Inside Thirteen blogger: Bob Morris, Producer
Our president, Neal Shapiro, calls Thirteen.org “a house of ideas.” It’s a very apt phrase...
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Summer has a kind of Jekyll/Hyde duality. As appealing as outdoor events might sound – concerts and plays in the park, hot dog eating contests on the boardwalk – I find myself seeking cool indoor places. Two major art shows currently on view reflect this external/internal tension, and not simply because of the obvious settings.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Hamza Ibrahim is a refugee from Darfur who now lives in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn. He told WIDE ANGLE about growing up in Darfur, driving a taxi in New York City, and collecting clothes and school supplies to send to people living in refugee camps back home. See story…
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
David Byrne discusses his 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation that transforms the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” Watch the interview…
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Tune in to see “The Waterfalls: Making Public Art” tonight at 8pm on Thirteen, but also visit our new site all about Public Art.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Called, ‘MoleSafe’, it was developed in New Zealand to detect melanoma early. But the first U.S. clinic to adopt the technology is in northern NJ. Watch the story……
July 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Clay Felker, the prolific magazine editor and founder of New York Magazine, died today, July 1, 2008, at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even …
The Waterfalls
June 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Eliasson talks about The New York City Waterfalls project, how the placement of the falls reflects NYC as a whole, and more about the construction and conceptualization of the project. …
June 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thirteen/WNET’s REEL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL kicks off the summer with independent films and videos by New Yorkers and about New York.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
The New York City Department of Health announced an initiative to administer HIV tests to the estimated 250,000 untested 18- to 64-year-olds in The Bronx over the next three years.
The Waterfalls and New York City
Home Delivery: The Cases of Japan and Scandinavia
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, surveys the past, present and future of the...
Randi Weingarten Elected AFT President
Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago on July 14, 2008. The following is...
