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Photography

In A Bad Economy, Even Opera Vocalists Sing The Blues

The soft labor market is a challenge for all job seekers. But young people who have trained for artistic careers—who help make New York a cultural capital—face unique obstacles. Do they also possess special tools to survive?

Deceased, Return To Sender: Writing To The Triangle Victims

As the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire approaches, one artist captured the tragedy's scale by sending letters to the dead.

Izzy, Ippies Honor City Limits

City Limits' magazine coverage of the Harlem Children's Zone, synthetic turf in city parks and other topics garnered three journalism prizes this week.

A Poster Child For Poverty In Harlem Speaks Back

John Yant and his family were featured in the 1969 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit "Harlem on My Mind." Here he describes how it feels to become a representation of poverty.

Bronx Museum Revisits The Civil Rights Movement

Two exhibits at the Bronx Museum of the Arts explore the civil rights movement -- one though iconic and obscure documentary photos, the other through contemporary multi-media produced by artists born after the movement.

A Quiet Alarm Sounds

A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.

Into the Wild:
Nature's NYC

A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.

The City's Latest
Hirings and Retirings

A new state education leader takes the helm, as more New Yorkers head to Washington and the Pratt Center gets a new director.

It Takes 'Elan' To Make
Hot-Button Issues Cool

From a little office in Brooklyn, a new magazine reaches around the world to explore the lives and lifestyles of Muslim cosmopolites.

Workaday Lives
As Everyday Art

"Unseen America" invites another look at the lovely and the mundane.

Near And Present Danger:
Freedom In Today's City

The new issue of City Limits Investigates surveys the state of liberties in post-September 11 New York.

Paths More Traveled:
Youths Distill Migration

When you're young and new to New York, a move between continents -- or boroughs -- makes an impression.

Why 'The Other Half'
Lived -- And Lives On

A book explores the ideology and influence of Jacob Riis.

The City's Latest
Hirings and Retirings

Filling policy shoes at FPWA, a new city family services coordinator, and a host of other moves around government and nonprofits this fall.

Black And White And
Forgotten All Over?

The tragedy of the high school newspaper used to be it didn't get read. But at the majority of city high schools today, it doesn't even get produced.

Portrait of the Artist
As A Young Student

An exhibit of artworks from the public schools is impressive and varied.

FROM TAKING PICTURES TO LEARNING ENGLISH

Amateur photos bring immigrants' lives to a gallery setting.

UNSEENAMERICA

Photos and Stories by Workers; Edited by Esther Cohen; Regan Books; $39.95.

BEHIND THE VEIL

A new exhibit of photographs taken by Afghan women living in New York highlights their struggles and successes. City Limits visits the show, now up at the Queens Museum.


Arts and Culture
The development of a vibrant and thriving arts community is only natural in a city as diverse as New York. While City Limits is most identified with thorough and hard-hitting social and political reportage, our breadth of arts and culture-based coverage will surprise and enlighten you.






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