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Articles with keyword "New York City"

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

The early disputatious days of American movies.

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Editor's Note, March/April 2013

Scorsese blurs the line between entertainment and art.

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The Passing City

Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York.

Guastavino vaulted staircase, 1914

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Vaulting Ambition

The artful masonry of Rafael Guastavino rediscovered.

Broadway from Fulton Street, 1890.

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The City That Never Slept

—From “Mapping Time” by Peter Baldwin. Published in Common-Place, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005). Printed by permission.

View through a bench in Central Park.

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Public Parking

Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.

Sara Ogger

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In Focus: New York's Sara Ogger

New York's Sara Ogger looks out her window and beyond the city.

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Good Stable Manners

In Ancient Rome and Modern America, NEH-funded scholar Margaret Malamud looks at the ways visions of the imperial city have been incorporated into everything from the Constitution to Caes

Image of choreographer Jerome Robbins rehearsing dancers.

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Dancing American

Jerome Robbins built a new style from classical and modern parts.

Image of poster from Lincoln Centennial

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Lincoln’s Centennial

The year was marked by adulation.