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Not Long for this World

by Ryan Haley, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Art & Architecture
November 26, 2007

Brooklyn Museum and the near-permanent exhibit, American Identities. Tired from the walk, we loitered around the first room and looked at the disparate paintings, furniture & objets d’art. Also in this room was a television monitor showing a loop of Thomas Edison’s films of revelers at Coney Island. These films reminded one of us of another Edison film from Coney Island that hasn’t made it onto the Library of Congress’ American Memory site: “Electrocuting an Elephant” (1903). Two grainy versions of the film are available here & here, but it’s perhaps best to start with the reported account of the execution from the New York Times 

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Richard Serra at MoMA

by Caroline Gifford, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Art & Architecture
November 7, 2007

Did you visit the Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years exhibition at MoMA? The museum’s website continues to offer the exhibition in audio and video. Most of show’s audio was Richard Serra’s voice supplying histories of the process of the art.

Starting on the sixth floor I was captured by the choice of the first piece overhead. Look up or you miss it and I think some did miss it: a huge steel plate imbedded in the ceiling. Further on, the materials such as vulcanized found doors evoked a lost industrial New York as well as the artist’s opportunistic eye.

The room quartered by "Circuit II", composed by four 10ft high sheets of 

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Heritage Savers: Inside the NYPL Preservation Division

by Evelyn Frangakis, Aaron and Clara Greenhut Rabinowitz Assistant Director for Preservation, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
September 20, 2007

Binding with metal bosses,
Spencer CollectionWelcome to NYPL’s Preservation blog. We’re looking forward to sharing information with you about what the Preservation Division does to save cultural heritage and make it accessible to you. To start the conversation, here’s a look into what you would see going on in our program today.

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