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Saturday, May 18 is International Museum Day

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day (IMD) in 1977 to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society. Every year, International Museum Day has a theme in order to promote museum … Continue reading →

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April Fools’ Day

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

 The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. –Mark Twain Aaron Siskind, Martha’s Vineyard, 1939 (894.2000) April Fools’ Day is celebrated as a prank day in many countries. In Italy, … Continue reading →

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Starchitects

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Ferenc Berko, Mies van der Rohe, 1948. (556.1993) Alfred Eisenstaedt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect, Taliesin, Wisconsin, 1956. (292.1989) Barbara Morgan, Le Corbusier in New York, 1946. (451.1987) Maria von Matthiessen, Philip Johnson in his office, 1986. (978.2000)

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Focus on Fashion: Coats

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

David Seidner, [Yves Saint Laurent], 1983 (2007.63.7) Louise Dahl-Wolf, Natalie in Grès coat, Kairouan, 1950 (82.1982) Alfred Eisenstaedt, A New York vacationer in Miami Beach, 1940 (331.1989) Martin Munkacsi, [Woman wearing Jaeger travel coat on wing of airplane], 1939 (2007.110.2267)

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When September Comes…

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

At the end of summer, the small ones are looking forward to the start the school! Meeting friends, discovering new things, sometimes misbehaving, starting daily activities, and many more things are just around the corner! Classes are starting, but students … Continue reading →

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Focus on Fashion: Hats

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Seeberger Frères, [Two Unidentified Women, Deauville, France], August 18, 1912 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Janet MacLeod wearing a black-eyed veil attached to a hat by Lilly Daché, New York City, 1937 LIFE, October 5, 1942 Jack Delano, Miss Selma Barbour, Manager of … Continue reading →

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Timeless (Cheap Imitation)

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

Weegee, It’s six o’clock in the morning on the electric clock on top of the Consolidated Edison Company building on Fourteenth Street… I think they have the clock up there to remind the customers to pay their bills, ca. 1945 … Continue reading →

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Not Knowing

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Weegee, [Model and photographer on the beach], ca. 1956 Lou Bernstein, Man in Suit, Panama Hat, Sleeping on Beach, 1957 Unidentified Photographer, [Unidentified Woman at "Beach"], ca. 1880 Alfred Eisenstaedt, A New York vacationer in Miami Beach, 1940 Danny Lyon, … Continue reading →

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Screen Sirens of the 1930s

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

Vu, October 23, 1929 Edward Steichen, Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood, 1931 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Katharine Hepburn, New York, 1938 George Hurrell, Joan Crawford, 1932 Martin Munkacsi, [Carole Lombard, Hollywood], 1937

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MEOW! Artists and Their Cats…

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Saul Steinberg, 1946 Robert Capa, [Henri Matisse in bed working, his black cat at his feet, (Cimiez) Nice, France], 1949 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life photographer Margaret Bourke-White with kitten, Darien, Connecticut, 1944

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