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Artists’ Residencies
Web resources
Okay,
it’s time to get out of your ratty (albeit charming) garret
and into an artist-in-residence program. Idyllic spots devoted
to the nurturing of creativity exist all over the globe.
Deadlines for many programs are fast approaching, so start
your research now. We recommend three sites—Alliance
of Artist Communities (best for finding residencies in the
U.S.), The
Association of Residential Arts Centres, and Trans
Artists (more international in scope). These sites can’t
fill out applications for you, or write glowing references,
but they can help you figure out all the rest.
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Urban Glass
647 Fulton
Street
Brooklyn,
NY
(718)
625-3685
For
those willing to sweat in the service of delicate, translucent
objets, this not-for-profit center offers classes or
individual lessons in glassblowing, as well as other
techniques like beadmaking, enameling, and the evocatively
named slumping. Those who already know how to turn a
searing-hot glob into a wafer-thin wine goblet can rent time
by the hour at the facilities. A small store full of
light-catching wares is open seven days a week, as is the
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Re-Covering the Cityscape
The
project website
Michele Brody’s
public art project entails replacing three dozen Manhattan
manhole covers with uniquely cast covers in ten new designs
honoring lost New York history. Brody?s designs, inspired by
the architecture of demolished buildings, attest that elegance
and charm can reside in the most unlikely places. The
accompanying descriptions on the project’s website brim with
details both curious and fascinating: discover the connection
between eighteenth-century slaughterhouses, the Five Points
slum district, and the sinking ground in a small park between
Centre and Lafayette streets.
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The Mercer Museum, Moravian Tile Works,
and Fonthill
84 South Pine
St.
Doylestown
,
PA
(215)
345 0210
Just
a few miles from touristy New Hope in Bucks County, PA, you’ll
find living monuments to the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Eccentric polymath Henry Chapman Mercer built three edifices
to house treasures from a life of insatiable curiosity. Mercer
Museum holds the man’s many collections of antiquities. The
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (above) is still in operation,
hand-casting decorative tiles using Mercer’s designs. Most
overwhelming is Fonthill, Mercer’s home, a twisting castle
with priceless tiles culled from all over the world set
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Do Hwa
55 Carmine Street
(between 7th and Bedford)
NYC 10014
(212)
414-2815
The
look is even and tranquil—slate-blue walls, wide bar, exposed
bulbs, their filaments softly flickering. But Do Hwa’s upscale
Korean food means sharp flavors: pickled, barbecued, peppered.
In a corner, DJs set up shop, project movies onto the wall,
and spin smooth grooves with unexpected contrasts. On a recent
night, as the bar was lined with glasses of single malt,
shiraz, Bombay, and a sake concoction that the bartender had
put down with a dubious look, even Dolly Parton got into the
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