It was a very interesting exhibit.

James Whitcomb Riley museum home

This is the James Whitcomb Riley museum home, located at 528 Lockerbie Street in Indianapolis, IN. The area is quite historic, lovely, and picturesque. And here is a link to more historic house museums in Indiana.

"The Dump"

This is the Margaret Mitchell house, located at 990 Peachtree Street NE in Atlanta, GA.

The Rubin Museum of Art

I went today to the Rubin Museum of Art to see Hero, Villain, Yeti. I enjoyed the exhibit very much!

Going Forward

This blog is becoming so yesterday! Please go to: marjorie-digest to read excellent interviews, view interesting photos, and to read some bittersweet poetry.

Thank-you.

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Picturing Marilyn

Coming soon!

The Mountaintop

And... this was great!

Relatively Speaking

Dead Sea Scrolls

Coming soon!

Dead Sea Scrolls

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe

Coming soon!

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe

Gettin' Their Freak On

I see my friends at BBB have been tawkin' me up in the underground COOP. I am flattered and honored. Let me guess the TOPIC. Could it be my recent tweets to the oh-so-special and shrine-worthy mods?

My chutzpah? Shocking!

It reminds me of these "Mavens!"

The Morgan Library

Charles Dickens at 200

Alfred Bryan (1852–1899). Caricature of Charles Dickens, [18--].

Gift of Miss Caroline Newton, 1974.1974.7

Photograph by Jeremiah Gurney, 1867

I also saw: David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre

Portrait of Guillaume Guillon Lethiere, (1815)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)

Portrait of a Boy

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)

de Kooning at MOMA

de Kooning: A Retrospective


Willem de Kooning. Pink Angels. c. 1945. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 52 x 40" (132.1 x 101.6 cm). Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The International Vintage Poster Fair

The International Vintage Poster Fair

The International Vintage Poster Fair Exhibitors

What did you do today?

I went to the National Academy Museum & School. I saw "Will Barnet at 100," and it is a marvelous exhibit.

From their website:
"In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, Will Barnet at 100 will explore the dialogue between figuration and abstraction that has defined Barnet’s remarkable 80-year career. A painter, printmaker and teacher who has worked largely outside the various schools of Modernism, Barnet has made significant and unique contributions to American art in the realms of both abstraction and figuration. Will Barnet at 100 will feature approximately 45 works from private and museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Montclair Art Museum, and the Neuberger Museum of Art."

Where did you go last week?

Downtown Photos

The Freedom Tower, awesome and thrilling


Ellis Island, at sunset



The Statue of Liberty, washed in pink watercolors



Little boats on the Hudson River, at sunset

Coming soon!

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

What did you do today?

I "sighted" Kim Kardashian having lunch with Jonathan Cheban at Cafeteria.





And I visited the architecturally glorious Jefferson Market Library.