NY -- NYC -- New-York Historical Society -- Exhibit: Messages for the President-Elect:
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December 20, 2016 - January 20, 2017
What’s your message for our incoming president? Stop by the Museum's front entrance on Central Park West to read people's responses and post your own on our front glass wall.
This special installation is inspired by Subway Therapy, created by artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez following the heated 2016 presidential election. With a handful of pens and a few stacks of sticky notes, Chavez invited passersby at Manhattan’s Union Square subway station to express their emotions on the election. What grew could never have been anticipated—it’s estimated that more than 20,000 sticky notes were posted in the station.
New-York Historical Society has partnered with Chavez, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority to preserve a selection of the notes from Union Square. Messages for the President-Elect continues the spirit and dialogue of Subway Therapy as part of our History Responds program.
Through this initiative, New-York Historical remains on the forefront of contemporary culture. Its curatorial team mobilizes to preserve objects from spontaneous moments of crisis or exhilaration, such as artifacts related to 9/11, marriage equality celebrations, and the Stonewall Inn vigil for Orlando nightclub shooting victims. New-York Historical acquires and preserves significant items of American cultural history to hold in trust for New Yorkers, such as the Picasso curtain from the recently-closed Four Seasons Restaurant.
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NYHMSG_161221_01.JPG: Messages for the President-Elect
The New-York Historical Society invites you to participate in "Messages for the President-Elect," a forum for expressing hopes and expectations relating to the American presidency.
The project is inspired by "Subway Therapy," an installation created by Matthew "Levee" Chavez in the wake of the November 8 election. In a subway tunnel at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue, the artist encouraged passersby to express their feelings by penning messages on sticky notes. The emotional outpouring plastered the station walls, and the model quickly spread to other stations, cities, and countries.
New-York Historical has partnered with the MTA and the artist to preserve a portion of "Subway Therapy." This installation continues the spirit of diaoogue and extends the reach of the Presidency Project, New-York Historical's initiative of educational programs, public conversations, and displays that examine the US presidency and the practice of democracy.
NYHMSG_161221_06.JPG: #notmypresident
NYHMSG_161221_07.JPG: Women are people.
LGBTQ people are people.
We are all people, no matter our gender, our race, or our love.
Go Trump!! We are counting out you!!
Resign
Love everyone
Be kind. Canada [loves] USA.
NYHMSG_161221_09.JPG: Racist Sexist Anti-gay Lying Bigot. Go away!
Black Lives Matter
Please protect our rights. Don't take them for women.
NYHMSG_161221_11.JPG: Be kind please
The president is entrusted with upholding the laws! including the constitution
Don't give up -- Stand up
Nederland!
NYHMSG_161221_13.JPG: You lied your way into office. How will you earn the trust of US citizen?
Please don't be as crazy as I think u are!
God bless! Make America Great Again!
Sorry there's so much hate. We believe in you!
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Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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