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  2. American Academy of the Fine Arts - Wikipedia

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    The American Academy of the Fine Arts was an art institution founded in 1802 in New York City, to encourage appreciation and teaching of the classical style. [1] It exhibited copies of classical works and encouraged artists to emulate the classical in their work. [2] Richard Varick, the mayor of New York, and Gulian Verplanck, a New York ...

  3. Central Park jogger case - Wikipedia

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    Lawsuit by five of the wrongly convicted against New York State; settled for $3.9 million. The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [ 1][ 2] On the night of the attack, dozens ...

  4. New York Friars Club - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates. 40°45′39″N 73°58′21″W  / . 40.760886°N 73.972551°W. / 40.760886; -73.972551. Website. www .friarsclub .com. The Friars Club is a private club in New York City. Famous for its risqué roasts, the club's membership is composed mostly of people who work in show business. Founded in 1904, it is located at 57 East 55th ...

  5. Safiya Songhai - Wikipedia

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    Songhai is an African-American descendant of the 300 year old Pierce, Murray, Cuff, Gould settlement located in Gouldtown, New Jersey [4] and Bridgeton, New Jersey . She is a descendant of the Bamileke of Cameroon and derives from Haitian, and Bajan immigrants. Songhai is also a descendant of the Lenape and Iroquois native people of the ...

  6. Colin de Land - Wikipedia

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    De Land studied philosophy and linguistics at New York University . In 1984, De Land opened Vox Populi, on East Sixth Street in the East Village. De Land renamed the gallery American Fine Arts, Co. In 1986, it moved the space to 40 Wooster Street. Colin was an early supporter of Andrea Fraser, Cady Noland, Mark Dion, Jessica Stockholder, John ...

  7. New York Musical Theatre Festival - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .nymf .org. The New York Musical Festival ( NYMF) was an annual event held each summer from 2004 to 2019 in New York City 's midtown theater district. It mounted more than 30 new musicals each year, more than half selected through an open-submission, double-blind evaluation process involving prominent theater artists and producers.

  8. American Artists Professional League - Wikipedia

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    The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is one of the oldest fine art organizations in the United States. [citation needed] Established in 1928 by a group of painters, illustrators and sculptors in New York City, the AAPL is a non-profit organization for the advancement of traditional Realism in American fine art. The organization ...

  9. New York Live Arts - Wikipedia

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    New York Live Arts (Live Arts) is a movement-focused arts organization in New York City that serves as the home of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.The building was formerly the home of Dance Theatre Workshop, with which the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company merged 2011 to form New York Live Arts.Its activities encompass commissioning, producing, and presenting works of dance ...