Young Artists And Their Admirers Flock To LIC For P.S.1’s Latest
Queens Chronicle, March 17, 2005
The opening of P.S.1’s show, “Greater New York 2005,” drew around 6,000 young hip art lovers on Sunday to look at art, check out one another’s outfits, and in some cases, complain about the whims of the art world in Long Island City. >>
Tragic Beauty—The Stunning Photography Of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Queens Chronicle, February 24, 2005
The story of photographer and journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach is one that sweeping Merchant-Ivory bio-pics are made of. Her photograph could be an icon, pinned up on dorm room walls of free-spirited college students.
But the tragic, talented and adventurous life of Schwarzenbach, is largely unknown here in the United States. Celebrated in Europe, Thomas Mann called her a “ravaged angel.” Carson McCullers dedicated a book to her. In one sense her relative obscurity is a shame, but in another, it’s a delicious blessing. >>
New Generation Pays Tribute To Ragtime Legend Scott Joplin
Queens Chronicle, May 26, 2005
Across from the mausoleum and surrounded by headstones, the jumpy rhythms of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” filled the air at St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst last Saturday. >>
Dodging Traffic, Art Invades Queens Plaza Parking Lot
Queens Chronicle, May 05, 2005
New Yorkers aren’t surprised to see art in any number of places, on the walls of restaurants, in dusty basements and in a good many converted industrial spaces. But there are still places where the mere presence of art is an utter surprise.
On the first floor of the permanently drab municipal parking lot on Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, a former furniture store owned by Bill Modell of Modell’s Sporting Goods, will open as an art space on Friday for a month-long exhibition, “Exposure.”>>
Life Of TragedyLost Story Of One Of Queensbridge’s First Rappers
Queens Chronicle, July 07, 2005
In hip-hop music, more than any other, where you come from is paramount. There isn’t a fan worth his sneakers who can’t tell you exactly where his favorite rapper was born, raised and ran the streets. >>
Far Away, So Close—Avant Garde Filmmaker Takes On The Rockaways
Queens Chronicle, April 21, 2005
"The Rockaways seem to be torn between suburbs and the city," said filmmaker Mark Street. "It reminded me of teenage girls."
His experimental feature film, “Rockaway,” which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this month, is a meandering study of three high school girlfriends who live on the thin strip of land east of Manhattan and a stone’s throw from Kennedy Airport. >>