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Arts and Culture

NYC Street Art: Eduardo Kobra’s Ellis Mural

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Covering the western-facing side of City-As-School in Manhattan’s West Village, Eduardo Kobra’s enormous Ellis mural is a riot of color, featuring five giant faces surrounded by the Brazilian artist’s signature geometric patterns in pink, purple, blue, yellow and green.

Created in 2018, the mural is Kobra’s tribute to the immigrant experience in New York and the millions of people who left their homelands in search of a new life. The five faces represent people of different ethnic backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of those who have made New York their home. Kobra says the work was inspired by New York’s long history as a destination for immigrants.
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Echoes of Arrival: Becoming Explores the Many Stories Behind Immigration

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What does it really mean to arrive somewhere new? For many immigrants, arrival is only the beginning. Echoes of Arrival: Becoming, a new iteration of the Museum of Chinese in America’s signature storytelling theater project, explores the complicated, often ongoing process of finding—and redefining—a sense of home.

Opening Friday, October 2nd at 7:00 PM, Echoes of Arrival: Becoming brings together seven immigrant performing artists with roots in Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. Through a combination of personal storytelling, music, and dance, the intimate performance looks at what happens after the initial act of migration: adapting to a new culture, navigating questions of identity and belonging, and figuring out which parts of your past to leave behind and which ones to carry forward.
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House and Home, Lifestyle

Building a Home Together in the UK: Tips for Newly Engaged Couples

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Getting engaged is a wonderful moment, and it often marks the start of a new chapter where real plans begin to take shape. For many couples, especially those living in different countries, this stage also brings a mix of excitement and practical questions.  If one of you is preparing to move to the UK so you can begin your life together, there is much to think about. You might be looking at areas to live in, thinking about how to set up your first home, or working out what needs to be organized before the big move. It can feel like a lot at once, but with the right guidance and a bit of planning, the journey can be much smoother. Continue reading Building a Home Together in the UK: Tips for Newly Engaged Couples →

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Miriam Cahn, The Beautiful Blue

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Swiss artist Miriam Cahn’s enigmatic painting The Beautiful Blue (Das Schone Blau, 2008 – 17) depicts two figures sinking underwater. The figures are painted loosely, blending with the tones of the water and evoking the vulnerability of the body.
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Dorothy Iannone’s I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door On The High Line

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Dorothy Iannone is a Berlin-based artist whose works focus on eroticism and the female sexual experience. Inspired by Egyptian frescoes, Byzantine mosaics, and ancient fertility statues, Iannone depicts the act of lovemaking not as an act of taboo, but rather as an act of spiritual union and transcendence. While now commonly lauded as transgressive and radical, her work, which often portrays her love affair with the late artist Dieter Roth, has been subject to frequent censorship since the 1960s. Iannone and Roth began creating work side-by-side after Iannone moved to Europe in 1967, and the two artists influenced each other’s works greatly for almost a decade. Overlooked for much of her career, Iannone’s magnetic and highly influential work finally began to receive widespread recognition in the late 2000s.

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