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Arts and Culture

AKC Museum of The Dog Announces Salute to Search and Rescue Dogs Art Contest

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akc top dogs exhibit installation view
All Images From Top Dogs Exhibit (Courtesy of AKC Museum of The Dog)

This September will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In commemoration, the AKC and Museum of the Dog will honor the Search and Rescue Dogs that participated in the 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts  by sponsoring an art contest for which everyone is encouraged to participate, no matter your age or artistic ability.

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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Porsche 911 Coupe, 1965

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porsche 911 coupe photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

Designed by Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche (1935 – 2012), grandson of the Volkswagen Beetle’s creator, the 911 (this model circa 1965) rivals its forebear as an icon of German automotive engineering.

porsche 911 photo by gail worley

A close examination reveals traits inherited from previous Porsche cars, including the raised round headlights and rear-mounted, air-cooled engine. Larger and specifically faster than its immediate predecessor, the Porsche 365, and the Beetle, the 911 in the most successful competition car ever mass produced.

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Army of One Memorial Mural, First Street Green, NYC

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Army of One Mural
Photos By Gail

This wall mural, located at the First Street Green Art Park, in NYC’s east village pays tribute to the late firefighter and street artist Jef Campion, aka Army of One. Continue reading Army of One Memorial Mural, First Street Green, NYC →

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Everyday Heroes NYC By Alexander Millar

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High and Mighty, 2018  (All Photos By Gail)

Following a five-day preview run, ideally located at the New York City Fire Museum on Spring Street, artist Alexander Millar’s firefighter portrait series, Everyday Heroes NYC moves on to a two-week run in a popular pop up space in SoHo. Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, but now living in the north of England, Millar is a self-taught contemporary impressionist with a particular interest in late 19th and early 20th century blue collar workers. Continue reading Everyday Heroes NYC By Alexander Millar →

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Laura Poitras, Astro Noise at The Whitney Museum

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ANARCHIST: Israeli Drone Video Signal, 2016, by Laura Poitras (All Photos By Gail)

Laura Poitras wants you to know that you are under surveillance at all times. At all times. The artist, journalist and documentary filmmaker, who won the 2015 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Citizenfour, the story of Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Scandal, has her first solo museum show opening at the Whitney Museum on Friday, February 5th, and it is an immersive, installation-based exhibit unlike anything I’ve seen previously. The show’s title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang, which is also the name that Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the NSA that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

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