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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 days

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The maintenance crew cleaning one of the two big chandeliers in the foyer of Radio City Music Hall, April 16, 1953. The job started at midnight and took eight hours to finish.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Matty Zimmerman #Radio City Music Hall #Rockefeller Center #maintenance #cleaning #chandelier #April 16 #16 April #vintage NYC

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queenoftheblacksky · 1 day

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (April 3, 2024)

#roman reigns #tribal chief #head of the table #the only one #the island of relevancy #bloodline #wwe #the tonigh show starring jimmy fallon #jimmy fallon #rockefeller center #new york #us #april 2024

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catdotjpeg · 2 months

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Hundreds of Jews and allies... took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt [Joe Biden's] appearance on [Late Night with Seth Meyers] and make it clear that supporters of genocide are not welcome in our city. 50 protesters were arrested. President Biden’s deadly foreign policy has expedited weapons sales to Israel, ignored the World Court’s determination that Israel is committing genocide, suspended funding to UNRWA, and vetoed three UN ceasefire resolutions. The growing public consensus on the need to prevent further loss of life in Gaza as the death toll eclipses 30,000 cannot be denied. Yet President Biden has still pledged an additional $14.1 billion in military funding to Israel. The President needs to start answering to the American people – not the far-Right Israeli government indiscriminately bombing the people of Gaza, destroying 70% of infrastructure, including hospitals, universities and the electricity and water grids.

-- Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, 26 Feb 2024

#palestine #antizionism #new york #nyc #manhattan #rockefeller center

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floral-grunge · 18 days

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Sheep at the Rockefeller Center

#Sheep #Floral #Flowers #Rockefeller Center #new york #Spring #Springtime #Easter

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artdecodude · 4 months

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Per the Rockefeller Center website, this one is merely called Sound & is to the left of Lee Lawrie’s better known ‘Wisdom’ outside the front entrance. Completed in #1934. #ArtDeco #LeeLawrie #rockefellercenter some folks say the character is talking onto a record. My theory is that they are telling the Hollywood Bowl a secret.

#art deco #newyork #rockefeller center #leelawrie #lee lawrie

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pwh3 · 5 months

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, New York City at night.

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twoseparatecoursesmeet · 2 years

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Rockefeller Center, New York, 1965

Mickey Crisp

#vintage #rockefeller center #new york #manhattan #flowers #fountain #mickey crisp #crisp

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itsloriel · 5 months

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#GIFER #vintage #spin #skating #ice skating #rink #skating rink #spinning #throwback #new york city #rockefeller center #ice skaters #archive gif #gifs

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obsessedbyneon · 8 months

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Street scene near Radio City / Rockefeller Center. From 'Inside New York' (1991)

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#scan #new york #rockefeller center #1980s #street life

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nando161mando · 5 months

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🚨🇵🇸WEDNESDAY NOV. 29TH: 6:00 PM RALLY AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER TO FLOOD THE TREE LIGHTING FOR GAZA!🌲

PRIESTS OF PALESTINE CALL FOR MOBILIZATION, NOT CELEBRATION!

BRING YOUR FLAGS, SIGNS & KEFFIYEHS AND SHARE WIDELY!

@anarchistmemecollective @antifainternational @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

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wgm-beautiful-world · 5 months

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ROCKEFELLER CENTER- NYC

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newyorkthegoldenage · 7 months

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Smoking while crouched on a beam of the RKO Building, still under construction, ca. 1932.

Photo: Charles C. Ebbets via Posterazzi

#vintage New York #1930s #Charles C. Ebbets #construction worker #heights #skyscraper #smoking #RKO Building #Rockefeller Center

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queenoftheblacksky · 15 days

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (April 3, 2024)

#roman reigns #tribal chief #head of the table #the only one #the island of relevancy #bloodline #wwe #the tonigh show starring jimmy fallon #jimmy fallon #rockefeller center #new york #us #april 2024

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pazzesco · 5 months

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🎨 Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo - My Grandparents, My Parents and Me, 1936

Wedding portrait of Matilde Calderón and Guillermo Kahlo, February 21, 1898

On July 6, 1907, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, the third daughter of the Kahlo Calderón family, is born in Coyoacán.

(left) Frida Kahlo at the age of four, 1911 (right) Frida at the age of five, 1912

At the age of six, Frida contracts polio. As a result, her right leg will be short and thin. Nevertheless, Frida is a restless, active child. Her father encourages her to do sports to strengthen her right leg.

1922 - Frida wants to study Medicine, so she enrolls in the National Preparatory School. She is one of thirty-five girls in a student body of 2,000 boys. At that time, to help her family, Frida works at a lumberyard, recording entries and exits. In her father’s photographic studio, she also learns how to color photos by hand with a brush.

1924 - The political climate becomes complicated with an uprising against president Álvaro Obregón. Frida’s mother, concerned about the lack of security, prohibits her from going to school.

Frida cannot see her boyfriend, Alejandro Gómez Arias, and cannot attend classes.

Frida Kahlo - Portrait of her boyfriend, Alejandro Gómez Arias, 1928

1925 - On September 17, Frida is seriously injured in a traffic accident. The bus she was riding with Alejandro was unable to slow down and was struck by a streetcar. Frida spends a month in the Red Cross hospital, where her older sister, Matilde, visits her.

Matilde Kahlo Calderón, 1917

Matilde, Frida’s older sister. Matilde will take care of Frida when she is sick and will oversee the correspondence with various physicians.

1926- Frida paints her first self-portrait.

1927 - Frida recovers enough to resume her social life. She continues to paint, now to earn money to help her parents pay her medical bills.

Frida Kahlo - Portrait of Miguel N. Lira, 1927

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera on their wedding day, August 21, 1929

Frida weds Diego in the town council of Coyoacán. She is 22 and the muralist is slightly more than twenty years older. Frida’s mother is of the idea that the marriage is the union of “an elephant and a dove.”

The Bus, 1929

Frida alludes to her accident in the painting The Bus, where she also depicts social classes in Mexico in the early twentieth century.

Diego pays off the mortgage that Guillermo Kahlo had taken out on the family home, and he puts the residence in Frida’s name. Her parents continue to live there.

1931 - Frida paints Frieda and Diego Rivera, which represents their wedding.

1932 - In Self-Portrait (on the Border between Mexico and the United States), Frida positions herself on an imaginary borderline, split between two realities: that of her country, where nature and traditions thrive, but that is also critical, and the visión of the neighboring country, dominated by machines and industrialization.

1933 - Frida paints My Dress Hangs Here during her stay in New York, while Diego tries to complete the controversial Rockefeller Center mural. In this canvas, Frida uses paint and newspaper and magazine clippings to form an avant-garde collage critical of reality.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in the home of Luther Burbank, California, 1931

Portrait of Luther Burbank, 1931

Between 1937 and 1938 Frida does 20 paintings—more than she had ever painted in a single year—many of which she exhibits in New York. Ixcuhintli [sic] Dog with Me is one of those works. Noteworthy is the dark-colored dress in the portrait and the cigarette in her hand, still considered a male privilege at that time.

1939 - In her canvas What the Water Has Given Me, Frida fills a bathtub with symbols to show her life experiences. Roots, a dress, a volcano, birds, insects, a building, her parents, a corpse float in an aquatic world, full of intellectual riddles/puzzles. Her ailment is portrayed in the wound in her right foot.

1942 - President Manuel Ávila Camacho commissions Frida to paint a still life for the dining room of the official residence. However, the first lady, Ana Soledad Orozco, finds the canvas overly suggestive and returns it to the artist.

Frida Kahlo seated at/on the Casa Azul pyramid with her Self-Portrait as Tehuana or Diego on My Mind, 1943

Frida again exhibits her work in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in the heart of Manhattan, and one of the foremost museums in the United States.

1943 - Roots

1945 - Frida paints the canvas Moses or The Birth of the Hero, after having read the book by the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: Moses and Monotheism. Engineer José Domingo Lavín Revilla, Frida’s friend and patron, had lent her the volumen and asked her to paint her own interpretation. In this work, despite its small format, Kahlo imitates the layout of the mural painting. The canvas will be displayed in 1946 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, with the title Nuclear Sun.

1946 - Tree of Hope, Remain Strong

1949 - In My Family (unfinished), Frida draws the genealogical tree of her maternal ancestors, of Mexican origin, and her paternal family, of Hungarian-German ancestry. By this time, the painter’s parents had already died and in the canvas they join the grandparents in a cloud in the sky. Kahlo also portrays her sisters and includes the enigmatic presence of a baby, perhaps Frida’s brother who died before she was born.

‘Frida Kahlo’s desk’, Mexico City, Gisele Freund, 1950

Frida paints Portrait of My Father, Guillermo Kahlo, using a photo of her father in his youth as a reference point.

On July 13, 1954, at the age of 47, Frida dies.

Days before her death, in her canvas with watermelons, she writes the phrase “Viva la Vida” (Long Live Life), thus naming the work and leaving a final testimony to her resilience and hope.

#frida #frida kahlo #diego rivera #Guillermo Kahlo #Matilde kahlo #cliff clavin #Viva la Vida #portraits #Moses #rockefeller center #california #mexico #mexican #luther burbank

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rabbitcruiser · 7 months

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