Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) - Keep It In Fiction opens November 3rd at BRAC Gallery

 

Molly Goldfarb, Santa Hey, 2018, digital painting, ed of 5, 30 x 61 inches

Bronx River Art Center Presents Keep It In Fiction A study of the different fictional narratives artists create in their work November 3-December 10, 2022 Opening Reception: Thursday November 3, 2022 6:30-9pm Curated by Stephanie Young Artists: Marcy Brafman, Jason Bryant, Jennifer Deppe Parker, Molly Goldfarb, Sally Jerome, Kerry Lessard, Marianne Petit, Zoia Skorodapenko, Mark Torres, Chao Wang, Natalie Collette Wood Bronx River Art Center is pleased to announce an exhibition that explores how artists disguise truth with fiction in order to arrive at a number of different conclusions. Through visual explorations artists seek out unlimited possibilities to distort reality in order to cope, reinvent, or escape their daily realities. Through art we can engage in a fictional form of truth. The eleven artists chosen for "Keep It In Fiction" will present narrative inspired work that range in media from paper and book arts, sculpture, prints, paintings and digital media. To expand the exhibition's intent each artist created a narrative excerpt, poem or video to accompany the pieces.

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Marianne Petit, The Story of the Man Who Went Out Hunting, 2014, Eleven paper cuts mounted on Canson watercolor paper, with Cover and Text pages (13 pages total) in handmade box, 9 x 13.25 inches, edition of 30,

"This is the man that shoots the hares: this is the coat he always wears: with game-bag, powder-horn, and gun he's going out to have some fun." This excerpt is from the classic German Struwwelpeter Fairy tale "The Story of the Wild Huntsman", a cautionary tale of tables reversed where animal becomes hunter and the hunter hunted. Throughout history artists have essentially disguised truth with fiction in order to arrive at perhaps a more accurate truth, one loaded with nuances. Struwwelpeter opted to create with the notion that it would teach young children important life lessons. He used the fairy tale format to get his ideas across. For this show Marianne Petit presents her version of Stuwwelpeter's fairytale ("The Man Who Went Out Hunting") represented in nine paper cuts that are presented in its entirety. This excerpt is from the classic German Struwwelpeter Fairy tale "The Story of the Wild Huntsman", a cautionary tale of tables reversed where animal becomes hunter and the hunter hunted. Throughout history artists have essentially disguised truth with fiction in order to arrive at perhaps a more accurate truth, one loaded with nuances. Struwwelpeter opted to create with the notion that it would teach young children important life lessons. He used the fairy tale format to get his ideas across. For this show Marianne Petit presents her version of Stuwwelpeter's fairytale ("The Man Who Went Out Hunting") represented in nine paper cuts that are presented in its entirety. Sculptor Natalie Collette Wood chose a video to accompany her sculpture. She is known for chairs elaborately overgrown with vegetation that could be imagined to be found in the abandoned garden of a Mrs. Havisham (from Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations —1861). Her video "Dream Dance" depicts dancers overlaid with nature, their movements representative of the tangled and random foliage found growing on her chairs. Jennifer Deppe Parker chose to create a poem that puts her in the first person of a natural disaster. Her painting "Typhoon" is depicted as a black and white account that strips away the details and leaving only raw emotion. These excerpts, along with those of the other eight artists, are displayed alongside the art works in order to push the artist and the viewer out of their comfort zones and encourage them to create their own ideas about the works. The following events will be presented in conjunction with this exhibition. Artist Talk: Saturday November 19th, 5 - 6:30 PM Closing Holiday market/party Saturday Dec 10th , 6 - 9 PM Curator Stephanie Young is an independent publisher/curator working in New York City. She publishes Vellum Magazine (www.vellumartzine.com) and has curated shows throughout NYC and beyond. She was the Assistant Director at Central Booking NYC (2014-2017) which specializes in Artist’s Books and curates exhibitions furthering the intersection between science and art. For additional Information contact Gail Nathan, (718) 930-7861 BRAC Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 2 - 6 PM Saturday: 12 - 5 PM Entry is Free

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Kerry Lessard, Eric, 2020, oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches

Up to date proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for all ages for entry to the gallery Attendees will also be required to be masked.

Hearing on NYC's Purchase of CSX Property - Wednesday, November 9th at 10 AM

 

Hearing on NYC's Purchase of CSX Property

Wednesday, November 9th at 10 AM

 

We are thrilled to announce that New York City will (finally!) purchase a section of property, currently owned by CSX, stretching from Van Cortlandt Park South to West 230th Street. The purchase of land will make it possible to extend the Putnam Greenway and implement the Daylighting of Tibbetts Brook, the largest green infrastructure project in New York City.

 

Learn more about the Daylighting Project.

Led by NYC Parks and NYC DEP, this momentous development has been decades in the making and could not have happened without the leadership of NYC Council Member Eric Dinowitz. Van Cortlandt Park Alliance's bold advocacy took the daylighting project above ground, instead of relegated to an underground pipe, as originally designed. Community Board 8 and Bronx Council for Environmental Quality have been essential, vocal supporters. 

 

The hearing is open to the public and will take place by conference call on November 9, 2022 at 10:00 am: Conference Call: 1-646-992- 2010, Access Code 717 876 299

 

You can submit written comments 2 days before the Real Property Hearing on 11/9. 

Please send your comments directly to Jacqueline Galory at jackie.galory@mocs.nyc.gov. 

If you decide to submit written comments, you must mention that the comments are related to the Real Property Public Hearing, Calendar#3 on November 9, 2022. 

 

CITYWIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES: PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS PUBLIC HEARING, in accordance with Section 824 of the New York City Charter, will be held on November 9, 2022 at 10:00 A.M. via Conference Call No. 1-646-992- 2010, Access Code 717 876 299.

 

IN THE MATTER OF the acquisition of certain lots, parcels, or pieces of land, known as Block 3266, Lot 11, Block 3267, Lot 72, Block 3268, Lot 30, Block 3269, Lot 118, Block 3270, Lot 75, Block 3271, Lot 100 in the Borough of the Bronx (the “Property”), as shown on the tax map of the City of New York. The City is acquiring the Property, to facilitate the Department of Environmental Protection’s Tibbetts Brook Daylighting Project, and Department of Parks and Recreation’s Putnam Greenway Extension. 

The proposed acquisition was approved by the City Planning Commission, pursuant to NYC Charter Sections 197-c and 199 on January 5, 2011 (ULURP No. C 090196 MMX; Cal. No. 19). The proposed purchase price is $11,200,000.

 

Further information, including public inspection of the proposed contract of sale, may be obtained, at One Centre Street, Room 2000 North, New York, NY 10007. 

 

To schedule an inspection, please contact Jason Morris, at (212) 386-5083.  

 

If you need further accommodations, please let us know at least five business days in advance of the Public Hearing via email at DisabilityAffairs@mocs.nyc.gov or via phone at (212) 298-0734.

Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress Combating Covid-19 - NOVEMBER 2, 2022

 

Governor Encourages New Yorkers to Keep Using the Tools to Protect Against and Treat COVID-19: Vaccines, Boosters, Testing, and Treatment

26 Statewide Deaths Reported on November 1

 Governor Kathy Hochul today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress combatting COVID-19 and plan to protect against the spread of viral respiratory infections that become more common in the fall and winter seasons.  

"As the weather gets colder, I urge New Yorkers to remain vigilant and to use all available tools to keep themselves, their loved ones and their communities safe and healthy," Governor Hochul said. "Be sure to stay up to date on vaccine doses, and test before gatherings or travel. If you test positive, talk to your doctor about potential treatment options."  

Governor Hochul also reminds New Yorkers that children ages 5 and older may now receive the bivalent booster shots that are recommended to increase protection against COVID-19. 

The Governor continues to urge New Yorkers to get their bivalent COVID-19 vaccine boosters. To schedule an appointment for a booster, New Yorkers should contact their local pharmacy, county health department, or healthcare provider; visit vaccines.gov; text their ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find nearby locations.  

In addition, Governor Hochul is encouraging New Yorkers to get their annual flu vaccine as flu season is widespread across New York State. The flu virus and the virus that causes COVID-19 are both circulating, so getting vaccinated against both is the best way to stay healthy and to avoid added stress to the health care system.     

The State Department of Health is continuing its annual public education campaign, reminding adults and parents to get both flu and COVID-19 shots for themselves and children 6 months and older. Advertisements in both English and Spanish language began running last month.   

For information about flu vaccine clinics, contact the local health department or visit vaccines.gov/find-vaccines/.

Today's data is summarized briefly below:    

• Cases Per 100k - 21.13
• 7-Day Average Cases Per 100k - 19.88
• Test Results Reported - 74,545
• Total Positive - 4,130
• Percent Positive - 4.87%**     
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive - 5.92%**      
• Patient Hospitalization - 2,846 (+51)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 499
• Patients in ICU - 307 (+25)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation - 114 (+6)
• Total Discharges - 357,440 (+392)
• New deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 26
• Total deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS - 58,853 

** Due to the test reporting policy change by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and several other factors, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.       

The Health Electronic Response Data System is a NYS DOH data source that collects confirmed daily death data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities only.      

Important Note: Effective Monday, April 4, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is no longer requiring testing facilities that use COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to report negative results. As a result, New York State's percent positive metric will be computed using only lab-reported PCR results. Positive antigen tests will still be reported to New York State and reporting of new daily cases and cases per 100k will continue to include both PCR and antigen tests. Due to this change and other factors, including changes in testing practices, the most reliable metric to measure virus impact on a community is the case per 100,000 data -- not percent positivity.  

• Total deaths reported to and compiled by the CDC - 75,079

This daily COVID-19 provisional death certificate data reported by NYS DOH and NYC to the CDC includes those who died in any location, including hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, at home, in hospice and other settings.  

Each New York City borough's 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows **:   

Borough	Sunday,   October   30, 2022	Monday,   October   31, 2022	Tuesday,   November   1, 2022
Bronx	5.94%	6.01%	6.28%
Kings	4.07%	4.12%	3.83%
New York	5.94%	5.86%	5.84%
Queens	6.38%	6.47%	6.57%
Richmond	5.41%	5.33%	5.53%