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Lifestyle, Nature and Tourism

Prairies, Peaks and Presidents: 7 Reasons To Visit South Dakota

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mount rushmore
Photo by Matthew Hernandez

Located right in the heart of North America, South Dakota is sometimes wrongly dismissed as a flyover state. However, it’s a place that is brimming with history and natural beauty. Below are just 7 reasons to consider a trip to the Mount Rushmore State.

See Mount Rushmore

Completed in 1941, Mount Rushmore is a 60ft sculpture carved directly into the face of a mountain, depicting the four iconic presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. It’s the most famous attraction in South Dakota, becoming a pilgrimage site for many Americans and attracting two million visitors each year. There are several places to stay near this monument .
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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Hank Willis Thomas, A Suspension of Hostilities

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a suspension of hostilities phot oby gail worley
All Photos By Gail

Hank Willis Thomas frequently repurposes imagery from popular culture, especially as it pertains to race and representation. A Suspension of Hostilities (2019 ) faithfully replicate the iconic muscle car from the 1980’s hit TV show The Dukes of Hazzard. Named the General Lee after Robert E. Lee, the car was famous for its airborne leaps along the hilly Georgia back roads, with the characters of Bo and Luke Duke at the wheel, typically in flight from the local law.
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Arts and Culture

Photography By Onejoon Che at the New Museum Triennial

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Heroes Acre
Heroes Acre (All Photos By Gail)

At the Surround Audience Triennial exhibit going on now at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, photos and sculptures by Korean artist Onejoon Che, a former military police photographer, explore the faux Soviet socialist-realist style of sculptures produced by a contemporary North Korean art studio specializing in the construction of massive public monuments in Africa. At once poignant and comic, these images touch upon military and economic geopolitics.

Onejoon Che

Onejoon Che

Arts and Culture

Herb Alpert’s Spirit Totem Monuments at Dante Park, Lincoln Center

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Herb Alpert Spirit Totems

Hey, remember back in January when I met music industry legend Herb Alpert? That was cool. In addition to his exhibit at ACA Galleries, Herb also has this public installation of three of his monumental, 16-foot Bronze Spirit Totem Statues installed at Dante Park, a triangular lot at the intersection of Broadway, Amsterdam and 65th Street, just in front of Lincoln Center.

Herb Alpert Spirit Totems Close Up

Hers a close up on one of the sculptures which I managed to crop most of the foot traffic out of.

Herb Alpert Spirit Totems Signage

Many passersby stopped to admire, pose with and photograph the sculptures, but I’d bet that most of them had no idea that Alpert is the talented artist behind this work, because the above identifying sign is mounted very high up on a pole, not really in the sight lines of a person just walking by on the street. Geoffrey and I just happened to recognize them as we walked to the 1 Train after checking out the Beatles Exhibit, because they looked just like the sculptures that we saw at his ACA Galleries exhibit earlier in the year.

The sculptures will be on display until April 15th, 2014.