The New York Times – Film:
One of the 20th century’s biggest media formats was often thrown out in the rush to embrace VHS. But preservationists say visual history is being lost.
Category: Archives and Records
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How Absolut Pitched Itself as the Gay Vodka
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The Swedish liquor brand Absolut began its courtship of gay consumers with a 1981 print ad. “We were the Pied Piper in magazines,” one executive recalled.
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Bruce Springsteen Talks About His Place in American Music
The New York Times – Music:
As he opens an expansive cultural center not far from the Jersey Shore boardwalk, the singer describes himself as “a small link in a big chain.”
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Bruce Springsteen Opens His Music Center
The New York Times – Music:
Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy and others joined him to ring in the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, a $50 million archive and cultural hub.
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How to See Rare Books in London
The New York Times – Travel:
Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.
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A Chicago Man’s 10,000 Concerts on Tape Are Becoming Digital History
The New York Times – Music:
From the mid-1980s until just a few years ago, Aadam Jacobs recorded thousands of club shows, including an early Nirvana performance. Volunteers are adding them to an online archive.
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Agosto Machado Is Dead; Artist Memorialized New York’s Avant-Garde
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
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In ‘Passerby,’ an Artist Documents Women’s Lives One Photo at a Time
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
For a decade, Clémence Polès Farhang asked women on city streets if she could take their picture. This week, the photographs had their first exhibition.
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Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
The New York Times – Music:
The Television frontman died in 2023, leaving behind boxes of music and notebooks that are now headed to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.