The Making of America, From Deep Time to Our Time
Kirk Johnson ’82, Director of the National Museum of Natural History and host of the NOVA series Making North America, will talk about Deep Time, the formation of the North American continent and what they teach us about American life now. Presented by the Class of 1982.
Lecture Hall 2, Merrill Science Center
NYU Taub Center--50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial—A Look Back--Lawrence Douglas
New York University's Taub Center for Israel Studies ( hosted a symposium The 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial—A Look Back, on Thursday, April 28, 2011.
Lawrence Douglas, a professor at Amherst College and author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (2001) and the forthcoming Reflections on the Glass Booth: A Jurisprudence of Atrocity.
SHARP 2019 Amherst
The official trailer of the 27th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing--SHARP (sharpweb.org)--to be held from 15 to 19 July 2019 in Amherst, Massachusetts. The conference theme is Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book. The conference takes place primarily at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the flagship campus of the state university system, but also includes events at other venues in Amherst.
Optional post-conference excursions on 19 July will highlight literary sites of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Further information at (site goes live 15 August 2018).
Special Thanks
• Narrator: Corey Flintoff, former newscaster and international correspondent for National Public Radio
• Music: “ Lanchas para baylar,” from the 18th-century Trujillo del Peru Codex, performed by The Folger Consort
“These pieces demonstrate that very early in the colonial period European traditions and American and African influences were joining and forming a truly American musical style”
--Robert Eisenstein
Mount Holyoke College; Director, Five College Early Music Program; Programming Director, Folger Consort
Thanks to Bob and the Folger Consort for graciously allowing us to use their beautiful recording of this piece, whose hybridity and dynamism epitomize the themes of this conference.
And thus thanks, as well, to Marianne Wald of the Folger Library for bringing this recording to our attention.
Artist
The Folger Consort, Early Modern Ensemble in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington (administered by the Trustees of Amherst College) in Washington, DC, 2013
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Album
Bard CD, “Christmas in New Spain” (2014)
Recorded live at the Folger Shakespeare Library, December 2013
Joined Jul 18, 2018
Immigration to USA - THE BROWNING OF AMERICA
Ilán Stavans, PhD, is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College 40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. With a PhD from Columbia University, a MA from The Jewish Theological Seminary, and a BA from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in his native Mexico, Dr. Stavans is host of La Plaza: Conversations with Ilán Stavans for which he was nominated for an Emmy,and has authored, reviewed, or contributed to 88 books. He has received 46 awards, including The National Endowment for the Humanities, Presidential Medal of Honor from Chile, Rubén Dario Medal, Distinguished Guest of Nicaragua, Ytzjak Rabin Lecture, Commonwealth Humanities Lecture, and Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Dubbed the Czar of Latino culture in the U.S by The New York Times, Dr. Stavans lectures widely to increase awareness of the challenges and significance of our multicultural society.
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Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the Annual Friends of the Libraries Reception at UMass Amherst
October 30, 2019 Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the 21st Annual Friends of the Libraries Fall Reception. Ellsberg was the featured speaker to celebrate the recent acquisition of his personal papers by the UMass Amherst Libraries.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 27 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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Vestal Museum | Path Through History | WSKG
VESTAL MUSEUM | BROOME COUNTY
Built in 1881, the Vestal train depot brought a new look to the area. With its steeply pitched roof, distinctive curve over the eaves and circular roof supports, the building had a unique and somewhat oriental appearance. Designed in what became known as pagoda style, it would serve as a model for several train depots built along the route west of Binghamton.
Eventually, declining rail traffic forced the closure of Vestal Station in 1959. After sitting vacant for several years the Town of Vestal bought the building with plans to relocate it next to the Vestal Library, rehabilitate the structure, and use it as a museum. Since reopening in 1976, Vestal Museum has served the community with ongoing exhibits and educational programs.
Today the unique architecture and graceful style of this local historic landmark stand out as one of the area's most prominent and recognizable icons. Inside, exhibits fill the building and are changed regularly, but there is more to see beyond the displays. The ticket window, worn wooden floors, freight scales and large sliding doors all have stories to tell -- of traveling along New York's Path Through History.
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50 Unsung Heroes From History -- Colin's Last Stand (Episode 50)
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Poetry By Patricia Goedicke
Poetry reading in the Missoula Art Museum, held shortly after the new wing and re-model was completed.
Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury College in 1953, where she studied with Robert Frost. She also studied under W. H. Auden at Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York City in 1955.
She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at Ohio University, where in 1965 she completed her M.A. in creative writing and poetry. She divorced in 1968, the same year that while an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she met Leonard Wallace Robinson. He was a writer for The New Yorker and a fiction editor and book editor at Esquire Magazine. They married in 1971. The couple later moved to San Miguel de Allende in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she taught creative writing at the Universidad de Guanajuato. Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor at the University of Montana, where she taught until her retirement in 2003.
Her awards and honors include the Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni; a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; a Pushcart Prize; the William Carlos Williams Prize; the 1987 Carolyn Kizer Prize; the Hohenberg Award, and the 1992 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner. Her last book was recognized as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2000 by the American Library Association. The Tongues We Speak was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990.
Goedicke died of pneumonia and a complication of lung cancer, at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.
As the Earth Begins to End: New Poems, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
Invisible Horses, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1996)
Paul Bunyon's Bearskin, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992)
The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1989)
Listen, Love, poetry (Daleville: Barnwood, 1986)
The Wind of Our Going, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1985)
Crossing the Same River, poetry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
The Dog That Was Barking Yesterday, poetry (Amherst: Lynx, 1980)
The Trail That Turns on Itself, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1978)
For the Four Corners, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1976)
Between Oceans, poetry (San Diego: Harcourt, 1968)
Manchester, New Hampshire Community Video Tour
- Manchester is the largest city in New Hampshire. The city of almost 110,000 residents is divided by The Merrimack River and is the financial, political and cultural center for the state. In 2009 CNNMoney.com rated Manchester 13th in a list of the 100 best cities to live and launch a business in the United States.
One of the architectural highlights of Manchester are its historic red brick mills, many of which have been renovated for other uses. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire. From modest beginnings in near wilderness, it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world. At its peak, Amoskeag was unrivaled both for the quality and quantity of its products. But with great size came an inability to adapt. In the early 20th century, the business failed in changing economic and social conditions. Segway, the University of New Hampshire and other software and high tech companies occupy the restored buildings. Restaurants and loft apartments are also prominent. Manchester's 19th century affluence left behind some of the finest Victorian commercial, municipal and residential architecture in the state of New Hampshire.
Manchester's many cultural landmarks include the historic Palace Theatre, the Currier Museum of Art, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the Franco-American Center, the Manchester Historic Association, Millyard Museum, the Massabesic Audubon Center, the Amoskeag Fishways Learning Center, and the SEE Science Center. The Verizon Wireless Arena, opened in 2001, hosts a variety of sporting and entertainment events, including hockey and football games, rock concerts and fairs. The New Hampshire Fisher Cats and the Northeast Delta Dental Stadium are located right downtown.
Housing in Manchester ranges from Historic North End Mansions to chic condominiums to funky loft apartments, and everything in between.
Thousands of children and adults have enjoyed skiing and snowboarding at the McIntyre Ski for decades.
Manchester is located between Nashua and Concord and is at the crossroads of all the major highways in New Hampshire. The Manchester•Boston Regional Airport (MHT) is one of the fastest growing airports in the country and services consumers in four states.
Amanda Brown-Olmstead, CEO and President, a. Brown-Olmstead Associates (ABOA) - IMPACT
Amanda Brown-Olmstead, who received the Ball State University's National Public Relations Professional Achievement Award for the year 2002, is one of the PR industry's Fellows, a distinction held by approximately 300 practitioners worldwide, and is also fully accredited. She has been a member of PRSA for more than 20 years in leadership positions. Head of her own agency for 35 years, she is known for her hands on client service, and respected for her counsel.
Client programs under her direction have included the first three-way satellite news conference linking the mayors of Chicago, Washington, and Los Angeles; the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow; the development of marketing plans for the creation of the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain. Ms. Brown-Olmstead's coordination of an officer recruitment project for the Atlanta Police Department won her a Silver Anvil, the highest honor given by PRSA, as did the launch of Step Aerobics. Among the 64 award-winning client programs benefiting from her direction are companies and organizations such as Turner Broadcasting System, Ernst & Young, White Lily, Citibank, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Blue Circle America, and the National Black Arts Festival.
Recently, she has lead efforts to raise money and profile for the Ron Clark Academy, put the Brian Train on the map and assist Arnie Silverman become Small Business Person of the Year. She served on the working group taskforce for the Center of Civil and Human Rights
Currently, Ms. Brown-Olmstead is a member of the Regional Business Coalition Board, the Board of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), the Advisory Board of Shepherd Center, the Board of the Atlanta Regional Health Forum, the Board of Councilors for The Carter Center, the Executive Committee of Robinson College of Business at Georgia State and the chair of the Hall of Fame program, the Board of the Women's Forum of Georgia, the national Board of the Episcopal Media Center (EMC), and co-chairman of the annual dinner benefit for the EMC. She has been actively involved in the development of CAP's Downtown Improvement District and was chairman of the Public Relations/Communications Task Force for Central Atlanta Study II and the review committee for CA2P. She was Vice President of the Board of the International Women's Forum and Chair of the Georgia Chapter. She has been responsible for launching many successful community programs to include The Salute to Women of Achievement, the Young Careers membership division of the High Museum of Art and the Outstanding Atlantan Award Program. She is a former member of the Advisory Board to the Business School and the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi, and a past member of the Board of Visitors of Emory University.
She has been designated one of the Ten Outstanding Atlantans, was elected a member of Leadership Atlanta, was selected to be honored at Salute to Women of Achievement for YWCA, was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by the International Women's Forum, and is listed in Outstanding Atlantans and various Who's Who publications. She received a Gold Medal in the New York Film & TV Festival. As a member of The Order of the Phoenix, she is in the PRSA Georgia chapter Hall of Fame and has been awarded the George Goodwin Award for Public Service.
Littlefield Lecture: Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction
Monday, February 26, 2018, at the University of Texas at Austin.
Manisha Sinha is a professor and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History. She was born in India and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize. She was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed on faculty and received the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Advising from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she taught for over twenty years. Her recent book The Slave’s Cause was reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, and The Boston Globe, among other newspapers and journals. It was featured as the Editor’s Choice of the New York Times Book Review. It was named the book of the week by Times Higher Education in May 2016 to coincide with its UK publication and one of three Great History Books for 2016 in Bloomberg News. Her first book, The Counterrevolution of Slavery, was named one of the ten best books on slavery in Politico in 2015. In 2017, she was named one of Top Twenty Five Women in Higher Education by the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
Sinha’s research interests lie in United States history, especially the transnational histories of slavery and abolition and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is a member of the Council of Advisors of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg, New York Public Library, co-editor of the “Race and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900,” series of the University of Georgia Press, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Civil War Era. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Time Magazine, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post and been interviewed by The Times of London, The Boston Globe, and Slate. She appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show in 2014. She was an adviser and on-screen expert for the Emmy nominated PBS documentary, The Abolitionists (2013), which is a part of the NEH funded Created Equal film series. Professor Sinha is on leave for the 2016-2017 academic year working on her new book on abolition and the making of Radical Reconstruction.
Remembering Richard Wilbur
A celebration of the life and poetry of Richard Wilbur, co-sponsored by the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Department of English at Amherst College on November 1, 12017. Poems, songs, images, memories and conversation.
Polarization Symposium at UMass Amherst: Panel discussing Hate in Historical Perspective
Hate in Historical Perspective was the topic for the first panel at the Polarization Symposium held on February 5, 2019 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Featured speakers were Evelyn Simien from University of Connecticut; Franklin Odo from Amherst College; and Susannah Heschel from Dartmouth College.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 26 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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Gays in the military | Vincent Cianni | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Using images and narrative, Vincent Cianni describes how his work documenting gays in the military broadened his own perspective of understanding and accepting the differences of others.
Documentary photographer Vincent Cianni graduated from Penn State University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and SUNY New Paltz. He teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design, NYC. He currently lives in Newburgh, NY. Cianni’s documentary work explores community and memory, the human condition, and the use of image and text. We Skate Hardcore, published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, was voted Best Book Design by the American Association of University Presses. His work has also been reproduced in photo journals and anthologies such as The New York Times, Huffington Post, Double Take, Photograph, Creative Camera, The Sun, and The New Yorker. His photographs have been exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Nasher Museum, Photographers’ Gallery, London; the 7th International Photography Festival in Mannheim; and the George Eastman House. A major survey of his work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscript Library established a study archive to insure the preservation of all his documentary projects as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts. His photographs are represented in numerous public and private collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research, and Bibliotecque National de France.
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Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States
How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? On September 17, 2019, author Laura Limonic joined with Eric Lach of The New Yorker in conversation about her fascinating book.
Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Not easily classifiable in U.S. society, Latino Jews challenge racial and ethnic categories on many levels. Limonic introduces the stories of Latino Jewish immigrants offering new insight with which to understand the diversity of Latinos, the incorporation of contemporary Jewish immigrants, and the effect of ethnicity and race on immigrant assimilation in the United States.
Andrew Hartman: The Culture Wars Then and Now
Steve and Corey talk to Andrew about his new introduction to his book “The War for the Soul of America.” While the left largely won the culture wars, the three wonder whether the pendulum has swung so far left that many liberals are alienated by today’s cultural norms.
Other topics: Was the left’s victory in the debate over the college curriculum pyrrhic? Is identity politics a necessary step in liberation or a problematic slide toward greater division or both? Are current students too sensitive, and easily triggered, to take the fight to the Billionaire class?
Transcript
[BONUS] – Left and Right at MSU – #27.5
Andrew Hartman (Faculty Profile)
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Steve Hsu is VP for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. He is also a researcher in computational genomics and founder of several Silicon Valley startups, ranging from information security to biotech. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon before joining MSU.
Corey Washington is Director of Analytics in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. He was educated at Amherst College and MIT before receiving a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in a Neuroscience from Columbia. He held faculty positions at the University Washington and the University of Maryland. Prior to MSU, Corey worked as a biotech consultant and is founder of a medical diagnostics startup.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this program are those of the guest(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the hosts, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, or Michigan State University.
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A foresight storytelling experience | Kewulay Kamara | TEDxUNC
In his TEDxUNC talk, Kewulay Kamara uses his experiences in Sierra Leone to describe a storytelling experience from his life.
Kewulay Kamara, is an internationally renowned poet, storyteller, and lecturer, has been the subject of three feature articles in The New York Times and has appeared on A&E Television, Public Television and other major media outlets. Kewulay has performed at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, Gerald Lynch Theater, City Center, The Museum of Natural History and Oxford University, and participated in The Peoples Poetry Gatherings, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry and Langston Hughes Festivals. He is the recipient of numerous grants from major foundations including the Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Geographic, and National Endowment for the Arts. Kewulay received an MA in Economics at the Graduate Faculty New School for Social Research and presented a thesis for an MFA in Performance and Integrated Media Arts at Brooklyn College CUNY. He has lectured for 25 years at the City University of New York.
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The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Migration and Art
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on Migration and Art among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg.
November 27, 2018
In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever more prevalent in the public discourse of both Europe and the United States. In the panel discussion Migration and Art, acclaimed purveyors of culture who have voluntarily relocated will examine whether art transcends cultural and national boundaries, and reflect on how bringing their own talents and ideas into a different cultural context and initially foreign space has shaped their own artistic practice and general outlook.
This discussion is part of The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations, a series of six talks presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU that addresses an array of important topics that are currently intensely debated in both Germany and the United States, and are of political and sociopolitical relevance in both countries: threats to democracy; economic inequality and populism; migration and art; civil society and political engagement; climate change and activism; and educational policy and academic freedom.
Nathalie Anglès is co- founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlimited (RU). From 2000-2008, she worked at Location One as the Director of the International Residency Program. Before moving to New York in 2000, Nathalie worked in Paris at the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD), Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), and the American Center Sotheby’s (London). In 2008, Nathalie received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
German photographer Stefan Falke lives in New York City and has published two books: “MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad,” a photo essay about a stilt walking school in Trinidad, and “LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US – Mexican Border,” the result of an ongoing project for which he photographed over 200 artists who live and work on both sides of the 2000 miles long US-Mexico border. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, photo festivals, and museums.
Silvia Fehrmann is a literary scholar, translator and cultural manager. In January 2018, she took on the role of head of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Programme, one of the world’s most renowned scholarship programmes for artists working in the visual arts, literature, music and film. Fehrmann was formerly the deputy director of the Berlin-based Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), which is a venue for contemporary arts and a forum for the public discourse. She is a spokesperson of the Rat für die Künste Berlin, an elected commission representing the Berlin´s cultural practitioners.
Working in film and video, sound, performances, and installations, Andy Graydon tracks the wayward lives of forms in the world, from morphogenesis to translation to decay. Interested in natural and social ecologies, and the role of listening and the voice, Andy Graydon’s work engages structures of music such as scoring, improvisation, collective emergence, and community. Andy Graydon is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maui, Hawai’i. His work has been presented internationally at the New Museum, Participant Inc, New York; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass.; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawai’i; Wroclaw Media Arts Bienniale, Poland; and others. Andy Graydon lived and worked in Berlin from 2008 to 2014, and taught sound art and photography at NYU Berlin from 2012 to 2014.
Claudia Steinberg left Cologne for New York in 1980, originally planning to stay for a year. Her decision to remain in New York was greatly influenced by her friendships and work relationships with German writers and artists who had fled Nazi Germany. When the wall between East and West Germany fell, longstanding political beliefs were put into question. In the last decade, Claudia Steinberg has developed a keen interest in the US/Mexican border — as a journalist she grew fascinated with the complex and untamable town of Tijuana, which became the subject of several articles. She writes for taz, Die Zeit, Vogue, Tank Magazine and The Fabulist, among other publications.
The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations. Migration and Art is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy (BMWi). Additional support is provided by the DAAD.
Local legislators react to Buffalo Billion investigation
Legislators head back to Albany Tuesday as the corruption in state government continues to be front and center. In fact, ethics reform is the first item on their agenda. It's part of a broadening probe into Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic-development initiatives in Western New York.