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Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938): Parlor, Gymnasium & Field
American painter, sculptor and set designer Mark Beard objects to the fact that most artists are expected to stick to whatever singular style brings them success, and for which they become known for. He has got around this by developing a number of distinct artistic personalities, each with a detailed biography and portrait photograph, to…
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Drag Queen Story Hour
Personally we never usually think about drag queens and children in the same sentence, but maybe we are wrong . The folk at the Feminist Press think that they have a lot in common : well they both love dressing up and all things sparkly and fancy! So they have established a popular children’s storytelling series,…
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On Christopher Street : Transgender Stories
For the past two years New York award-winning celebrity photographer Mark Seliger has been taking photographs that tell the stories of transgender people who live in his West Village neighborhood. Seliger said he would approach people he met on the street with a very simple pitch: “I’m working on a body of work and a…
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Off The Rails
Adam Irving’s directorial debut is the undeniably sad story of 50 year old Darius McCollum whose obsession with the trains and buses of NY’s transit system has resulted in him spending over half his adult life behind prison bars. McCollum has Aspergers syndrome and like other sufferers on the spectrum, his way of coping is…
