The Tredwell Costume Collection comprises more than 400 articles of clothing, primarily women’s dresses and their accompanying chemisettes, collars, undersleeves, and petticoats. The core of the collection is a remarkable 39 dresses documented to have been owned and worn by the women of the family. Many are outstanding examples of the 19th-century dressmaker’s art, composed of fine and...

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This year, New Yorkers celebrate the 50th anniversary of the City’s groundbreaking Landmarks Law signed on April 19, 1965. The Merchant’s House, because of its remarkable state of preservation and importance in the history of New York City, played a significant role in the landmarking movement from its very beginning. “It is a unique, and I stress the word unique, survivor in th...

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The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour stops at the Bronx Museum where artist Danny Simmons will discuss his new book, The Brown Beatnik Tomes, which presents a collection of prose and paintings from the artist and entrepreneur.

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The exibition tells the history of cats online, examining phenomena like Caturday, lolcats, cat videos, celebrity cats, and more to unearth why images and videos of the feline kind have transfixed a generation of web users. Touching on concepts like anthropomorphism, the aesthetics of cuteness, the Bored at Work Network, and the rise of user-generated content, this exhibit takes a critical look at...

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The installation includes six entry banners and ten place settings arranged on a triangular table, each dedicated to a woman of personal significance to the artist. The members of Women of York responded to the limitations of making work within a correctional institution by repurposing materials from their everyday lives, including plastic cutlery, paper plates, and Styrofoam cups. The installati...

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Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories highlights the historical journey of an Afro-Cuban family, from Jamaica, to Cuba, to the Bronx, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. Major Leagues? profiles members of the Cuban National women's baseball team, who pursue their passion in a society filled with machismo and prejudice...

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This exhibition of 7 COLLABORATIVE PRINTS: Jennifer Koch and Gregg Blasdel are titled Marriages of Reason since obvious compositional necessities required Blasdel and Koch to unite two images onto one surface. “As we have continued to work together, our joining of ideas and image has become more homogeneous and compositional issues have become more natural to our process,” states Blasd...

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The exhibition has over 30 works of art in a wide range of media, from Nobu Fukui’s complex collage Incredulity, 2013, to glass masterpieces such as K. William LeQuier’s Confluence, 2011. The establishment of a gallery focused solely on 21st century art will allow the Museum to expand and enhance its contemporary arts educational activities and present our visitors with a wide range of...

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Get ready for Boogie on the Boulevard! On August 2nd, 9th, and 16th, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 161st Street to 167th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, activities, and programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond, as well as local artists and performers.

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Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located, during  Boogie on the Boulevard, Summer Sundays. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum. Meet at 1:00pm in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby

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