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New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
In 1984 an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC was an International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Of the 165 important paintings and sculptures mentioned, only 15 were created by women. The furor of this inequity started the Guerilla Girls movement to end gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere . They created defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books and posters shown around the world. This call to action was to erase the double standard.
New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
Founded in New York City in 1985, the Guerilla Girls movement has been challenging feminine bias in art, politics, film, and pop culture since then. The catalyst was a 1984 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC which was an International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Of the 165 important paintings and sculptures mentioned, only 15 were created by women. The furor of this inequity started the Guerilla Girls movement of defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books posters, posted around the world. They had had enough of gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere. This call to action was to erase the double standard. It took the US film industry’s Academy Awards community until 2018 to get to the same place.
Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Flatiron Building
Toronto has its own version of New York City’s Flatiron building.
Austria, Wattens, Innsbruck: NYC Sparkles at Swarovski Crystal Worlds
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NYC and The Empire State building will always be number one.
US: New York City, New York – Empire State Building Dressed for the 4th of July
The Empire State Building gets dressed up for different events. On the Fourth of July you can see her red white and blue colors from near and far all around New York City. One of the best vantage points to view the iconic panoramic view of the whole Manhattan skyline is driving along the Brooklyn Queens expressway. you don’t even mind sitting in traffic, since it allows for more time to ogle the view.
NYC Restaurant’s On Sale: $24.07
NYC Restaurant Week, the City’s original culinary celebration and world’s first Restaurant Week—will feature more than 320 restaurants for its 20th Year.
The two-week event will take place July 11–24, Mondays through Fridays; Saturdays are excluded and Sundays are optional. For the 12th consecutive season, prices for the prix-fixe three-course meals will remain at $24.07 for lunch and $35 for dinner (excluding beverages, taxes and gratuities).
The full list of participating restaurants will be available at www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek on Wednesday, June 29, when reservations are open to the general public. Early-access reservations were announced on twitter yesterday. (http://www.nycgo.com/rw-earlyrez/?a=1&b=1&cid=fb_rw).