The New York Times Friday September 12, 2025
Soon after the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, filmmakers Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder placed an ad in The Village Voice newspaper asking for amateur video footage that would serve as “a testament to our city’s heroism, pain, strength and resilience.” More than 100 people responded with footage shot from apartment windows and rooftops, on street corners and in parks. Now, reports The New York Times, the New York Public Library has acquired the archive.
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DIYPhotography Friday September 12, 2025
One of the season’s most anticipated tools has just arrived, noted DIY Photography: SmokyMountains.com has released its annual Fall Foliage Prediction Map for 2025. The 2025 version uses an even more refined data model, blending historical weather patterns, long-term forecasts, tree species data, and user-submitted leaf reports to provide a colorful and detailed view of when and where fall will peak across the country. Go here to get it.
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Museum of Art + Light Friday September 12, 2025
Depictions of rural life in the south during the Great Depression have been predominantly focused on white people, but a new exhibition at the Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kansas, provides a fuller picture, notes The Guardian. The exhibition, “Crafting Sanctuaries:Black Spaces of the Great Depression South” (through March 9, 2026) spans the work of Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.
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ARTnews Friday September 12, 2025
After weeks of speculation about how the Smithsonian Institution would respond to the Trump administration’s executive order calling for a review of the museum network’s programming, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III announced that the institution would conduct its own review to ensure programming and content is “nonpartisan and factual.” He stressed, however, that the Smithsonian remains independent, noted Art News. Bunch recently had lunch with President Donald Trump after the White House released a bullet-pointed list of artworks in the Smithsonian’s museums that it appeared to denounce.
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