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Art at the Limits

The Housing Photographer Who Chronicled Sandy’s Destruction in Queens

Jeanmarie Evelly | October 29, 2022

Retired HPD photographer Larry Racioppo spent months without electricity after Hurricane Sandy rebuilding his Rockaway Park home. His photos from that time, and of his neighborhood over the decade since, are the subject of an exhibit on display this month at the Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE) in Far Rockaway.

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Opinion: Investing in Arts Education Can Help Students Heal

Heidi Landis | June 13, 2022

“The arts are a form of embodied play that surpasses verbal processing and allows us to explore, connect with ourselves and others, and ultimately build or rebuild the muscles of imagination when life circumstances or the experience of trauma has taken them away.”

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The Check In: COVID-19 and Latino Artists

Jeanmarie Evelly | December 11, 2020

This week, City Limits’ Spanish-language reporter and editor Daniel Parra talks about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on Latino arts organizations in the city and nationwide.

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City’s Latino Artists Disproportionately Impacted By the Pandemic

Daniel Parra | December 10, 2020

Latino artists report lower rates of health insurance, greater economic losses and higher unemployment. A higher number of them have seen their health or their family’s health directly impacted by COVID-19.

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Artistas latinos impactados desproporcionadamente por la pandemia

Daniel Parra | December 8, 2020

Artistas latinos reportan: mayores pérdidas económicas, mayor desempleo, en mayor medida han visto su salud o la de su familia afectada directamente por el coronavirus y en un mayor porcentaje no tienen seguro médico.

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NYC’s Older Adults Find Community in Remote Art Programs

David Brand | September 22, 2020

Amid the fear and isolation of the pandemic, art discussions, history lectures and even new virtual ukulele lessons stimulate memory and keep older adults connected.

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CityViews: An Artist Incensed by Domestic Violence Explains her Beautiful Images of Guns

Kadie Salfi | January 30, 2019

‘Pretend you were talking to an NRA member in a low-population, low-crime state like New Hampshire or Utah, where the rate of gun violence is much lower than in New York. If that person wondered into the exhibit, what would you want them to take away from it?’

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As Galleries Shut Around NYC, an Inclusive Outpost Somehow Survives

Rosemary Misdary | January 3, 2019

‘Most people wander in here because they think it’s a bathroom or the subway.’

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Artwork Could Be the Salvation for a Shuttered Church in Manhattan

Diana DuCroz | December 31, 2018

There are no more masses, weddings or funerals at St. Stephen’s Church on East 28th Street. Like many parishes around the city, it has been closed. But unique artwork inside could help preserve the structure.

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Art at the Limits: The Makers Behind the Messages in Political Art

Jarrett Murphy | August 28, 2018

We invited artists from a current (and very political) show at one New York gallery to talk about what their art meant or tell us about the person behind each piece.

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