WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITY!THE BIG APPLE! THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS! THE CROSSROAD OF THE WORLD!

MANHATTAN

FIRST DAY: arrival at our hostel a few blocks away from Central Park, in Amsterdam avenue.

Skating,rowing,horseback riding, ball games........:you'll find hundreds of green acres and a zillion things to do in Central Park!

the subway

First adverts in Spanish in the subway. This trip was to show how Spanish was important in the USA since so many latino- communities live there.

HARLEM

 Visiting Harlem and discovering African American history and culture. We attended a two-hour service in the famous Abyssinian church  and heard great gospel songs!

Jazz Museum in Harlem: Learning basics about Jazz music

 

 

Little Italy

 

 

Discovering amazing murals

strolling  in Chinatown

 

Living history in Ellis Island

Reading the stories and watching photos of the first immigrants. Moving!

 

Looking for a sign of hope and freedom?

Or looking for a French touch?

French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi modeled the face of the statue after his mother's.the internal structure was designed by Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel tower. It was a gift from France to celebrate the 100 th anniversaryof the declaration of independence.

the Tree word: English borrowed words from many languages

The Native American museum       

Manhattan was once the home of the Lenni Lenape Indians, they eventually agrred to trade Manhattan island to the Dutch for 24 dollars'worth of items such as knives and axes !The island was called New Amsterdam,later the English took over it ,changing its name to New York.

 

 

 

MORRIS JUMEL MANSION, Washington, Height

The oldest house in Manhattan 1765 served as George Washington 's headquarters in 1776. This lofty perch overlooking the harlem river, the Bronx, was an ideal strategic base against the British.

WALL STREET and the financial district: feeling like businessmen/women:

'Bull market' ? it means prices of securities are rising.In a' bear market' prices are going down

 

Paying respect to the first president of the USA : George Washington

New York STOCK EXCHANGE

 ST Parick Neo Gothic style cahedral in midtown Manhattan

 The new tower :  The One World trade center dubbed The freedom Tower  is the highest buiding in NYC reaching the symbolic height of 1.776  feet in reference to the year of the US declaration of independence( 541 metre) surpassing the height of the Empire State building The construction is part of an effort to memorialize the tragic events  during the attacks of September 11,2001 .

The Flatiron building

Originally the fuller building is considered to be a groundbreaking skycraper derives its name from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.

The Rockfeller building

 Grand Central terminal:The queen of railway station

BRYANT PARK

Ajouter une légende

 Inside the Empire state Building:Taking the lift for a 80-mile-wide view

 MADISON AVENUE

UNCLE SAM 's authoritarian look impressed us!

 SPANISH HARLEM GENTRIFICATION EXPLAINED BY THE DIRECTOR ANDREW PADILLACreator of the award-winning documentary
"El Barrio Tours: Gentrification in East Harlem",
photographer and street reporter.

Socialising in Spanish Harlem

 EL BARRIO MUSEUM

 

 Creating their own work of art from scrap of magazines

THE CLOISTERS

The Cloisters museum and gardens,  devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that largely date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.

A quick look at the Natural History museum

 

 

Discovering great Spanish Painters at the Hispanic Society of America

VISITING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

THE METROPLOLITAN MUSEUM

 

THE EGYPTIAN  TEMPLE of DENDUR was built around 15 BCE to honor the goddess ISIS

 

THE AMERICAN WING

BIRTH OF THE USA:1776 authors of the declaration of independence

FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE / WASGINGTON LEADING HIS TROUPS AGAINST THE BRITISH

Washington crossing the Delaware by Emmanuel Leutze is the largest framed painting on canvas at the MET

Native Americans sculptures

 

 

MEETING OUR PEN PALS in PACHAMAMA PERUVIAN ARTS SCHOOL

Sharing Peruvian Lunch with the head of the school LUZ

 Waiting our pen pals

 Visiting the classes

 watching a PE class

 walking in the corridors and discovering art work made by pupils

Attending a music class

discovering the rules of the school

 

Traditionnal Peruvian dancing with some pupils of the school

younger pupils singing

 

 

 TIME SQUARE 

 

 

shopping in Time Square

BROOKLYN 

 

 Eating the best pizzas at Grimaldi's pizzeria, Brooklyn

 

Exhibition: Art and civil rights in the sixties Brooklyn museum
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties offers a focused look at painting, sculpture, graphics, and photography from a decade defined by social protest and American race relations. In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this exhibition considers how sixty-six of the decade’s artists, including African Americans and some of their white, Latino, Asian American, Native American, and Caribbean contemporaries, used wide-ranging aesthetic approaches to address the struggle for racial justice.

Edward Kienholz . IT TAKES TWO TO INTEGRATE ,1961.

Barkley L. Hendricks (American, b. 1945). Lawdy Mama, 1969. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 533⁄₄ x 361⁄₄ in. (136.5 x 92.1 cm).

Barkley Hendrick's Lawdy Mama embodies the "black is beautiful" mantra by conferring the awe and reverence once accorded Christian altarpieces on the figure of a beautiful woman crowned with a large, halo-like Afro. Inspired by gilded Greek and Russian icons as well as Renaissance altarpieces he encountered during a 1966 trip to Europe, Hendricks applied metallic gold leaf to a shaped canvas, effectively enshrining his subject.

Norman Rockwell famous painting Kids in the neighborhood

Norman Rockwell left his iconic position as an illustrator at the Saturday Evening Post in 1963 after forty-seven years because the magazine refused to publish his more socially engaged work. This painting was reproduced in a Look magazine article on integration in the suburbs. Rockwell's decision to use children was deliberate, since they suggest innocence, and the baseball gloves allude to the great American pastime, a heritage shared by the children despite their racial differences.

Malcolm X holding up Black newspaper Chicago Illinois 1953 (Gordon Parks)

Moneta Sleet Jr . Rosa Parks, Dr and Mrs Abernathy,dr Ralph Bunche and Dr and mrs Martin Luther King Jr leading marchers into Montgomery,1965

Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. This is my way of saying yes to us.-Kehinde Wiley

Wiley transforms the traditional equestrian portrait by substituting an anonymous young Black man dressed in contemporary clothing for the figure of Napoleon. The artist thereby confronts and critiques historical traditions that do not thereby confronts and critiques historical traditions that do not acknowledge Black cultural experience. Wiley presents a new brand of portraiture that redefines and affirms Black identity and simultaneously questions of the history of Western painting.

 Robert Indiana (American, b. 1928). The Confederacy: Alabama, 1965.

 

In his four-painting Confederacy series, Robert Indiana merged Pop form and activist messaging to indict the systemic racism then violently at work in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana. Deliberately avoiding sensationalized images of violence, Indiana enlisted the authority of stenciled commercial lettering and sharp-edged areas of color to deliver an unequivocal condemnation. He additionally highlighted on the "map" of each state a place where heinous acts of violence had recently taken place.

Philip Guston (American, b. Canada, 1913–1980). City Limits, 1969.

In the late 1960s, Philip Guston experienced an artistic crisis: "I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The war, what was happening in America, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything—and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue."
Abstract Expressionism, his chosen style, no longer seemed adequate to the political and social unrest of the times. Abruptly, the artist began creating nightmarish, cartoonlike figurative work, repeatedly using hooded Klansmen figures to emblemize America’s violent and malevolent side.