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  • SS United States : Crystal Cruises Planning Return of Historic Transatlantic Liner - gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/crystal-cruises-purchases-historic-ss-united-states

    A major development today in the ongoing saga to save the SS United States from a trip the scrapyard.

    Los Angeles-based Crystal Cruises says it has signed a purchase option for the historic – yet weathered – transatlantic steam ship with the plan to refurbish the vessel and return it to oceangoing service as a modern luxury cruise ship.

    The announcement was made Thursday by Crystal Cruises together with the SS United States Conservancy preservation group at a press conference at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal in New York City.

    Crystal says its goal is to bring the ship into compliance with the latest environmental and safety standards, returning her to full oceangoing service. In doing so, the company has agreed to cover all costs associated with preserving the ship while undertaking a technical feasibility study, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
    […]
    The SS United States was launched in 1952 for United States Lines at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The ship quickly made a name for itself, capturing the transatlantic speed record on her maiden voyage – a record that still holds to this day. Not only was the vessel designed for luxurious transatlantic service, the steam ship was built so that it could easily be re-purposed into a naval troop transport in the event of a war, with the ability to carry 15,000 troops and a 240,000 shaft horsepower propulsion plant capable of traveling 10,000 nautical miles without refueling.

    The ship was taken out of service suddenly in 1969, but remained part of the U.S. Navy’s reserve fleet until 1978 when the Navy decided to sell the vessel to a private owner. Since then, the SS United States has passed from owner to owner. In 2003 the ship ended up in the hands of Norwegian Cruise Lines, which had plans refurbish the ship and return her to service with the company’s American-flagged cruise service. But the plans fell through with the 2008 financial crisis, and the vessel was again listed for sale a year later.

  • Crane collapse kills one in New York City / Boing Boing
    http://boingboing.net/2016/02/05/crane-collapse-kills-one-in-ne.html

    the collapse happened as crews were lowering the crane into a secure position because wind speeds were above 20 mph.

    The collapsed red boom of the mobile crane landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block after the accident, which occurred around 8:25 a.m. in the Tribeca neighborhood, about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.

    #USA #sécurité

  • Négrillonsgate - Benjamin Millepied démissionne de ses fonctions de directeur de la danse à l’Opéra de Paris

    Dans la foulée de ces déclarations, Benjamin Millepied aurait eu une « explication » avec les danseuses de La Bayadère. Tenir les rênes de 154 interprètes n’est pas une mince affaire. Depuis quelques mois, les sujets de discussions, voire de polémiques, étaient variés. Désir de casser la hiérarchie, qui sert de colonne vertébrale à la troupe ; valorisation de sa « dream team », petit groupe de jeunes danseurs choisis dans le corps de ballet ; à l’inverse, « oubli » des étoiles, peu distribuées, voire reléguées ; déboulonnage de castings le soir de la générale… Toujours à propos de La Bayadère, ballet du XIXe siècle dont l’exotisme est raccord avec l’époque coloniale, Benjamin Millepied a rebaptisé la « danse des négrillons » « danse des enfants », et refusé que les jeunes danseurs de l’école de l’Opéra national de Paris soient, comme à l’habitude, maquillés en noir. Une décision qui a suscité quelques remous, entre autres, sur les réseaux sociaux.
    La couleur à l’américaine de Benjamin Millepied, ancien danseur du New York City Ballet, a-t-elle eu du mal à prendre sur la palette française ?

    Why is ballet still blacking up ?
    http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2007/aug/03/whyisballetstillblackingu

    Décryptage – La Bayadère de Rudolf Noureev en six variations

    Le deuxième acte de La Bayadère, comme les danses arabes et chinoises de Casse-Noisette, dérange par son racisme omniprésent. Il ne suffit pas, ce que Benjamin Millepied a décidé de faire pour la production de 2015, de renommer la danse des négrillons « danse des enfants », ni de cesser de les brunir, pour effacer ce que ce ballet a de profondément gênant. Il se fait le témoin du goût du XIXème siècle pour l’exotisme oriental, et de tout ce que l’imaginaire (en grande partie inconscient) russe et occidental colporte de clichés à propos de « l’étranger de couleur »... Jusque dans ses productions artistiques plus récentes, car La Bayadère ne résonne pas seulement avec les grands opéras et œuvres littéraires d’il y a deux siècles, mais aussi avec certaines superproductions hollywoodiennes, ou encore avec des dessins animés Disney. Il est encore plus difficile de mettre en scène notre distance contemporaine avec une chorégraphie qu’avec un texte de théâtre. Au moins voir La Bayadère peut-il avoir un effet cathartique, en nous faisant réfléchir sur les clichés racistes qui ont cessé d’être les nôtres, et sur ceux qui meuvent encore notre imagination.

    http://www.dansesaveclaplume.com/en-coulisse/35870-decryptage-la-bayadere-de-rudolf-noureev-en-six-variations

    #blackface #france

  • Top Hillary Clinton PAC Donation Amounts to 222,000 Bernie Sanders Donations
    https://theintercept.com/2016/02/01/top-hillary-clinton-pac-donation-amounts-to-222000-bernie-sanders-dona

    For example, billionaire George Soros gave $6 million to the pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC Priorities USA last quarter. By comparison, the average donation to the Bernie Sanders campaign — the only one mostly funded through small donors — was $26.28, according to a spokesperson for the campaign.

    That means Soros gave as much money as a small city’s worth of small donors — 222,000 people, slightly larger than the population of Des Moines.

    The $3 million that pro-Israel billionaire power couple Haim and Cheryl Saban gave is equivalent to about 185,000 Sanders donations, or a bit more than the population of Boulder.

    Former AIG chief Hank Greenberg gave $10 million to Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise Super PAC through his company, C.V. Starr. That’s 370,000 average Sanders donations — almost the population of New Orleans.

    All of this could pale compared to the general election. The Koch-backed networks of political organizations reportedly plan to spend up to $900 million on the 2016 election; that’s 33 million small donors averaging $27 a pop. If every resident of Shanghai and New York City wrote a check for that amount, they still would not match the Kochs.

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  • How The Hypersexual Trans Movement Hurts Feminism
    http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/03/how-the-hypersexual-trans-movement-hurts-feminism

    A central theme of modern, or third-wave feminism is that women should not be treated merely as sexual objects. A central theme of the trans movement is the presentation of trans women as hypersexual objects. Feminism is not big enough for both of these themes. Either being a woman is essentially defined as being alluring to men, or it isn’t. Either the playboy bunny defines the essence of womanhood, or it doesn’t. At the moment, the trans movement opposes more than a century of feminism on this point. Third-wave feminists, in their eagerness to be allies, have abandoned this basic tenet. It must be reclaimed.

    How have we arrived at a point in which feminists fundamentally alter their definition of womanhood to accommodate men? Last year, Laverne Cox became the first trans woman on the cover of Time magazine. It was a glamour shot—a slinky blue dress, long blonde hair, and a come-hither look. Not to be outdone, the former Bruce Jenner introduced his new gender to the world this week on the cover of Vanity Fair in a bit of white lingerie, also with that come-hither look. Should feminists really be chanting, “This is what a real woman looks like?” Are we sure?

    What exactly does a trans woman think it means to feel like a woman? When a person identifies as female, what is being defined as female? Is it the breasts? Lips? Ass? Slim waist? Small hands? Batting eyelashes? Flirtatious smile? Long hair? Finger-nail polish? Eyeliner? Lipstick? Submissiveness? Thighs? Heels? Demureness? A want to be taken care of? A want to be adored? Cat-called? Beautified? Idealized? Softness? Quietness? Is there some feeling inherent to the placement of ovaries, other than monthly cramps and bleeding, that can be attributed to a feeling of femaleness?
    Don’t Objectify Women

    These supposed and stereotypical traits, while traditionally identified as feminine, are not innate to females—as the trans movement shows us. Men can feel feminine, too, women can feel masculine. These societally defined traits of sex do not define a sex. Feminists have been fighting for decades, since the suffragettes, to vocalize the non-feminineness of females. We can vote, we can fight, we can wear pants and flats, we can boss a whole room of employees without demurring. To allow the trans movement to objectify women is to accept the oppression of the female sex by the male sex, and to further accept male definitions of what it is to be female.
    To allow the trans movement to objectify women is to accept the oppression of the female sex by the male sex.

    There is nothing inherently female about long hair, dresses, and make-up. All of those things have been characteristic of the male gender at some point in history. Just look at the French, who have seen their men in heels, long hair, long nails, and powder. There is nothing male about pants, muscles, and short hair. Just ask Rosie the Riveter. The social constructs of feminine and masculine are totally up for grabs, and that’s fine, but a masculine woman is still a woman, and there’s nothing wrong with that, or with that woman living however she wants to. The same goes for feminine men.

    The problem here is how Annie Leibowitz and Vanity Fair set about showing us that Jenner is truly a woman. They did it by painting precisely the pinup we teach our daughters to reject as their central aspiration. The sexual objectification of trans women is used as proof of their womanness, but the sexual objectification of non-trans women is considered demeaning because it associates their primary worth in relation to male desire. Being oppressed by men is being oppressed by men, even if those men are wearing dresses.
    Women Are More than Dresses and Breasts

    Some argue this is just the media being the media, and of course Jenner is being objectified; that’s the price of being a woman in our misogynist society. But this take gets the facts wrong. It’s the trans movement, not the media, that insists that people with gender dysphoria must present themselves physically as their actual gender, not the one they were assigned. They argue it isn’t a choice. But this literally defines being a woman as having physical attributes attractive to men. Jenner didn’t get surgery to have the breasts of the average 65-year-old woman.
    Jenner’s choices are not a justification for the rest of us to embrace gender stereotypes that women have been fighting against for centuries.

    As an athlete, Jenner was capable of pushing his endurance to the limit, and perhaps that endurance, that willpower, is what is pushing Jenner here, through what must be remarkable psychic and physical stress. Now, as an older man in the process of becoming a menopausal woman, Jenner is free to continue testing the limits of his mind and body, and get sexy on magazine covers. But that is not a justification for the rest of us to embrace gender stereotypes that women who have believed in gender equality have been fighting against for centuries.

    These carpet-baggers to womanhood are trying to prove to all of us that what it really means to be a woman is to pose in a playboy bunny outfit and make kissy faces at men. They reinforce this idea to teenage girls: go put on the miniskirt, honey, celebrate Jenner’s beauty, and try to exemplify it in your own life. Make sure the boys think you’re pretty. And also make sure to recognize and check your privilege as a person whose womanhood, unlike Jenner’s, is never questioned. You don’t even have to fight for it.
    Bruce Jenner Is Parodying Women

    As Jenner accepts the Arthur Asche ESPY award for courage, our daughters and sons are being asked to think of Caitlyn in the way we used to think of Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. What Jenner is doing in this PR-driven, reality-show-style reveal may or may not be courageous, but it is not empowering to women. It is rather, to quote Germaine Greer, “a ghastly parody.”

    In a noble attempt to be empathetic to confused and vulnerable people, third-wave feminists have sold out their progenitors. By accepting the notion that gender is merely a social construct they have hollowed out the very ground upon which their sisters of old marched. Being a woman is what Kant called a “ding an sich,” a thing in itself. It is a biological reality, it is powerful, and important and underrepresented and often underappreciated, but it’s a real thing. It’s not someone who was once a man living out a Victoria Secret model fantasy. And anyone who calls themself a feminist should know that.
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    Libby Emmons is a writer and theater maker in New York City. Follow her @li88yinc. David Marcus is a senior contributor to The Federalist, who also works in the New York City theater world.

  • A Musical Map of New York City - WSJ.com

    http://graphics.wsj.com/nyc-jukebox-map

    With jukeboxes now Internet-enabled and app-accessible to vast song libraries, it’s possible to create a visual map of the tunes New Yorkers seek out, by location.

    TouchTunes, a New York-based e-jukebox vendor that serves more than 70,000 businesses in the U.S. and Europe shared data from over 500 publicly-accessible city venues with The Wall Street Journal, for the year ended February 2015. The mix of songs can largely depend on the number of these jukeboxes—and the type of place that hosts them—in each area.

    Out of thousands of songs available on these high-tech jukeboxes, here are the top 10 songs and artists for each New York City ZIP Code.

    #new_york #musique #cartographie_interactive

  • Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
    http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain
    Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain?

    That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website.

    No permission required. No restrictions on use.

    Below you’ll find tools, projects, and explorations designed to inspire your own creations—go forth and reuse!


    Jo - Italian track-walker on Pennsylvania Railroad, near New York City, 1930
    Photo Lewis Hine

    #photographie

  • Ingenious: Rachel Yehuda - Issue 31: Stress
    http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/ingenious-rachel-yehuda

    Although post-traumatic stress disorder is an established diagnosis in psychology, and stressed combat veterans are a cliché in Hollywood, it wasn’t long ago when PTSD wasn’t well understood at all. “There was a time when our lack of knowledge about post-traumatic stress disorder was really harmful and resulted in the fact that a lot of people did not get treated or treated properly by the healthcare system,” says Rachel Yehuda. In the past 25 years, Yehuda has done as much as any scientist to understand the debilitating disorder. Yehuda, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, is the director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She has worked with war veterans, Holocaust survivors, and other trauma victims to gather insights (...)

  • New York City is sued over salt warnings on restaurant menus | Reuters
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-salt-lawsuit-idUSKBN0TN02820151204

    A restaurant industry trade group is suing New York City’s Board of Health to stop it from enforcing a new rule requiring many chain restaurants to post warnings on menu items that are high in sodium.

    The National Restaurant Association said on Thursday the Board of Health unfairly burdened restaurant owners and usurped the power of the popularly elected City Council by forcing restaurants with more than 15 locations nationwide to warn diners about salty foods.

    Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium, the daily limit many nutritionists recommend.

  • NYC Artists Endorse Cultural Boycott of Israel at Brooklyn Event
    http://blog.palestine-studies.org/2015/12/01/artists-endorse-cultural-boycott-of-israel-at-brooklyn-event

    On a chilly New York City night, roughly 400 mostly young people crowded into the offices of the progressive publishing house, Verso Books, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo. With its avant-garde vibe, the space was the perfect site for Adalah-NY’s “Palestine Calling,” billed as a launch party "to amplify the cultural boycott of Israel… Source: Palestine Square

  • Why Is “Survivor” Still on Television? - Facts So Romantic
    http://nautil.us/blog/why-is-survivor-still-on-television

    I Will survive: A contestant poses at the ‘Survivor: South Pacific’ Finale & Reunion at CBS Television City on December 18, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The survival of ‘Survivor’ into the present day is, among other things, a psychological curiosity worth investigating.Mark Davis/Getty Images Exactly four months and thirty-one days into what was, at that time, still being called “The New Millennium,” CBS aired the first-ever episode of Survivor. Bill Clinton was still in office, the NASDAQ Composite Index had just peaked at 5,048, and the twin towers still stood in New York City. Since then America has seen two wars, two presidents, an economic recession, the rise of the smartphone, the death of Boy Bands, and thirty more seasons of Survivor. Since its inception, the show has (...)

  • Reimagining Journalism: The Story of the One Percent by Michael Massing | The New York Review of Books
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/dec/17/reimagining-journalism-story-one-percent

    Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who has contributed millions of dollars to Republican causes and recently endorsed Marco Rubio for president, with DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin at a conference in New York City, December 2014

    Even amid the outpouring of coverage of rising income inequality, however, the richest Americans have remained largely hidden from view. On all sides, billionaires are shaping policy, influencing opinion, promoting favorite causes, polishing their images—and carefully shielding themselves from scrutiny. Journalists have largely let them get away with it. News organizations need to find new ways to lift the veil off the superrich and lay bare their power and influence. Digital technology, with its flexibility, speed, boundless capacity, and ease of interactivity, seems ideally suited to this task, but only if it’s used more creatively than it has been to date.

    Consider, for instance, DealBook, the online daily financial report of The #New_York_Times. It has a staff of twelve reporters plus a half-dozen columnists covering investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, and regulatory matters. Every day, DealBook posts a dozen or so pieces on the Times website, some of which also appear in the print edition, making it seem a good vehicle for showing how #Wall_Street really works.

    Unfortunately, it only intermittently delivers. Most DealBook postings are narrowly framed, with a heavy emphasis on CEO comings and goings, earnings and expectations, buyouts and IPOs. Some sample headlines: “BB&T Is New Deal-Making Powerhouse in Banking.” “Investors Hope to Ride Swell of SoulCycle Fever in Coming IPO.” “Dell Is the Straw That Stirs Tech M&A.” “Strong Profit for Bank of America, and Investors See Signs of Progress.” Some pieces veer into outright boosterism. A long feature on “How Jonathan Steinberg Made Good on a Second Chance,” for instance, described in admiring detail how this mogul, through a combination of pluck and savvy, built his asset management firm into “one of the fastest-growing fund companies around.”

    DealBook’s founder and editor, Andrew Ross Sorkin, is known for his closeness to Wall Street executives (many of whom serve as sources of information), and it often shows in his weekly column. [...]

    #faillite des #médias #MSM

  • Who owns our cities – and why this urban takeover should concern us all | Cities | The Guardian

    http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/24/who-owns-our-cities-and-why-this-urban-takeover-should-concern-us-all

    Does the massive foreign and national corporate buying of urban buildings and land that took off after the 2008 crisis signal an emergent new phase in major cities? From mid-2013 to mid-2014, corporate buying of existing properties exceeded $600bn (£395bn) in the top 100 recipient cities, and $1trillion a year later – and this figure includes only major acquisitions (eg. a minimum of $5m in the case of New York City).

    #urban_matter #villes #agglomérations

    I want to examine the details of this large corporate investment surge, and why it matters. Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a history and a culture, thereby making their powerlessness complex. If the current large-scale buying continues, we will lose this type of making that has given our cities their cosmopolitanism.

  • • Raw Photographs Capture the East Village During the Heroin Epidemic of the 1980s - Ken Schles
    http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/03/raw-photographs-capture-the-east-village-during-the-heroin-epidemic-of

    When New York City-based photographer Ken Schles lived in the East Village in the 1980s, the neighborhood was, in his words, “like a war zone.” He moved to the area in 1978 at the age of seventeen, and on the other side of the 1980s, he would emerge from the wreckage of the heroin epidemic, the AIDS crisis, and abandoned apartment buildings with his book Invisible City, a time capsule of sorts excavated from a city that no longer exists.

    #photographie #New_York #Schles

  • How to Solve the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Issue 30: Identity
    http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-to-solve-the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever

    While a doctoral student at Princeton University in 1957, studying under a founder of theoretical computer science, Raymond Smullyan would occasionally visit New York City. On one of these visits, he met a “very charming lady musician” and, on their first date, Smullyan, an incorrigible flirt, proceeded very logically—and sneakily. “Would you please do me a favor?” he asked her. “I am to make a statement. If the statement is true, would you give me your autograph?” Content to play along, she replied, “I don’t see why not.” “If the statement is false,” he went on, “you don’t give me your autograph.” “Alright …” His statement was: “You’ll give me neither your autograph nor a kiss.” It takes a moment, but the cleverness of Smullyan’s ploy eventually becomes clear. A truthful statement gets him her (...)

  • “Half the houses will be demolished within 20 years”: On the disposable cities of China - By Wade Shepard
    http://www.citymetric.com/skylines/half-houses-will-be-demolished-within-20-years-disposable-cities-china-1

    According to the Ministry of Housing & Urban-Rural Development, almost every structure built before 1999, roughly half of the current housing supply, is set to meet the sledgehammer at some point over the next 20 years.

    New houses are built almost as quickly as the old ones are cleared away: upwards of 129m new homes have been built in China over the past 30 years. Each year that passes sees roughly 2,000km2 of floor space – enough to cover New York City one and a half times – built across the country.

    But it would be a mistake to think that China is simply upgrading its housing stock to meet modern standards, and will stop and be satisfied once this is done. No, even the buildings that are being built today will hardly last out this generation. Qiu Baoxing, the former vice-minister of China’s Housing & Urban-Rural Development ministry, estimated that new buildings going up in China today will only stand for 25 to 30 years before being demolished. Li Dexiang of Tsinghua University told the China Daily that “what we see nowadays is the blind demolition of relatively new buildings, some of which have only been standing for less than 10 years”.

    #obsolescence #Chine #urbanisation

  • LAPD backs NYPD boycott of Quentin #Tarantino films
    http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lapd-backs-nypd-boycott-quentin-tarantino-films

    http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/ap192379229439_copy_0.jpg?itok=F9M0Lj1M

    The Los Angeles Police Protective League has come out in support of a call for a boycott of the “Pulp Fiction” director’s films after he appeared in an anti-police brutality protest organized by RiseUpOctober on Saturday in New York City. “I’m a human being with a conscience,” he said at the time. “If you believe there’s murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I’m here to say I’m on the side of the murdered.”

    Tarantino’s use of the word “murder” led to a backlash from the New York Benevolent Association. “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too,” Patrick J. Lynch, the union’s president, said in a statement this past weekend. He went on to call for New Yorkers to avoid buying tickets to Tarantino films.

    #violence #police

  • The Galaxy That Got Too Big - Issue 29 : Scaling
    http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/the-galaxy-that-got-too-big

    We can’t help ourselves—we’re crazy about big things. We’ll venture miles out of our way to see the word’s largest rifle (33.3 feet long; Ishpeming, Michigan), high-heeled shoe (6.1 feet tall; New York City), or ball of twine (7.8 million feet unraveled; Cawker City, Kansas). And for what? Spectacle aside, the largest things rarely make much sense. It’s harder, not easier, to fry a tasty egg with the largest frying pan, or drive a screw with the largest screwdriver. In nature, too, size often comes with a cost. it’s elemental: This chart demonstrates how nuclear stability decreases as elements get larger. Ununoctium (element 118), the heaviest element ever made, is near the white circle.WikipediaThe largest element is the shortest-lived In the chemical world, scale defines identity: Add a (...)

  • ToxicSites

    http://www.toxicsites.us/about.php

    The Story of Toxic Sites

    https://vimeo.com/136202042

    The story dates back to 2006 when Brooke Singer, the founder and creative director of Toxic Sites, met Robert Martin. Martin, an environmentalist and former National Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency (1992-2002) was advising Singer on a citizen air-monitoring project for Lower Manhattan, leading him to the topic of New York City on 9/11. On that day, Robert was driving to his office, when the World Trade Center collapsed and the streets of New York were blanketed in a record amount of the most toxic substances ever known. Most Americans mourned and worried about further attacks, but EPA employees recognized the gravity of the environmental impact, swiftly mobilized first responders and internally debated whether all of Lower Manhattan should be declared a Superfund site – a site so hazardous that it warranted the relocation of inhabitants and immediate cleanup. In Robert’s opinion, all of Lower Manhattan qualified for Superfund after 9/11.

    #pollution #environnement #toxic_site #états-unis #pollution_chimique

  • Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue
    http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/bringing-guantanamo-to-park-avenue

    For the past six months, I’ve been collaborating with a former Guantánamo detainee, Mohammed el Gharani, preparing a work of art that we are making together. From October 2nd through the 4th, we will be streaming the image of Mohammed into the Park Avenue Armory. He will be sitting in a chair in a studio in West Africa, and his live image will be broadcast to New York City and wrapped onto a large three-dimensional cast of his body. His figure—more than three times life size, inspired by the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C.—will sit in the cavernous drill hall. Source: The New Yorker

  • Are Museums the Perfect Climate Change Education Tool? - Facts So Romantic
    http://nautil.us/blog/are-museums-the-perfect-climate-change-education-tool

    When Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of the New York and New Jersey coastlines, in October 2012, the looming threat of climate change abruptly became personal for a large portion of the East Coast—specifically Miranda Massie, a former public-interest lawyer. Seeing her city wasted, she realized that there was nowhere for the public to assemble and discuss what their future on a warming planet might look like.A taxi terminal in Hoboken, NJ, inundated by Hurricane Sandy.That Hartford Guy/Flickr So, she started the Climate Museum Launch Project, with the goal of building an education hub to, as its website states, “move climate awareness to the center of public life.” If the Climate Museum Launch Project secures funding, New York City would become home to the world’s largest, most ambitious (...)