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...Nowhere has that fond rivalry been more evident than in the field of design. "Paris/New York," a dense, imaginative exhibit running at the Museum of the City of New York until Feb. 22, focuses on 1925-40 - the bright, anodized moment when Paris and New York were forging new ways of looking good. That was when Paris invented Art Deco (and New York improved on it), New York was alive with a new sound called jazz (and Paris went crazy over it) and Paris dominated haute couture (while New York industrialized it). "Let's work together," enjoined the French architect...
...Various 1920s and '30s New York high-rises are represented in photos, ironwork and hunks of decoration - especially Rockefeller Center, the 22-acre (nine hectare) living museum of Art Deco that lies 52 blocks due south of the exhibit. The French government, not coincidentally, was one of the center's first tenants. Indeed, France fell in love with the skyscraper, and the show includes plans for (mercifully unbuilt) Parisian versions that somehow lacked the energy of their New York counterparts...
...many, art is an area in which individualism is exalted and freedom of expression is glorified, but to define art as such would be to take artistic freedom for granted. “The Art of Subversion: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union,” an exhibit at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies running until Jan. 22, showcases artists that struggled to uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task...
...Once and Present Future. The Museum of the City of New York has the exhibit Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson - black-and-white pictures of razed sections of New York City, taken between 1982 and 1984, depicting the aftermath of the last economic crisis, in the 1970s. Through March 8, 2009. 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, New York...
...study concluded that although college students exhibit a much greater dependency on alcohol than their comparison group, they are less likely to be diagnosed as drug-abusive, nicotine dependent, or bipolar...