Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball, at The MET
Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball, on view at The MET through June 17, 2012.
This exhibition includes a selection of baseball cards illustrating some of the earliest and most illustrious players who moved from the Negro Leagues into the Majors, taken from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection. The more than thirty thousand baseball cards collected by Burdick date from 1887 to 1959 and represent the most comprehensive collection outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street.
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The Oral Biography of Billie Jean King
In good time for Women’s History month, Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Shaped our Times e-published the oral biography of Billie Jean King at Apple’s itunes store.
This chapter affords the opportunity to hear about one of life’s greatest agents of change – in her own voice. This oral biography shares the wisdom, tenacity and flexibility we all need to overcome the vicissitudes in life. Billie Jean King made her entree on the tennis court, but she may well be remembered for helping to level the playing field for women in the workplace, and her interest in social justice. Her story is an inspiration.
This is one of 12 chapters to come in the series, Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Changed Our Times; including the oral biographies of Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Tatyana Grosman, Grace Murray Hopper, Louise Nevelson, Agnes de Mille, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Diana Vreeland and Julia Child.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street.
Filed under Art, Enjoying New York City, Great Sites about NYC, Museums, Navigating New York, New York City | Comment (0)The Armory Show, through Sunday, March 11.
Beatriz Milhazes, Jamaica 2007, Woodblock & Screenprint, 70″ x 70″, Edition of 30
The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week. Please visit Durham Press at Pier 94 in booth 615to see this featured work by Beatriz Milhazes.
Pier 94 is located at Twelfth Avenue and 55th Street, New York, NY. The show runs from Thursday, March 8th through Sunday, March 11th, from 12 – 8pm
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