Word: brooklyn
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Robbins, who was arrested in January after peacefully taking over a News editorial room in Brooklyn, said the demonstration planned for Harvard Square was part of a nation-wide effort by strikers to protest operations of the Tribune Comapny, the parent company of the Daily News...
...which includes artists of very different periods, outlooks and media. Ranging from European to American artists, Renaissance to modern works, the show includes such notable pieces as a 15th-century German Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Canaletto's Imaginary View of Padua and Joseph Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge...
...works which encourage the audience to reevaluate its perception of New York City, the definitive city, are Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge and Edward Hopper's Manhattan Bridge. The spirit in which the artists view the city differs significantly. Stella's work presents the city as dynamic and energetic. The viewer stands at the end of the bridge, staring down its length, which narrows dramatically. The line, straight and bold, and color, electric blue and black, contribute to the powerful impact of the metropolitan bridge. Fast-paced and frightening in its resolute path, Stella's work represents...
Last year the German government reasserted its ownership, setting off a legal battle. Now it has decided to settle the dispute and pay the heirs $1 million to recoup the artworks. Several museum curators criticized the decision. Robert T. Buck, director of the Brooklyn Museum, told the New York Times, "The timing is horrible as a lesson to every American G.I. There's a . lot of art over there in Iraq." Klaus Maurice of the Cultural Foundation of the States in Germany, defended the deal his agency made. "Had we pursued the lawsuit," he argued, "the legal fees would have...
Garbage, a Brooklyn-based bimonthly that has increased its circulation 50%, to 150,000, in its first year of publication, generally limits its advocacy to environmental consumerism. Articles focus on practical topics like designing kitchens for recycling and gardening without pesticides. Publisher Patricia Poore says she provides "tips and tools" for readers who "want to get off the consume-it, then trash-it treadmill." E, a bimonthly based in Norwalk, Conn., publishes a mixture of opinion and news articles and openly encourages political activism. At the end of a story about whale hunting, for instance, readers are invited to lobby...