Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...Buffalo at least, things may be starting to change. After Cynthia Wiggins' death, most citizens declared themselves to be horrified and shamed by the mall's policies. Perhaps because of a threatened boycott by the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and the Buffalo Teachers Federation, the Galleria and two other local malls all quickly agreed to put city bus stops on their property. The No. 6 now has a convenient stop in front of Kaufmann's, just a few steps from Arthur Treacher's. But Cynthia Wiggins will never...
...ACCEPTed epic subject of American painting was the Western frontier. By 1900 this had slid into nostalgia; it was no longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive...
...painters who reported on it were nicknamed the Ashcan School by a critic in the 1930s, and the label has stuck. They were Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Everett Shinn, William Glackens and George Bellows, and among them they created the first art of urban America. The current show at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York," is a fine introduction to their work...
...wash, lovers furtively embracing on the tenement roof. And though his vision was less flamboyant than Henri's or Bellows', he clearly had a deep effect on younger painters like Reginald Marsh and Hopper. His moments of voyeuristic detachment were amplified in Hopper's glimpses of disconnected urban souls seen through windows. One wants to see more of Sloan; when will some American museum give him the retrospective he deserves...