Tag: Enrico Caruso

Art Insanity: The elegant audacity of the Armory Show of 1913, the daring exhibit that awed and outraged America

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date January 11, 2013
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The monster within the Armory’s ‘Chamber of Horrors’: Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 PODCAST The Armory Show of 1913 was the mainstream debut of modernist art — both European and American — to New York City audiences. Galleries had previously devoted themselves to the great European masters, antiquity and American landscapes as… Read More

Tags 69th Regiment Armory, Alfred Stieglitz, Armory Show, Edward Hopper, Enrico Caruso, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pablo Picasso, theodore roosevelt

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music: Enduring floods, fires and snobbery to become New York’s oldest home for the arts

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date June 1, 2012
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PODCAST One of America’s oldest cultural institutions, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (or BAM) has an unusual history that spans over 150 years and two separate locations. We trace the story from the earliest roots of a Manhattan-Brooklyn rivalry and a discussion of high-class tastes to the greatest stars of the performing arts, including a couple… Read More

Tags Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Enrico Caruso, Mark Twain, New York Academy of Music, Podcasts, Robert Moses, Union Square