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  2. List of public art in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Public art in New York City includes statues, memorials, murals, fountains, and other forms. The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [ 1] More than 300 sculptures can be found on the streets and parks of the New York metropolitan area, many of which were created by notable sculptors ...

  3. 1966 New York City smog - Wikipedia

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    William Wise, describing his view from an airplane delayed in landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Wise was returning from London, where he had been researching the 1952 Great Smog of London. The city chose not to declare a smog alert on Thanksgiving Day, but The New York Times later reported that city officials had been "on the verge" of calling an alert. Austin Heller, the city ...

  4. List of bands formed in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Chic. The Chiffons. Cibo Matto. Circus Mort. The City and Horses. Class Actress. The Coachmen. Coheed and Cambria. The Cold Crush Brothers.

  5. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change (1976) Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (Cambridge UP, 2001). online; Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press.

  6. Culture of New York City - Wikipedia

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    Culture of New York City. New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world. [1][2][3] The culture of New York is reflected in its size and ethnic diversity. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. [4] Many American cultural movements first emerged in the ...

  7. New York City (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 120 cm × 115.2 cm (47 in × 45.4 in) [2] Condition. upside down. Location. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany [2] New York City[a] is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by Piet Mondrian, completed in 1942. It is on display in the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. [1]

  8. New York Dada - Wikipedia

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    New York Dada. New York Dada was a regionalized extension of Dada, an artistic and cultural movement between the years 1913 and 1923. Usually considered to have been instigated by Marcel Duchamp 's Fountain exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, and becoming a movement at the Cabaret Voltaire in ...

  9. New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York, often called New York City[b]or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York Stateon one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global centerof finance[11]and commerce, culture, technology,[12 ...