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10 Places to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in NYC
Coretta Scott King called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day “a people’s holiday,” but it is hard to resist honoring
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Hundreds of Volunteers Activate JR Art Installation in NYC
Over the weekend, more than 300 volunteers headed to Roosevelt Island to become part of a large-scale art installation by
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10 Places to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in NYC
Coretta Scott King called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day “a people’s holiday,” but it is hard to resist honoring
Arts & Culture
This Week, You Can Become Part of the Inside Out Project by JR at New York’s Port Authority
French artist JR is known for mounting monumental photographic installations around the world, from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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Top 10 Secrets of the Elizabeth Street Garden
The eclectic array of sculptures and pieces of architectural salvage within the Elizabeth Street Garden, a community green space in
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Artist JR’s Enormous Mural of New Yorkers on Stack of Shipping Containers
You may have noticed something big going up in Domino Park in Williamsburg recently. Atop a set of stacked blue
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See Street Artist JR’s New Monumental Mural, The Chronicles of New York City
The new exhibition JR: Chronicles at the Brooklyn Museum, which opens tomorrow, is artist JR’s largest solo museum exhibition
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10 Ways to Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2019 in NYC
Image via Wikimedia Commons, National Archives and Records Administration As we head into a long holiday weekend to celebrate Martin
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10 Past and Present JR Art Installations in NYC
JR is a prolific French photographer who has left his mark on cities all over the world with his signature
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New Dates Added for “Unframed” JR Tour of the Abandoned Hospital on Ellis Island
We have just added new dates for our Unframed JR Tour of the Abandoned Hospital Complex on Ellis Island for
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Large Scale Portraits of City Street Vendors Are Now on View Across NYC
Back in February, we snuck inside an unassuming garage in the East Village to get a look at where food
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Go Off-Off Limits on Ellis Island to Discover All 26 Pieces by Artist JR
Walking the hallways of an abandoned hospital would give anyone shivers. But what if apparitions from the past unexpectedly appeared