Obituary of the week — ouch!

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Occupy Wall Street Photos from last week - Part 2

By Jack Brummet, Uprisings Editor

For Part 1 of these Occupy Wall Street Photos, go here. 

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Occupy Wall Street Photos from last week - Part 1

By Jack Brummet, Uprisings Editor

I spent a couple of hours last week downtown at Zuccotti Park/Occupy Wall Street.  It was fascinating--particularly the hundreds of mainstream, sidestream, and downstream media there attempting to come up with a story, or some unique angle on a story. . .

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Faces No. 240 - The Advance Team

By Jack Brummet
analog drawings digitized

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Faces No. 239 - Fourteen Faces

By Jack Brummet
Analog drawings digitized

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Nascence, or, Occupy Everything Occupiable

By Jack Brummet
[Occupy Wall Street Poster No. 4
analog drawing digitized & captioned in PhotoShop]

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Strange Scene On The Highline

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Editor

We saw this trio when Keelin and I were walking along The Highline in NYC last Monday.  I was a little hesitant about snapping a picture. . .it was hard to tell if this was some sort of tender private moment, or a performance.  I went with performance.  The man on the right is holding a bald baby doll with baby blue sunglasses, dressed identically to both of the men.  On the front cover of the three ring binder from which he seemed to be reading to the doll is the legend "Digby 1990-1992."  We can just all fill in the rest of the story.

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Wall Street, Occupied

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Bank Transfer Day - November 5th, or, Where to stick it!

 

By Mona Goldwater, Economics Editor

Bank Transfer Day is now set for November 5th.   With Wells Fargo now announcing that they too, along with Bank of America,  will be charging people to take their own money out of banks, Kristen Christian, a 27-year-old Los Angelean started Bank Transfer Day.  As of this morning, 36,447 people are doing it on November 5th.  Here's the Facebook page).

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The sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Editor

On my last day in New York, I finally got to the Museum of Modern Art.  I never miss a visit to MOMA.  I was especially eager to see the huge Willem de Kooning retrospective, and it did not disappoint.  The number of canvases and drawings was just astounding--from early students drawings and paintings to works he created in old age.  I was especially knocked out by his 50's post "Women Series" paintings, where he took his abstraction to a new level.  Those paintings are just gorgeous and kinetic.



Since it was such a warm day, I spent my last half hour in the sculpture garden.

Aristide Maillol. The River.

 

One of my favorite Joan Miro sculptures - Moonbird

Pablo Picasso's She Goat

 Auguste Rodin (you know, The Thinker guy) - Monument to Balzac

Alberto Giacometti - Standing Woman

Max Ernst  - The King Playing with the Queen

Katharina Fritsch. Figurengruppe (Group of Figures). I think this

is new--at any rate I didn't remember it.

Henry Moore - Family Group

Yoko Ono's Wish Tree (with contributions by many others)

Auguste Rodin again - Saint John the Baptist Preaching

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Photos and notes from The Staten Island Ferry

By Jack Brummet, NYC/Metro Editor

It may sound corny, but The Statue of Liberty was always one of my totems when I lived in NYC, and maybe even more so now, since my other totem was demolished on 9/11/2001.  When I actually lived in New York, the Staten Island Ferry cost either a nickel, a dime, or a quarter; it's free now. 

Taking the Staten Island Ferry, you see the fantastic working harbor, sailboats, cabin cruisers, cruise ships, barges, Governor's Island, and, of course, Ellis Island, and Staten Island. As the ferry pulls away from South Ferry you get great vistas of downtown, and the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. You see the new skyscrapers in Hoboken, and after a while, the massive and extremely long Verrazano Bridge, that links Staten Island to Brooklyn.

It was good to see the Lady of the Harbor up close once again. I saw a few older folks--probably one-time immigrants--with tears in their eyes as we pulled alongside The Statue of Liberty. 

On my last trip here. . .three or four years ago, I didn't get out into N.Y Harbor, so it was a priority on this visit.  I like the Statue as a work of art, but mainly as a symbol of not so much what we are, as what we can be.

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The Staten Island terminal at South Ferry

Near the ferry dock, with a view of--I think--Hoboken (Jersey City? Seacacus? I don't know...) 

Downtown, as the ferry pulls away.  In the left 1/3 of the photo, you

can see 1 World Trade Center under construction. They recently

changed the name from the previous and misguided title,

Freedom Tower.

The Verrazano Bridge, linking Staten Island to Brooklyn

a closer shot of the Verrazano, the longest bridge in

North and South America; when it was built in 1964,

it was the longest bridge in the world

The gal, with tourists lining the base

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