LW! is on a quest to find the hidden-in-plain-sight faces, figures, gargoyles and grotesques that embellish so many of our historic buildings. And we’ve found just the man to lead this adventure — architect and photographer Robert Arthur King, who is the eye and the lens behind the books Faces in Stone; Animals in Stone; […]
In the days before Instagram and “influencers”, who created the fashion trends and set the celebrity media abuzz? Michele Major of Bard College takes us back to the turn of the 20th century with a lush presentation on how the mass media of the day–newspapers, trade cards, fashion magazines–first turned actresses into internationally known and […]
Historian Daniel Czitrom isn’t particularly shocked by today’s headlines. Vote suppression, police violence, the influence of partisan politics on municipal services: the author of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Movement found them all in 1890’s New York City. Prof. Czitrom brings us directly into the fascinating world he found while […]