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Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show
Nature & Gardens

Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show

Science Magazine - North America's birds are disappearing from the skies at a rate that's shocking even to ornithologists. Since the 1970s, the continent has lost 3 billion birds, nearly 30% of the total, and even common birds such as sparrows and blackbirds are in decline, U.S. and Canadian researchers report this week online in Science. "It's...
September 20, 2019
Nature & Gardens

The 9/11 Tribute Lights Are Endangering 160,000 Birds a Year

The New York Times - Every year on Sept. 11, two soaring beams of light turn on over Lower Manhattan in a glowing tribute to those killed 18 years ago. Observers looking closely can spot dots and shapes gathering inside the towers of light, moving, multiplying, wheeling lower and...

September 9, 2019
The 9/11 Tribute Lights Are Endangering 160,000 Birds a Year
Nature & Gardens

Leon Levy Foundation Supports NYC Audubon’s Project Safe Flight – Helping Birds Migrate Safely Through New York City

NYC Audubon collaborated with Audubon NY and the Bird-Safe Building Alliance to support bird-friendly bills.      The bills would include establishing a bird-friendly building council and requiring that bird-safe building criteria be taken into account in new and altered buildings in New York City.
August 19, 2019
Leon Levy Foundation Supports NYC Audubon’s Project Safe Flight – Helping Birds Migrate Safely Through New York City
Ancient World

Dancing with the Ancients – Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes

The New York Review of Books - There is no full way to capture the presence of dance except through dance itself. The recent exhibition “Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes” at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World speaks to this tension—between dance and the...

July 22, 2019
Dancing with the Ancients – Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes
Ancient World

Goliath the Greek? Human remains from Ashkelon, and ancient cemetery in southern Israel, have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites

The Washington Post - The Philistines mostly resided in five cities along the southern coast of what is today Israel and the Gaza Strip during the early Iron Age, around 3,000 years ago. In the Bible, David fought the Philistine giant Goliath in a duel, and Samson slew a thousand of their warriors with the...
July 8, 2019
Goliath the Greek? Human remains from Ashkelon, and ancient cemetery in southern Israel, have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites
Ancient World

Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines – Historical accounts and archaeology agree that the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible were ‘different’—but how different were they really?

National Geographic - The first every study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine site is providing a unique genetic insight into the origins of some of the most notorious troublemakers of the Old Testament.
The authors of the Hebrew Bible made it clear that the Philistines were not like...
July 8, 2019
Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines – Historical accounts and archaeology agree that the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible were ‘different’—but how different were they really?
Archives Arts & Humanities Nature & Gardens

NYBG Opens its largest ever show: “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx”

The New York Times - “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx” has taken over the New York Botanical Garden — and offers an exuberant gust of tropical modernism that will thrill anyone caught in the concrete jungle. Burle Marx, Brazil’s greatest landscape designer, hasn’t lacked for institutional attention...

June 20, 2019
NYBG Opens its largest ever show: “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx”
Arts & Humanities

10th Annual BIO Conference, held in conjunction with the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center

June 7, 2019 - David W. Blight won the 2019 Plutarch Award for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Members of Biographers International Organization selected the winning book, which was announced on May 18, at the 10th Annual BIO Conference, held in conjunction with the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, City University of New...
June 14, 2019
10th Annual BIO Conference, held in conjunction with the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center
Ancient World

NYT New York Art Galleries – What to See Right Now! Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes

The New York Times - As more museums commit to collecting and exhibiting contemporary dance, expect more shows that delve into the discipline’s history. For example, the delightful, illuminating “Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes” at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.
May 24, 2019
NYT New York Art Galleries – What to See Right Now! Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes
Ancient World

A Thread of Undying Inspiration at ISAW through June 2nd

The New York Times - From the Renaissance to the Ballets Russes, a Parisian dance troupe that amazed and scandalized European audiences for two decades in the 1910s and 20s, ancient Greek art has been an inexhaustible font of inspiration and ideas. The sumptuous “Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and

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May 17, 2019
A Thread of Undying Inspiration at ISAW through June 2nd