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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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Coloring books for adults are enjoying a boom-time, but a similar pattern book craze took off as far back as the Renaissance. But rather than just filling in the blanks, the pattern books'...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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Pioneering New York photojournalist Jacob Riis shocked the Gilded Age elite by shooting the squalid lives of the poor, and now a new exhibition shows that his work is still...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
TopDog |
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The beauty and diversity of ocean life is showcased at a new exhibition of vintage illustrations – some dating back more than 400 years. Opulent Oceans – which even includes...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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Jill Freedman is famous for photographing the freaks, the lost, and the lonely of New York City – and an exhibition of her vintage prints shows just how keen her eye for tragedy is...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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The creators of a new Ernest Hemingway exhibition claim that they want to humanize the larger-than-life author. Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars at the Morgan Library & Museum is the...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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Free movie shows that can only be viewed through a peephole in the street have been delighting New Yorkers. The Peephole Cinema - which...
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9 years ago |
About, Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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A renowned collage queen has revealed how not to get caught doing New York street art. Astrodub – also known as Angeliki Jackson - has boldly taken her...
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9 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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These stunning old Manhattan photos look like they were shot 120 years ago – but amazingly they were created in the present day. Taken by artist Jefferson Hayman, the shots are...
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10 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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Considered to be one of the best apartment blocks in the city, Hotel des Artistes has housed such famous faces as Rudolf Valentino, Noel Coward and Norman Rockwell – but it has never been...
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10 years ago |
Culture, Vintage |
Boo Paterson |
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The Chrysler Building, considered by many to be the most beautiful work of architecture ever constructed, is 85 years old today. The Art Deco jewel was – at 1046ft – declared the...
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Eighty years after Prohibition ended, Manhattan’s secret speakeasies are still dishing out high times and hard liquor. Buy the book for the inside scoop on the best in the city…and directions to their hidden doorways.
