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ONLY BE NEW YORKER
Only-Be New Yorker
New York for children
New York is a city that has fun places for people of all ages and all ear long. But, for children, this city is full of magic in its large buildings, its well-decorated shops full of lights and the millions of people that come and go 24/7 to the Statue of Liberty, which is the most famous icon on the planet. Even so, we´ll tell you how to enjoy New York in different ways with your children. To begin the tour, we´ll tell you that Central Park si one of the biggest adventures in the city, and you can carry out recreational activities there with your kids all year long. It´s located between 59th and 110th Street. It has large green extensions, a mini zoo, an ice rink, an open-air theatre, a carousel and many paths to run, skate, ride a bike or ride a horse in. You can rent bicycles and see it in a day or more, because it´s such as big place. If it´s about emotions, nothing better than a ferry trip to Staten Island. The trip lasts between 20 and 25 minutes from the New York Dock and you can imagine the first view that the European immigrants had of this city. You´ll see the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan in all of its splendor. The ferries leave south Manhattan, at Battery Park, and the trip is free. The Rockefeller Centre is a place that we have all seen in films, and that´s why it´s an unmissable site if you go with your family to New York. Located between 5th Avenue and 52nd Street, it´s...
New York for sport lovers
New York is a place where everything is possible, so don´t worry if your tastes are on the sport vein, here we will tell you about places you must visit and what are the major sporting events not to be missed at this time of year. A sport that new yorkers do not missis baseball and the most popular team is the Yankees, therefore, any sport lover who visits this city must visit its stadium know its iconography in the Bronx neighborhood . Located at one east 161 Street, since 1923 is part of the life of the city, which is why there is a tour with bilingual guides to help you visit its facilities. There you may see the big Yankee stadium and buy souvenirs in their stores. But the best thing is to go to one of their games, since there is where the passion of baseball lives, and you can feel the pulse of the city. Tickets are sold at the ticket office at the stadium during the whole week, but if you go on the day of the game the box office opens two hours before the match begins. The price of the ticket varies according to location in the stadium and its prices begin at the $10. The season for this sport is spring. Basketball is another of the great passions of new yorkers. If you don´t believe it go to any neighborhood of the city and you will always find a basketball court where you can shoot a few balls. Even the National Basketball Association, more commonly known as NBA, was founded in...
Tribute for the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe in New York
On the 18th of January the birth of one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature will be commemorated, an influence to numerous writers and movements such as surrealism and the damned poets of 19th century France: I´m talking about the great Edgar Allan Poe, American writer than in his short 40 years of life managed to build a renovating work of gothic literature, a fundamental piece of romantic literature which inspired the detective novel genre. The life of Poe was shaped by the death of the women he loved the most, something which is reflected in most part of his poetic creation as well as in his prose. His biological parents died when he was barely two years old and, due to this, him and his sister were adopted by two different families, the Allan family in the writers case, although they never acknowledged it legally. The death of Mrs Allan, his stepmother, the person who Poe was closest to, occurred when Edgar was still a teenager, which knocked the boy hard and left him completely helpless because his stepfather, tired of the new vices of the 16 year old, ended up cutting him off, a main reason as to why Poe lived with so many economic difficulties throughout his life. This was aggravated due to the choice of the writer of dedicating himself exclusively to literature, which was unheard of in his time. The work of the writer was delimited by the economic condition he was going through, “writing what sold the most”, reason why his poetic work isn´t as extensive, despite his talent. However, it´s in prose and...
The Anonymous fashion and its ‘merchandise’ in New York
We´re all aware of what´s going on in New York these days and the great efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement to stop the huge machine which is feeding the economic recession and which is pushing us towards the economic abyss. Day to day, thanks to the social networks, we´re aware of everything which is going on on a global level regarding activism and political actions of thousands of young people, students, unemployed and activists. The benefits of the social networks have permitted that a very simple idea like pacific protesting spreads throughout the globe and that people wake up to new ways of communication and action. However, on the social networks there´s a trap to which people are just reacting to: the discomfort of anonymity and consumerism through itself. Now there are websites on the internet that offer Anonymous products. Mainly T-shirts with the slogans of the anonymous group of activists, the logos created by them and the phrases which refer to the group. So what´s the problem with this? Simple. A proposal that at first sight was marginal and against the system is being absorbed by the system in a much more accelerated way. We have to pay attention to the information that´s being handled on the social networks. Not everything that´s being posted or tweeted is necessarily true. This makes the the configuration of truth goes through us and the level of fiction of the news is manipulated even more. In the case of the Anonymous ´merchandise´, we just have to turn our back on these type of operations for wanting to profit from the...
Professional Bull Riders in New York
Perhaps few things describe very well, the main features that make up the image of what is essentially to be an American, as the rodeo activities, often qualified by its followers as the world´s toughest sport. The cowboy image symbolize, supported on advertising, television and films, the archetype of an independent American, tough, mysterious and taciturn, a being of border that embodies the spirit of the pioneer capable of making his way in hostile and unknown lands, dominated by nature. In his book Lila, An Inquiry Into Morals, the author Robert M Pirsig U.S. reflected on the way the most characteristic features which often identifies the American cowboy, seem almost as an identical mirror that evokes the figure of the American Indians, true natives of a land that was taken away from them in a singularly cruel by the bloody and genocidal hands of the European settlers. Traits such as generosity and confidence in himself, an enigmatic silence, only broken by a surprisingly accurate measurement and choice of words (never spoken just to fill or kill time), a state of permanent alert, a developed sense of ritual, decent behavior, modest, reserved and dignified, as well as a certain willingness to sudden outbursts of extreme violence, would be just some of the features of the cultural values of the Native Americans that may be reflected in the figure of the white American cowboy, which appeals to the heart of the nation identified as the historical cultural system of American values , source of all that is considered good unconsciously by most of the inhabitants of the country. Pirsig argues that...
African Innovations in New York
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the largest in the U.S. and the second largest in New York City. However, it would have been even four times larger if the planning regulations had not obliged in 1895 to make an alteration of the original plan leading to the reduction of its excessive size. The current building was opened in 1897, but until the decade of the seventies of the twentieth century, the museum did not own its independence, being a subdivision of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts, Letters and Sciences, which also included the Academy of Music, The Botanical Gardens Museum and the popular Infancy Museum of the New York district. The size and variety of its collections is at the height of its huge number of square meters and its spectrum ranges from stunning masterpieces of ancient Egypt to the Center for Feminist Art Elizabeth A. Sackler, which displays, among other pieces, the seminal installation of Judy Chicago´s “Dinner” Within this impressive array of exhibits, the collection of African art (in fact the Brooklyn Museum was one of the first to present an exhibition of African art in American territory, in 1923), comprised of more than 5000 pieces that run more than 2500 years of history,makes it the largest of all existing in the United States and is especially outstanding In the last year this extraordinary collection has undergone a meticulous process of reorganization that has finally culminated in a new way of presenting the pieces based on chronological and contextual criteria which moves aside the until now eminently geographical approach This new presentation of these parts is...
Sanja Iveković in New York
A couple of years ago, at a performances festival which took place in Paris, the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovi?, protagonist of the excellent anthological exhibition ´Sweet Violence´ which can be visited at the MOMA until the 26th of March (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1148), presented a piece, ´Eva´s Game´, in which she recreated the extremely famous photograph of Julian Wasser taken in 1962 regarding the great anthological exhibition of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum, which represented the influential and enigmatic French artist, who had allegedly retired decades ago from all artistic production, playing chess with his young friend and future artist and writer Eve Babitz, who facing the ever-smart looking Duchamp, appeared completely naked. Sanja Ivekovi? deconstructed the famous image, a regular practice in her interesting work, recreating the game in a way that it was the woman, herself, who was dressed, in black like Duchamp, while her opponent, the commissioner of the Parisian festival, was completely naked. At the same time that both recreated the game at Pasadena, they recited a dialogue made with the words of an interview given by Eve Babitz herself, whose answers were proffered by Sanja Ivekovi?, placing herself somewhat simultaneously in the place of the two protagonists of the scene, nearly forty years after the original photo. The performance give us many guidelines on the way that Sanja Ivekovi? works with texts and images, as well as the feminist side of her work, always interested to tackle the problem of the role of women in society and in history inside the context of an incisive social and political critic which deals directly with the most controversial subjects of our time...
Sanja Ivekovic at the MOMA in New York
Much before that conceptual art was the everyday work of contemporary artists, many plastic artists explored new resources and the most recent forms of media diffusion to question political systems as well as the constant social and gender injustices, using means which were distributed and, at the same time, extensions of the very same mainstream: there where Big Brother began its walk across adjustment and repression, these artists found signs that transposed, could put the artistic system in big problems. The first conceptualism of the 60s, especially the categories and variants of what today is known as Fluxus, not only had a great impact at a social and political level when seen from afar or from a certain distance, but, also, at the same time, were trying to disarm the stiff edges of art; rupture, questioning the gallery and the museum. Also, during the time of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, many artists in Eastern Europe and other latitudes expressed their discontent with the imposing passing of a political system which, without any freedom, strived to make many people believe that the revolution was around the corner. Among those artists, the important Sanja Ivekovi?, will be exhibiting at the MOMA, showing these inherent and current processes in her artistic work. ´Sweet Violence´ is the name of this exhibition, the first one in an American museum by this Bosnian artist. This exhibition is a true symbolic and convincing effort to show an artistic career which spans over forty years. Ivekovi? hasn´t just made works deeply related with activism and feminism, but she´s also a pioneer of international video art. Her...
Matisyahu in Nueva York
No, he is not a rabbi who smokes too much marijuana and loses control, he is Matisyahu. Indeed, the “look” of Orthodox Jews is no accident, but this deeper hybrid of Jamaican sound knew how to take advantage of family tradition. Born in Pennsylvania, Matisyahu embraced Orthodox Judaism from a very early age, but it would be his experiences with psychedelic drugs, being a “Phish-head”, ie strong follower and fan of the Jam Band Phish, what would take him deeper in his musical career by exploring the Village of New York. He currently lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and has gone from one Jewish sect to another in an exploration that could be considered mystical or the course fit for an artist full of eccentricities that is constantly changing. On one hand, reggae music continues to be a style for refugees, moved aside that do not necessarily agree with the conditions of postmodern society. The reggae anthem does not only go hand in hand with this vibrant music, which promotes and calls all listeners to dance, to smoke cannabis and follow a life of vegetarianism and coexistence with nature, reggae spreads a message of peace, unity and dance that unites communities. The question is, does the world need more reggae in the world? Can Matisyahu, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn hold on to the banner of reggae without major compromises. The answer is yes. This post-modern character Matisyahu has all the virtues to build a strong pop music character. The hybrid nature of Matisyahu without a doubt is a rich and rewarding exponent of the international reggae scene, but...Children´s Museum of the Arts New York
The Children´s Museum of the Arts is a New York museum which was created especially to promote art among children.
