The Need for Reed
By Andy Van Slyke
The International Dialects Of English Archive

Marry got married  and wished us all a merry Christmas. Anyone from New York will tell you that the three M-words above are all pronounced differently.

Yinz know what I’m talking about?

IDEA – The International Dialects Of English Archive.

By Andy Van Slyke
Insta exhibit: autografik on flickr

Flickr: The Autografik Pool.

By Andy Van Slyke
armenia what ar’ say and ar’ say what armenia

The center, a mad work of architectural megalomania and historical recovery, is one of the strangest but most memorable museum buildings to open in ages. Imagine an Art Deco version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon stretching nearly the height of the Empire State Building, its decorations coded with Armenian symbolism.

via Abroad – Armenians Greet Their New Extravaganza of a Museum – NYTimes.com.

By Andy Van Slyke
Baltimore Elite Giants

Negro League baseball museum proposed for Baltimore

The plan calls for redeveloping Pennsylvania Avenue’s historic Sphinx Club and adjacent properties with a sports-themed museum, entertainment and dining complex designed to draw tourists and help rejuvenate the corridor.

sphinx

More inside

By Andy Van Slyke
TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE

TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE.

Because why not, right?

By Andy Van Slyke
uknown museum

By Andy Van Slyke
Like daughter like father?
By moetown
My Roommate’s Camera is a Racist

This week on At the Met, we look at the Beneson Gallery of African Art and accuse an inanimate object of bigotry. Read more inside.

By Josiah Tell
Installment 3: Kymia Nawabi

kimya-sculptureKymia Nawabi stood out at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space show. Her whimsical, yet somewhat disturbed drawings, paintings, and sculpture have the illustrative quality reminiscent of Tim Burton, giving characters multiple limbs or mix-matched bodies, and overlapping pattern over pattern –a complex world that begs to be dissected.

By moetown
Installment 2: The Female Gaze

cheim & readUnfortunately, we missed this one on the gallery hop last Thursday night in Chelsea, due to unexpectedly closed doors at Cheim & Read, but it is on the agenda for the next trip to the west side. The impressive roster includes names from Jenny Holzer to Kara Walker to Bernice Abbott, and of course, Louise Bourgeoise.

By moetown

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