This dog is one of the world’s most well-known supermodels. This lucky canine travels across the globe, wearing the latest fashions and getting its picture taken along the way. Photos end up in Vogue, Elle, and several other high profile magazines and publications.
Held in Chicago from May to October of 1893, it is estimated that the Exposition was visited by 27 million people (approximately one quarter of the American population at the time). For many, who had never visited Europe, it was their first exposure to classically inspired architecture, and visitors were often left wondering why their own cities could not be as beautiful as the impermanent “White City” of the fair. The aftermath of the Exposition saw the development of the City Beautiful movement, as architects—including Burnham and McKim, Mead, and White—oversaw plans to beautify, and thus “morally improve,” American cities. In Washington D.C. and Chicago re-planning happened on a large scale, but in New York the movement’s impact was more localized. Examples like the Dewey Arch of Madison Square are long gone, but Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Museum building itself belong to the legacy of City Beautiful.
But the Columbian Exposition had an equally large influence on another Brooklyn institution less concerned with morality—Coney Island. The Exposition’s midway plaisance is considered a prototype for all amusement parks to follow, featuring popular attractions like the world’s first Ferris wheel, a moving walkway, and “Little Egypt.” George C. Tilyou saw the Ferris wheel and was sufficiently inspired to make his own when he created Steeplechase; Dreamland emulated the whimsy and wonder of the “White City” with its electric lights, all-white towers, and lagoons. Check out the Museum Archives to learn more about American Renaissance and other past exhibitions, and be sure to visit the upcoming exhibitionsConey Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 and Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection.
#WomenBetrayed is trending, so I thought I’d post this in response.
Planned Parenthood was there for me during a gap of time where I had no health insurance. I have a recurring monthly donation to them set up on my credit card, marked for use as “wherever most needed”.
Here are some photos from IN//APPROPRIATE, a show of visual and audio media on display during July of 2015 at the Littman Gallery at PSU in Portland. The show incorporates digital collages and wearable “Whiteness Goggles” that make the colonial/military/police violence that underpin white supremacy disappear. It also includes a reappropriation of the gallery space by indigenous artists Sara Siestreem and Camas Logue, who are using it for drying basketry materials for fall workshops. Voicemails from Portland residents expressing their opinions on the subject play on two media players. The show is up until the 29th! The show website is http://inappropriateculture.tumblr.com/, where you can see all of the banner images and listen to all of the voicemails.
