An abstract painter who wanted to creatively destroy the gap between art and revolution, he loosely led a band of radicals ...

Looking back on the New York art scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s you see quite a few artists, mostly younger ones, painting landscapes, still lifes, figures. Diving into back issues of art ...

Artist Miguel Luciano designed the installation using photographs taken by Hiram Maristany, a Young Lords member. A view of an installation at Metropolitan Hospital ...

J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics — and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground ...

In the world of urban planning, it's not every day that an opportunity comes along to correct an historic mistake. New York can never bring back the original and grand Penn Station, which was allowed ...

To paraphrase Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis: Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J. Hoberman’s tenure as lead ...

Sumiharu Watanabe worked at Nikon USA in New York between 1962 and 1964. As a newcomer to the city, he wandered Manhattan with his camera. New York 1962–1964, published in a limited edition by ...

In 1960, a significant mid-air collision occurred over New York City, involving two commercial airliners. The incident took place on December 16th when United Airlines Flight 826, traveling from ...

The 1960s were the height of aviation's Jet Age -- a glamorous era characterized by faster travel, stylish uniforms, streamlined design and cocktails aplenty. In these days of crammed airports and ...