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Saturday, March 05, 2016
Thursday, March 03, 2016
The Academy Awards have wrapped but Seat Fillers are now all across the country
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Art Hamptons Announces New Dates for 9th Edition (Bridgehampton, NY)
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Jacob Riis Photo Exhibit Opens April 14 (Washington,DC)
NEWS from the LIBRARY of CONGRESS
Exhibition on Jacob Riis, Pioneering Photographer, Journalist and Social Reformer, Opens April 14
The
life of Jacob Riis, a late-19th/early-20th century newspaper reporter
and writer, whose stories and photographs of the squalid conditions in
New York City’s tenements led to social reform, will be explored in a
new Library of Congress exhibition.
“Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives’” will open on Thursday, April 14 in
the South Gallery on the second level of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson
Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The exhibition is free
and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It closes on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
The
exhibition is a co-presentation of the Library of Congress and the
Museum of the City of New York. It combines items from the Library’s
Jacob A. Riis Papers and the museum’s Jacob A. Riis Collection of
photographs. Currently, the exhibition, under the title “Jacob A. Riis:
Revealing New York’s Other Half,” is on display until March 20 at the
Museum of the City of New York.
Riis
is one of the first to use innovations in documentary photography to
great effect. He experimented with new techniques of flash photography
and created rare images of tenement interiors, as well as outdoor
photos of street and city life. He used these pictures as a compelling
complement to his written words. Although he was well aware of the
power of photography, he did not consider himself a photographer.
The
Library’s exhibition repositions Riis as he saw himself—a highly
skilled communicator who devoted his life to writing articles and books,
delivering lectures nationwide and doggedly advocating for social
change. He brought attention to the crises in housing, education, crime
and poverty that arose at the height of European immigration to New
York City in the late-19th century. His crusading journalism led to
safer water, better housing, the creation of parks in New York City and
other reforms.
On
display will be correspondence, including three letters from Theodore
Roosevelt and one to Booker T. Washington; photographs; fire insurance
maps that help show the locations of Riis’ photographs; drafts and
published works; lecture notes; reviews of his lectures; family
correspondence and family photographs; appointment books; and journal
entries. The exhibition also will feature a lantern-slide projector and
camera equipment similar to those Riis used—a Blair Hawkeye Detective
camera (7 inches by 17 inches by 13 inches), a glass-plate holder and a
flash pan. An online version of the exhibition will be available on the
opening date at loc.gov/exhibits/.
Jacob
August Riis was born May 3, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark. The son of a
schoolmaster, he was educated locally, leaving school for work at age
15. He immigrated to the United States in 1870. The New York Tribune
hired him as a police reporter in 1877, and he wrote about crime and
disease, documenting life in the tenements. In 1888, he started working
for the New York Evening Sun and started taking photographs, using a
new German innovation, flash photography. It was a novel idea at the
time to use photographs to substantiate words. The wretched living and
working conditions of New York’s immigrant communities were made vivid
by the harrowing images, which were meant to spur his audiences to act.
His career as a reformer took shape. He worked at the Sun until 1899.
From the 1890s to 1910, he wrote many magazine articles and nine books
and lectured nationwide. He died on May 26, 1914.
The
exhibition has a companion volume, “Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s
Other Half,” written by Bonnie Yochelson, who spent more than two
decades researching Riis and assembling materials. The 336-page
hardcover book, published by Yale University Press in association with
the Library of Congress and the Museum of the City of New York, is the
first comprehensive study and complete catalogue of Riis’ images. The
book contains more than 600 images and is available for $65 in the
Library of Congress Shop in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Credit-card
orders are taken at (888) 682-3557 or loc.gov/shop/.
The
exhibition and its programming at the Library of Congress are made
possible through the generous support from the Library of Congress Third
Century Fund; Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik’s Foundation; the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Danish Ministry of Culture, and
the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces; the Royal Danish Embassy; and
the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Later
this year, other versions of the exhibition—combining Library of
Congress and Museum of the City of New York resources with additional
Riis-related objects—will be presented in Denmark. The first will be at
the Kunstforeningen GL Strand museum in Copenhagen from Oct. 1, 2016 to
Jan. 8, 2017, and the second at the Ribe Kunstmuseum in Riis’s home
town of Ribe, Denmark, from Jan. 21, 2017 to May 14, 2017.
The
Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress acquired the Jacob A.
Riis Papers in the early 1950s as a gift of Riis’ second wife and widow,
Mary Phillips Riis (1877-1967), who was a longtime social welfare
advocate and board member of the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement
in New York. Additions have been made by generations of the Riis
family, including Jacob Riis Owre, Ruth Riis Jones, Oscar T. Owre and
Martha Riis Moore. The Manuscript Division also holds the papers of
Jacob Riis’s son, Roger William Riis (1894-1953), an author and editor.
That collection contains family correspondence and other materials
gifted by Riis family members Jacob Riis Owre and Martha Riis Moore.
The
Library’s Manuscript Division holds more than 70 million items,
including the papers of 23 U.S. presidents, from George Washington to
Calvin Coolidge. For more information about the collections and
holdings of the Manuscript Division, visit loc.gov/rr/mss/.
The
Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, holds more than
162 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The
Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its
reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its website at loc.gov.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Macy's Free Annual Flower Show Returns to Celebrate America the Beautiful (Chicago,IL)
MACY’S FLOWER SHOW® PRESENTS AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Macy’s on State Street offers a FREE Floral Spectacular inspired by
landscapes of the nation’s distinct regions
“Our
annual celebration of Spring this year will take us on a journey
through our own backyards, one that is rich with magnificent landscapes
that evolve from
desert to tropics and everything in between,” said Mike Gansmoe,
executive producer of Macy’s Flower Show. “America the Beautiful, this
year’s theme, will give spectators the incredibly unique opportunity to
experience highlights of the varied natural landscapes
found in our nation, all at one location, blooming in unison.”
For
more than 20 years, Macy’s Flower Show has delighted generations of
floral aficionados with extravagant presentations of gardens that
showcase thousands
of live flowers, plants and trees. Taking root in the 9th
Floor Event Center of Macy’s on State Street, the gardens are planted
into specially designed architecture and full-scale presentations. This
year, spectators will be welcomed by a unique
floral interpretation of Lady Liberty’s iconic torch, which will serve
as the centerpiece of the exhibitions.
In
addition to marking the official celebration for the start of the spring
season, Macy’s Flower Show also features participation from some of the
Chicago’s top floral designers. A rotating list of stars
will create the fan favorite “Bouquet of the Day”, an extravagant
centerpiece uniquely fashioned by each designer to interpret the show’s
America the Beautiful theme in their own aesthetic.
New
this year, the Macy’s Flower Show welcomes spectators to take a
personal tour through the show with a unique audio experience, available
to stream on any
device by visiting www.macys.com/flowershowaudio
.
Free to the public, Macy’s Flower Show will be open during regular store hours.
Regional Gardens
Macy’s
Flower Show “America the Beautiful” celebrates the splendor of the
nation from coast to coast with stunning regional gardens listed below:
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All American Garden
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Nation’s Capital
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Midwest
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Rocky Mountains
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Pacific Northwest
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Northeast
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Southeast
o
Southwest
Events and Tours
Macy’s Flower Show is also the perfect backdrop for two weeks of free in-store special events,
where guests can learn how to build a
terrarium, create glass mosaic art, learn to cook with celebrity chef,
Michelle Bernstein, and more.
A full listing of events can be found at
www.macys.com/flowershow
.
A Macy’s
Flower Show and History Tour will be offered on Friday, March 25 and
April 1 at 11:30 a.m. The tour is 60 minutes in length, costs $12 per
person
and includes history of the State Street building including the
breathtaking Tiffany vaulted ceiling, the graceful Burnham fountain, the
world-renowned Walnut Room restaurant, and of course, a walk through
the annual Flower Show. Private tours for groups
of 10 or more are available with a 1-week advance reservation. Contact
the Visitor Information Center for details, 312.781.4483 or
visitmacys.chicago@macys.com.
Macy’s Walnut Room and Wine Bar
Macy’s
Walnut Room and Wine Bar are celebrating Macy’s Flower Show by offering
specialty cocktails and wine flights. The Walnut Room will feature an
artistic grand floral centerpiece sure to help set the
mood while sipping on a Hibiscus Mojito, Birds of Paradise, Blackberry
Fizz, Hibiscus Tea, Mint Julep, or Blackberry Rosehip Bramble.
Sponsors
Macy’s floral spring tradition is made possible nationally thanks to partners including Girl Scouts of the United States of
America, Homewood Suites by Hilton®,
Krazy Glue®, Royal Caribbean International®, and Sinclair Oil.
For additional information about the Flower Show at Macy’s on State Street, visit
www.macys.com/flowershow
. To continue the conversation on social media, please use #MacysFlowerShow.
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