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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the January 2023 GothemToGo Art Roundup
Art Installation Roundup
Josh Dorman, The Olden Days, 2020. © Josh Dorman; Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Exhibition opening January 5th.
2023 kicks-off with many of our favorite in-person events beginning with the Three Kings Day Parade and ending with The Winter Show back at Park Avenue Armory. Ring in the New Year with joyful song in Times Square and a day of service in celebration of MLK Day. Be inspired by a spectacular art installation at Madison Square Park. Explore architectural details and clues of the past at the historic Salmagundi Club in Greenwich Village. Music, Photography, Poetry, and Art will fill our January, 2023. Here are a few suggestions, including many still on view.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the December 2022 GothemToGo Art Roundup
Art Installation Roundup, Christmas, Holiday Season
From our archives in Bryant Park, 2020 Holiday Market
Buckle-up for a plethora of Holiday Events, outdoor art installation and exhibitions this month ~ from Tree Lightings and Markets to the new car-free Fifth Avenue, there is no end to the fun to be had this Holiday Season. In addition, we light a candle in observance of World AIDS Day on December 1st. Here are a few suggestions for the month of December.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the November 2022 GothamToGo Art Roundup
Chris Austin, The Biggest Fish Get That Way By Never Being Caught, 2022; gouache on wood. Image courtesy Harman Projects for the exhibition 'Chris Austin: In a Silent Way' on view November 5.
November brings with it a whole lot of Holiday Cheer from the opening of Holiday Markets to the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center. Also on tap are a number of exciting new art exhibitions. Here are a few suggestions for the month of November.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the October 2022 GothamToGo Art Roundup
Pull out your sweaters and get ready for some of our favorite annual events like Atlantic Antic, the annual Village Parade and all the Halloween and Fall Foliage events. It's time for Archtober and Open House New York, along with several major art exhibitions. Here are a few suggestion.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the September 2022 GothamToGo Art Roundup
Artist Lawrence Agnello, Mixed Media, at the Gracie Square Art Show, Booth #10, September 10-11 in Carl Schurz Park
Sprinting into Fall, September is filled with art, from The Armory Show, Armory OffSite and Armory week to The Poetry Festival, Feast of San Gennaro, Morningside Lights and the Gracie Square Outdoor Art Show. We're looking forward to a new installation at the Doric C. Freedman Plaza by Public Art Fund, Celebrating PEN America's 100 years of defending free expression in lights by Jenny Holzer at Rockefeller Center, and a spectacular exhibition, Hall des Lumières, at the historic 49 Chambers Street. The Met unveils its September facade niches, and we remember 9/11 + a plethora of thoughtful, beautifully curated gallery exhibitions, and even a $3 movie-day at a theater near you! Here are a few suggestions for September.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the August 2022 GothamToGo Art Roundup
Artist Christina Massey, Cracked Notion, blown glass, aluminum, paint, wire for the exhibition, 'Matrixes' an All-Women's Art Show at Kate Oh Gallery, Opening August 9th
It's August! Look forward to annual events like the Feast of Giglio in East Harlem, NYC DOT Summer Streets, and Morris-Jumel Mansion's 30th annual Jazz at the Mansion + The Armory Show kicks-off with Armory Off-Site at the US Open. Here are a few suggestions, indoors and out, Heading North or Out East, during the month of August, including Women's Equality Day on August 26th.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the July 2022 GothamtoGo Art Roundup
Artist Kim Gyoung Min in the exhibition 'the Pursuit of Happiness' at Kate Oh Gallery opening July 5th. Image courtesy of the artist and gallery.
It's Summer in New York! From a hot dog eating contest and fireworks on the 4th of July to Bastille Day Celebrations, Bodypainting Day, Restaurant Week, Manhattanhenge, and watching the sun set on the roof of The Met, here are a few suggestions for art installations, events and exhibitions in July, including a few suggestions for 'Out East' and 'Heading North'.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it's the June 2022 GothamToGo Art Roundup
Art Installation Roundup, Heading North, Out East
Tony Gum: Milked in Africa at Fotografiska NYC. 'Milk of Human Kindness', 2018 © Tony Gum
June is filled with celebrations, installations and events beginning with Pride Month, and continuing with a series of films and art installations in our Parks including Juneteenth, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, the Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, and Empanadas Street Festival, the River to River Festival, SummerStage and more. On the last day of the month, a preview of the very thoughtful 'What Hate Can Do' at The Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Heading out of Town this summer? Check 'Out East' and 'Heading North'. Here are a few suggestions for art installation, events and exhibits during the month of June, 2022.
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Art Exhibits, Events & Installations in NYC ~ it's The May 2022 Art Roundup
AIPAD, Art Installation Roundup, Frieze New York, NYC X Design, VOLTA New York
Chuck Stewart, Duke Ellington, c. 1940s In The Photography Show 2022 (AIPAD) in the Keith de Lellis Gallery Booth #221, Center 415, Opening on Friday, May 20th at 415 Fifth Avenue between 37th/38th Streets. NYC AIPAD NYC 2022.
Ushering in annual in-person events, May will open its doors to the ever popular Jane's Walk, TEFAF will return to the Park Avenue Armory, NYCxDesign celebrates its 10th anniversary, Madison Avenue prepares for its Spring Gallery Walk, the Roof Garden Commission, Lauren Halsey, will unveil at The Met, FRIEZE New York returns to The Shed, along with #FRIEZEWEEK including Volta and The Photography Show. The Chelsea Market's ARTECHOUSE explores the human brain, the Costume Institute at The Met unveils Part Two, and Salmagundi Club opens its doors to Light and Wonder: Photography Today + so much more. Here are a few suggestions for the month of May, 2022.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC in March, 2022
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Artist Miky (Yoohyun) Kim for her exhibition 'The Korean Archetype' at Kate Oh Gallery
Spring is in the air along with Fat Tuesday, Women's History Month, the St. Pat's for All Parade, and a plethora of food, fashion, fairs and art-walk events, Here are a few suggestions for Art Installations, Exhibits and Events in NYC during the month of March, 2022.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in February, 2022
Jeffrey Friedkin (RA 2016), Urban Nocturnal, 2021 (Minetta Street) in the Black & White Show at Salmagundi Club
February ushers in some of our favorite Annual Events from Black History Month and Lunar New Year to Groundhog Day and Valentine's Day. February also explodes with a number of beautiful exhibitions including Faith Ringgold at New Museum, Suchitra Mattei at Hollis Taggart, The New Bend at Hauser & Wirth, David Byrne at Pace Gallery, and the 145th Annual Black & White Exhibition at Salmagundi Club + much more. Here are a few suggestions for the month of February, 2022.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in January, 2022
Hana Yilma Godine, Hair salon in Addis Ababa #2, 2021, Fabric and oil on canvas, 60in x 80in at Fridman Gallery
Closing the door on 2021, New Yorkers will step into 2022 grateful to be living in the City that never sleeps ~ a city that never stops creating, educating and inspiring. Here are a few suggestions to brighten your days in January, 2022.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in December, 2021
From our archives in Bryant Park, 2020
The December calendar is filled with Holiday Joy, bringing back some of our favorite annual events from outdoor tree lighting ceremonies all around town to indoor and outdoor Holiday Markets. Here are a few suggestions for art installations, exhibits and a plethora of events during the month of December, 2021.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in November, 2021
November brings with it some of our favorite annual events ~ this year, in-person. Canstruction will raise money for City Harvest; The Art Show will raise money for Henry Street Settlement; The Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade, NYBG Holiday Train Show and LuminoCity Festival kick-off a festive holiday season. Art House will open its doors, along with a plethora of new exhibitions too numerous to mention. Here are a few suggestions for art installations, exhibits and events not to miss in November.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in October, 2021
Lino Tagliapietra, FENICE, 2012, glass, 13 x 47 x 4 3/4 in (33 x 119.4 x 12.1 cm) Image courtesy of the Gallery
New Yorkers will kick-off October with the Annual Archtober Festival, Open House New York, Blessing of the Animals, and Halloween Festivities! along with a combination of in-person and online Events. New Yorkers will celebrate the opening of The Mandela Lab at the Rubin Museum of Art, and a host of outdoor art installations from Socrates Sculpture Park to The Studio Museum in Harlem's nine-foot-tall bronze entitled 'Witness' by artist Thomas J. Price. Howard Greenberg Gallery celebrates its 40th with a move to two new locations on 57th Street, and an inaugural opening with a Gordon Parks exhibition. Here are a few suggestions for the month of October.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in September, 2021
Souleo.~ 'Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem opening at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opening September 9th. Photo credit: Abigail Ekue
Taking a deep breathe, New York City heads into the Fall season remembering 9/11 ~ followed by a return of some of our favorite annual indoor events likeThe Affordable Art Fair, The Armory Show and related venues, The Rubin Museum reopens its third floor to the newly created Mandala Lab; The Met unveils Part-One of the Costume Institute exhibition; 'Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem' at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a plethora of new gallery exhibitions, and outdoor installations and events including The Feast of San Gennaro! Here are a few suggestions for the month of September.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in August, 2021
The Summer Salon is now on view at Living with Art Salon in a brownstone located in the Mount Morris Historic District of Harlem. Above, Ceramic piece by artist Reuben Sinha with artist Tomo Mori on the wall in the background
This month, we lead our Roundup into August with three of many NYC Parks Department art installations that reflect the times we live in, as we kick-off the month outdoors with everything from miniature golf in Battery Park City to a plethora of concerts and walking tours. Many of our favorite annual events are back on track, like the 9th annual Hindu Lamp Ceremony in Brooklyn Bridge Park, East Harlem's Giglio, and the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival – plus a new mural that makes the Guinness Book of World Records. There are still tons of installations and exhibits "Still on View," and a few wonderful finds "Out East" and "Heading North," Here are art installations, exhibits and events to add to your list in August.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in July, 2021
Alternating Currents exhibition at Fridman Gallery. Yashua Klos; Vein Vine (2021); Mixed media; 60h x 84w in. Image courtesy of the gallery.
New Yorkers have a lot to celebrate this month, from Lady Liberty's Little Sister arriving from France on July 1, our own Independence Day celebration on July 4th, to a Hometown Heroes ticker-tape parade on July 7th. It's summer ~ our pools are open, the Riverside Park Goats are en route, the annual Body Painting Event is back, and outdoor art installations greet us in all five boroughs, including Kusama at NYBG in the Bronx, Ascending the Mountain and Reclining Liberty in Harlem, Re: Growth in Riverside Park, Alex Da Corte on the Met Roof Garden, Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park, The High Line, Melvin Edwards in City Hall Park, Rehearsal in Brooklyn Bridge Park, and many more still on view. Here are a few art installations, exhibit and events to add to your list in July.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in June, 2021
Penda Diakité (USA-Mali). Made In America, 2018 Collage, acrylic, spray paint on wood panel, resin finish 36 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist and Pitroda Art.
Nothing better than summer in the city. From Pride Month to Juneteenth, Museum Mile to the Tribeca Film Festival, River to River and an anniversary celebration in Riverside Park, here are a few art installations, exhibits, and events to add to your list in June.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in May, 2021
Artist, Anne de Villeméjane, sculpture work on view at Zürcher Gallery in Noho during Frieze New York 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
May unfolds with a plethora of outdoor art installations and music, new green spaces, fabulous online tours and the return of Frieze New York! Here are a few suggestions for the month of May.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in April, 2021
Katie Stout, Title to Come, 2021, Ceramic, bronze, Glass, gold, luster.; 69 x 32 x 17 in (175.3 x 81.3 x 43.2 cm) Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York. Photo: Blaine Davis
Welcoming Spring with open arms, we begin to visit our favorite restaurants, galleries, institutions, outdoor events and installations. Here are a few suggestions for the month of April ~ as we continue to mask-up and socially distance.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events in NYC to Add to Your List in March, 2021
Art Installation Roundup, St. Patrick's Day NYC, Women's History Month
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) The Harbor of Dieppe, 1826 (?)oil on canvas68 3/8 in. x 88 3/4 in. (173.67 cm x 225.43 cm)Henry Clay Frick Bequest.Accession number: 1914.1.122 ~ On view at Frick Madison.
In March, we celebrate Women's History Month and Saint Patrick's Day. This March, we also celebrate COVID-19 vaccines and a little more freedom, as we begin to venture out. March also marks the one-year anniversary of our city closures due to the pandemic ~ restaurants, schools, shops ~ the works. It was the birth of a new way of communicating through online meetings, workshops, classes, gallery exhibits, and more. Social media became an unexpected benefit for all those who were, under normal circumstances, unable to attend in-person events ~ the elderly, disabled ~ the many New Yorkers who are homebound.
In recognition of all those we've lost, and those affected by COVID-19, we begin this month's post with a link to the public art project titled "In America, How Could This Happen" by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. Let us take a moment to think about this past year, loved-ones lost, and what we've learned.
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Roni Horn, Detail from: LOG (March 22, 2019), 2019-2020 © Roni Horn, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth for the exhibition, Roni Horn.RecentWork
February 2021 is finally here, and our featured image says it best, we are paralyzed with hope. We kick-off the month in celebration of Black History Month, followed by Valentine's Day, and a number of new exhibitions and installations indoors and out. In addition, many previous exhibits and installations are still on view. Here are a few suggestions for February, 2021.
34. Beuford Smith, Harlem Children, Easter Sunday, 1965. Image courtesy Keith de Lellis Gallery. Current exhibition, 3 Points of View by Kamoinge Photographers, on view through February, 2021.
Adios 2020! A sentiment reverberating around the world, as we move forward into a New Year with art installations, events & exhibits, indoors, outdoors, and online, to add to your list in January, 2021.
Christmas Cab on Fifth Ave at 58th Street as part of Holiday Sculpture Trove of Treasurers along Fifth Avenue
In spite of a very difficult year, New Yorkers prepare to celebrate the Holidays. Our trees will go up, our lights will go on, our candles will be lit, our wreaths will adorn our doors, and our caroling will be virtual. Here are a few art installations, events and exhibits to add to your holiday season this December.
Nick Quijano, Mercado (Market), 2020, Gouache on Arches paper with varnished wood matte, 12.5 x 12.5 inches.
It has been a long and slow slog to November, with art installations and exhibitions echoing this sentiment. The Rubin Museum will create space on an entire floor dedicated to social and emotional learning; Zag Landsberg's 'Reclining Liberty' pretty much portrays our feelings thus far; while others look to a brighter future ~ Isolation to Revolution/Rebirth to Dissent at Pen + Brush; Unweave a Rainbow at Vito Schnabel Projects; 'We Fight to Build a Free World' at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 'Light of Freedom' unveils in Madison Square Park, and the exhibition, 20/20 at David Zwirner Gallery, speculating anxiously , rethinking and looking for a vision beyond. All of the events, exhibits and installations in November consider social distancing and offer a wonderful way to step-out in a safe way. Here are a few suggestions.
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Shellyne Rodriguez, The Debrief (Tres & Dalaeja), 2020 color pencil one paper, 19″ x 22″. Courtesy of the artist in the exhibition "Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment at Smack Mellon
Inching our way back to a new normal, October brings with it limited indoor dining, museums, galleries and an array of outdoor art installations, tours, and performances from Astor Place, the Garment District, and Hudson Yards, to Hunters Point. Harlem, Central Park Zoo, and Central Park's, Doris C. Freedman Plaza.
Here are a few suggestions for October, including amazing installations and exhibitions still on view!
Art Installations, Exhibits & Online Viewing in NYC to Add to Your List in September, 2020
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, opening at MoMA PS1 on September 17th
Stepping out of a muggy, hot summer, our City takes a giant step opening more businesses, museums and other entertainment venues, learning new phrases like timed-entry & physical-distancing, and considering face masks as necessary as our cell phones. Here are a few suggestions, new and still on view, in September.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Online Viewing in NYC to Add to Your List in August, 2020
hristophe Pouget, 'Canal Grande Concerto', 40″ x 40″ Image courtesy of the Fremin gallery in the new exhibition, 'Long Weekend.'
Now in Phase 4, our City continues to open its doors, navigating cautiously, keeping social distance and wearing masks. The green light has been given to low-risk venues like zoos and botanical gardens. Several galleries are now open with timed registration or limited capacity. Outdoor dining puts us one-step closer to 'almost back to normal', while indoor dining and bars remain off-limits for now. Here are a few suggestions for outdoor art installations, new indoor exhibits, and online viewing rooms to look forward to in August, 2020.
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Art Installations & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List + Online Viewing Rooms ~ July, 2020
Art Installation Roundup, COVID-19, Online Viewing Rooms
Jerome Lagarrigue, Besieged, 2017, oil on linen, 72h x 96w in. ~ Young Artists: One exhibition currently on view at Fridman Gallery. Image courtesy Fridman Gallery
Moving into the month of July, artists reflect in their artwork the very sentiment in our featured image entitled, Besieged, by artist Jerome Lagarrigue in the current exhibition Young Artists: One at Fridman Gallery. Best said by the gallery, here they "hope to not only create space for the voices of artists, but also to directly address the issues of systemic racism….." Art institutions, museums and galleries are doing just that.
As we move forward toward Phase 3 on July 6th, navigating through this difficult time, online viewing rooms continue to entertain and educate, taking us beyond our front doors, day or night. Below are just a few art installations, events and online viewing rooms to add to your list + installations still on view.
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Art Installations, Performances & Exhibits in our Parks + Online ~ June, 2020
Art Installation Roundup, Online Viewing Rooms
Online Viewing Rooms and our local Parks, large and small, have supported our efforts to stay healthy and positive during this difficult time. As we prepare for reopening June 8th, we continue with these creative ways to connect. June brings with it more than 40 art installations, performances and online exhibits to add to your list, as well as many Online Viewing Rooms & Tours still on view. Continue reading "Art Installations, Performances & Exhibits in our Parks + Online ~ June, 2020" →
Art Installations, Performances & Exhibits in our Parks + Online ~ May, 2020
Artist Margaret Short, 'Joker in the Tulip Bed', 2020; Oil on Linen; 13 x 14 in.; 33 x 35.6 cm. Annual Members' Exhibition in Galleries at Salmagundi online at the Artsy Showroom
Museums and galleries have shut their doors, but not their commitment to art and the artists they represent. Online Viewing Rooms have been popping up due to the ban on public gatherings, and parks and public spaces have become a respite for New Yorkers getting a breath of fresh air and enjoying a bit of open space. Here are more than 30 outdoor art installations, online performances and exhibitions to enjoy in May + a host of great viewing from past months.
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Art Installations, Performances & Exhibits in our Parks + Online to Add to Your List in April, 2020
Art Installation Roundup, Online Exhibition Viewing
Museums and galleries have shut their doors, but not their commitment to art and the artists they represent. Online Viewing Rooms have been popping up due to the ban on public gatherings, and parks and public spaces have become a respite for New Yorkers getting a breath of fresh air and enjoying a bit of space. Here is a list of some online viewing, free and available to the public now, and beginning in April, 2020. We will continue to add content, as more exhibitions open their doors online.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in March 2020
Yohana Holding Scissors © Cooper & Gorfer ~ Fotografiska Spring Exhibition
Kick-off the month of March with Women's History Month and a host of related events. March is also the month for some of our favorite indoor exhibitions like The Armory Show and Armory Art Week, Asia Week NYC, Architectural Digest Design Show, and The Affordable Art Fair; Museums and galleries open their doors to new exhibitions like Studio 54: Night Magic, Willi Smith: Street Courture, and Fotografiska's Spring Calendar, to name just a few.
We will celebrate the 110th anniversary of Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery on the Lower East Side, and bow our heads in remembrance of the 109th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire + wonderful exhibits and installations 'Still on View.'
Below are more than 20 art installations, events & exhibits in NYC to add to your list in March, however, due to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), many opening receptions & events have been cancelled or postponed. Be sure to check websites or call first.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in February 2020
James Guy (1909-1983), Capital Minus Labor, 1938. Oil on canvas board, 14 x 18 in. Courtesy Hirschl & Adler Gallery. At ADAA, The Art Show 2020
February is a big month for big shows like the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Winter Show at Park Avenue Armory, the Orchid Show at New York Botanical Garden, along with annual celebrations paying tribute to Black History Month, the Lunar New Year, and Valentine's Day ~ in addition to museum and gallery exhibitions focusing on political, environmental and other issues which are front and center in our lives today. Here are more than 25 suggestions to add to your list in February + many more still on view.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in January 2020
Outsider Art Fair 2019 at The Metropolitan Pavilion
2019 was filled with major art installations, many of them still on view, and a feast for our eyes, like Brick House on The High Line; The Horses on the Doris C. Freedman Plaza; T. rex: The Ultimate Predator; Wangechi Mutu and Kent Monkman at The MET; JR: Chronicles at The Brooklyn Museum, along with Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away; Roots on Fire; Birds on Broadway; City of Workers, City of Struggle and many more, indoors and out.
This December, New Yorker's posted millions of 'Wishes' in the Times Square NYE Wishing Well, with all those hopes and dreams raining down as confetti during the New Year's Eve Ball Drop ~ Times Square adding its own wish for the coming year ~ here in New York, science rules, as science teachers, along with their students, were invited to drop the Ball.
We look forward to kicking-off a new decade of Art In all five boroughs. Here are more than twenty suggestions to add to your list in January, 2020!
Wishing All a Happy New Year.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in December 2019
Bryant Park Holidays of the past
Tis the season for indoor artistic treks, from galleries to museum, and gorgeous holiday displays in a variety of public spaces throughout our five boroughs. Here are Art Installations, Events & Exhibits to add to your list in December, with more than 50 still on view!
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in November, 2019
Shahidul Alam (b. 1955, Dhaka, Bangladesh); Sailboat FishingforIlish; Daulatdia, Bangladesh; 2001; photograph; courtesy ofShahidul Alam/Drik/Majority WorldSailboats via The Rubin Museum of Art
The changing of the season brings our roundup of exhibitions and installation indoors, with a nod to the approaching holiday season. You know we're near Thanksgiving when the installation, Canstruction, arrives at Brookfield Place; The New York Botanical Garden sets up its annual Holiday Train Show; The Flatiron Public Plaza announced its design competition winner for their triangular plaza; and Macy's gets ready for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Put on your sneakers and get ready for Yayoi Kusama, arriving at David Zwirner Gallery, with all new work! Celebrate the founding of the city of Havana with three NYC colleges. Here are art installations, events and exhibits to add to your list in November!
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in October, 2019
'Obamaloon,' 2012,, Publication: National Journal, watercolor and gouache, Courtesy of the artist on view at The Masters Series: Steve Brodner, SVA Chelsea Gallery
October is a month filled with celebrations. We celebrate architecture & design with the annual month-long Archtober, and Open House New York weekend. One of our historic sites celebrates 300 years. We pucker-up to celebrate Pickle Day. Art in Odd Places celebrates life after 60. Poster House celebrates the historic Women's March. MoMA celebrates its reopening!, The Guggenheim celebrates its 60th anniversary. Fotografiska celebrates its historic new home in New York. Ending the month with the annual Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village + so much more. Here are art installations, events and exhibits to add to your list in October.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in September, 2019
Joseph Lee 'DREAMstate at GR Gallery
All five boroughs are blooming this Fall with art installations, exhibits and events ~ indoors and out. Look for a sculpture on the historic facade of The MET, Horses at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, the beloved Hippo Ballerina at Flatiron South Plaza, Photoville, the Honey Festival, the Feast of San Gennaro + a plethora of gallery exhibitions and fairs. And in case you missed them, more than 40 exhibits and installations still on view. Here are a few suggestions to add to your list in September!
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in August, 2019
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Summer 2019 Guerrilla Wall in El Barrio
It's Summertime ~ when nothing is better than life outdoors with the annual Summer Streets and Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. This year, adding to our list will be a 100-site installation by Public Art Fund, 7 new sculptures on the Park Avenue Mall, and The Harlem Art Collective's Summer installation on The Guerrilla Gallery Wall, addressing social and political issues in the news and close to our hearts. Be sure to check 'Still on View' for the many fabulous installations closing soon.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to Your List in July, 2019
Artist, Tomo Mori,' this life given' as part of West Harlem Art Fund's exhibition on Governors Island. Image courtesy of the artist.
Summer is heating up with lots of color in all five boroughs. Bringing it outdoors this month, here are Art installations, Events and Exhibits to add to your list in July, with more than 45 exhibits and installations still on view from earlier this year.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to your List in June, 2019
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June is a Celebration in NYC of #WorldPride and #Stonewall50 ~ The Stonewall Inn is June's Featured Image
On the heals of Memorial Day, we celebrate the beginning of summer with more than 50 outdoor installations and events from Coney Island and Roosevelt Island to Riverbank State Park. This month's Roundup of Art Installations, Events & Exhibits explores what's new, what to look forward to, and what's still on view. Here are a few suggestions to add to your list during June.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC to Add to your List in May, 2019
Nick Georgiou, Unassuming Self, 2019. Discarded books, acrylic ink and paint on canvas. 48 x 60 x 5 in. Courtesy Allouche Gallery
May is filled with Fairs and Shows from Frieze Week ~ which, this year expanded onto the Rockefeller Center Plaza ~ to Soho's Superfine, Art New York on the Pier, TEFAF at Park Avenue Armory, Contemporary African Art Fair, NYCxDesign, Sacred Sites, and annual favorites like Jane's Walk, Kips Bay Designer Show House, The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Annual Spring House Tour, Harlem EatUp! and continuing the year-long celebration of Stonewall50 at a plethora of events throughout the city. Here are more than 95 suggestion to add to your list in May, including what's still on view, and what we're looking forward to.
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Art Installations, Events & Exhibits to Add to Your List in April, 2019
Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019. A High Line Plinth commission. On view June 2019 – September 2020. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy the High Line
Get ready for Spring with exhibits and events that will take you from Plein Air on The High Line to Jazz at The Apollo Theater. Play it Loud at The MET and Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Step onto the Roof Garden at The MET and Remember Stonewall at 50. Here are a few art installation, events and exhibits to add to your list in April.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events Roundup to Add to Your List in March, 2019
Patrick Martinez, Coretta, 2019, Neon, Edition of 3, 1 AP, 24 x 30 x 3 inches
March is filled with exciting and insightful art shows, exhibits and installations including the annual Armory Show, Armory Week, ADAA, with its new component, the Upper East Side Gallery Walk, and the Affordable Art Fair. Foundations with extensive private art collections open their doors with new gallery space in Chelsea and the East Village, along with gorgeous, renovated space at the Ford Foundation. This month, we will celebrate Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day, the Flower Show, The Orchid Show, and a Design Show. As we inch closer to Spring, here are a few suggestions for the month of March, from the 1st to the 31st.
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Art Installations, Exhibits & Events to Add to Your List in February, 2019
Pedro Bonnin, Blue Tulip, Oil on Canvas, 49.5 x 45.5 in, courtesy JoAnne Artman Gallery
There's a lot going on in the month of February, from the celebration of Black History Month to the Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, New York Fashion Week, and a host of new installations and exhibits, including the relocation and opening of the Museum for Dogs here in New York. It's a month to Pop the Question or Renew Vows on the famed Red Glass Steps. It's a month to take a deep-dive into the life of #Frida at the Brooklyn Museum. Here are a few installations, exhibits and events to add to your February list, along with several that popped up late last month, and are still on view.
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57 Art Installations, Exhibits & Events to Add to Your List in January, 2019
Fritz Ascher, Female Nude, 1916, White gouache over graphite, watercolor, and black ink on paper, 17 3/8 x 12 1/4 in. Private collection, Photo: Malcolm Varon. (c) Bianca Stock ~ Image courtesy Grey Art Gallery/NYU.
Kicking-off the New Year with installations, events and exhibits reflecting the diversity of New York ~ celebrating music, dance, art, and photography ~ a comic book festival, an art fair, a dog museum opening, and a host of exciting exhibits from 2018 still on view. Here are 57 suggestions to add to your list this January, 2019.
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62 Art Installations, Exhibits and Events Not to Miss in December 2018
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Oh baby it's cold outside ~ but there are a lot of installations, exhibits and events to warm your heart, with the first part of our list devoted to some suggestions for the Holiday Season. Here are 62 installations, exhibits and events for the month of December, 2018 to add to your list, including current installations, some of which will be on view through October, 2019.
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64 Art Installations, Exhibits & Events Not to Miss in November, 2018
Artist Anyone Konst. "Free Peddler". Image via socratessculpturepark.org
As we move deeper into Fall, nature presents its own glorious exhibit of colorful foliage in every size and shape. Outdoor art installations that unveiled earlier in the year will be seen through our seasonal lens, many of them still on view through winter, and into 2019. November will bring us indoors, warming our hearts and filling our souls with thoughtful and colorful works of art. Here are 64 art installations, exhibits and events to add to your list in November.
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Just listen and show you care: Mike King's advice
Comedian and mental health advocate Mike King says teachers play a more important role than they imagine when it comes to their students' wellbeing.
(Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some readers.)
Mike King remembers just two teachers: his very best and his very worst.
He speaks fondly of Mrs Lough, his Home Economics teacher.
"I would never have wagged one of her classes. Maths on the other hand…"
The well-known comedian and mental health awareness campaigner spoke at the 2017 Careerforce Workforce Development Conference yesterday in Wellington, on the subject of suicide prevention and said adults play an important role.
In making his point that as a society we need to remove the stigma around talking about suicide, he asked the audience to stand up it they had honestly never had a suicidal thought. Just a handful of people rose to their feet, illustrating King's point that we need to eliminate the taboo around talking about suicide.
"Telling a person not to think about suicide, is like telling a three-year-old boy not to think about lollies," he said.
This stigma leads to more serious problems when young people have recurring thoughts about suicide, and fail to address them. His revelation that 80 per cent of young people who have recurring suicidal thoughts fail to talk to anyone about it, shows the extent of the problem.
King puts it down to the growing generational gap, in adults failing to understand how they are portraying themselves to young people.
A young person might share five things about their day, four of them positive, but adults – particularly parents – will focus on the negative, says King.
There is a focus on building resilience in our young people, which King describes as "just a PC way of saying 'harden up'".
Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald, who joined King on stage at the Careerforce conference, says our health professionals have a knee-jerk reaction to prescribing medication, rather than talk therapy, which is proven to be the most effective treatment for mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
He says what young people want more than anything else is to be listened to, and to have their opinions validated by an adult.
King says this is where teachers play an incredibly important role in listening to their students and showing that they care about them.
This role doesn't have to fall by default to school counsellors, nor do teachers require specialist training – after all, they are not only educators but adults who come into contact with young people on a daily basis.
WHERE TO GET HELP:
If you are worried about your or someone else's mental health, the best place to get help is your GP or local mental health provider. However, if you or someone else is in danger or endangering others, call 111.
If you need to talk to someone, the following free helplines operate 24/7:
DEPRESSION HELPLINE: 0800 111 757
LIFELINE: 0800 543 354
NEED TO TALK? Call or text 1737
SAMARITANS: 0800 726 666
YOUTHLINE: 0800 376 633 or text 234
There are lots of places to get support. For others, click here.
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Goldman Sachs has a distinctive business philosophy: the client comes first--after Goldman Sachs.
Take the Dragon Systems deal that Goldman Sachs was asked to underwrite. You will see how Goldman treats its smaller clients: it gives advice for millions of dollars but does not always deliver, i.e., it proved to be incompetent and misleading. Goldman has no mystique and only leaves a trail of broken dreams behind it. Conflicts of interest mean nothing to it.
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By Loren Feldman - The New York Times
THE business deal from hell began to crumble even before the Champagne corks were popped.
The deal, the $580 million sale of a highflying technology company, Dragon Systems, had just been approved by its board and congratulations were being exchanged. But even then, at that moment of celebration, there was a sense that something was amiss.
The chief executive of Dragon had received a congratulatory bottle from the investment bankers representing the acquiring company, a Belgian competitor called Lernout & Hauspie. But he hadn't heard from Dragon's own bankers at Goldman Sachs.
"I still have not received anything from Goldman," the executive wrote in an e-mail to the other bank. "Do they know something I should know?"
More than a decade later, that question is still reverberating in a brutal legal battle between Goldman and the founders of Dragon Systems — along with a host of other questions that go to the heart of how financial giants like Goldman operate and what exactly they owe their clients.
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Honors in Theology or Christian Ministry
The Dept. of Theology and Ministry is pleased to announce approval by the Undergraduate Policies Committee of the Department's new Honors Programs in Theology and Christian Ministry. These programs are associated with the two majors of the Department. For more information, please contact the chairperson of the DTM, Dr. Mark Koschmann.
Program Descriptions:
Honors in the Major in Christian Ministry
To receive Honors in the Major in Christian Ministry, an honors student must attain a 3.5 or higher in the major in Christian Ministry.
An honors student must complete the honors-specific assignments in the following classes:
CHM 321: Foundations for Teaching and Learning
CHM 440: Speaking the Gospel
THL353: Christianity and World Religions
In CHM 490: Capstone, an honors student must attain a A- (3.67) or higher on the final project.
Honors in the Major in Theology
To receive Honors in the Major in Theology, an honors student must attain a 3.5 in the major in Theology.
An honors student must complete the beginning sequence (2 courses) in one Biblical language.
THL219: Principles of Biblical Interpretation
THL431: Lutheran Doctrine 1
THL342: Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy and Christianity
On the Senior Thesis, an honors student must attain a A- (3.67) or higher.
[If a shared senior capstone becomes a requirement for all programs offering Honors in Majors, these two honors programs will add that requirement.]
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Dr. Rhoda Schuler has received a 2020 Teacher-Scholars grant in the Vital Worship Grants Program from the Calvin Institute in Christian Worship. She will again be partnering with Dr. Kent Burreson of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis for the research and workshops, which are part of the project. Drs. Schuler and Burreson reported earlier this year on the first stage of their work at the 2019 Hoffmann Lecture. The project proposes "to analyze the field research data on the adult catechumenate in the Lutheran church and to offer workshops that help pastors and congregations envision an adult catechumenal model that could transform their congregations."
Teacher-Scholars awarded Vital Worship Grants for 2020 by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) announced today that it will fund 15 grants to Teacher-Scholars for 2020-2021 as part of its Vital Worship Grants Program.
This stream of the Vital Worship Grants program recognizes that teacher-scholars in many disciplines have a unique role to play in strengthening and nurturing the life of Christian worshiping communities. CICW is excited to build upon the success of last year's inaugural teacher-scholar grants with this strong pool of Teacher-Scholars who will engage disciplines traditionally associated with worship such as theology and music, but also from psychology, performance studies, education, and anthropology.
These projects have a variety of emphases—youth preaching, worship across the spectrum of ability and disability, music and human flourishing, communication systems used in preaching, baptismal practices impacted by toxic water, and more—but have as a common purpose a desire to both deepen people's understanding of worship and strengthen practices of public worship and faith formation.
Kathy Smith, leader of the Vital Worship Grants Team, said, "We are delighted to join with these distinguished scholars to explore the ways that scholarship in different fields can contribute to the deepening of worship practices in congregations. We were grateful for a number of excellent proposals and are eager to facilitate their learning and ours, regarding worship across North America."
This year's recipients include scholars at five research universities, seven seminaries, and two regional Christian colleges, representing ten states.
Each grant (ranging from $10,500 to $18,000) will fund a research project beginning in 2020 that shows promise to serve worshiping communities by strengthening Christian public worship practices.
This is the second round of the Teacher-Scholar stream of the Vital Worship Grants Program, which has been awarding grants to Worshiping Communities since 2000. This new stream of grant-making seeks to foster vital worship by supporting teacher-scholars in any field as they do integrated research that connects worship with other disciplines of study and practice. The goal is to advance the flourishing of Christian public worship practices in worshiping communities.
"Teacher-scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have so much to contribute to congregations and parishes—helping us all see things we otherwise might miss, offering access to essential wisdom for ministry. We are grateful for each of these teacher-scholars and the promise of their work for strengthening congregational life," said John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
Since it began in the year 2000, the Vital Worship Grants Program has now awarded 892 grants to churches, schools and organizations across North America for projects that generate thoughtfulness and energy for public worship and faith formation at the local, grass-roots level. An advisory board of pastors and teachers from a variety of backgrounds assists in the grant selections, and the program is generously supported by Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. Founded in 1937, the Endowment's major areas of programming are religion, education, and community development.
For more information on the grants program, including a complete list of this year's grants recipients, please see worship.calvin.edu/grants.
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Dr. Mark Koschmann has been appointed as chairperson of the Department of Theology and Ministry beginning in January 2020.
Dr. Koschmann joined the faculty in August of 2015 as the Fiechtner Chair in Christian Outreach and as the Director of the Hoffmann Institute. A graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Koschmann received his doctorate in American Studies from St. Louis University. He currently leads the Hoffmann Mentoring Initiatives, including the Solus Christus Fellows program.
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Reformation Day 2019
Church History students at CSP celebrate the Reformation by displaying their "Luther's Seal" faux tattoos . . . taking "marked with the sign of the cross" to the next level.
Recruiter from St. Louis
Rev. Scott Holder from Concordia St. Louis will be here on October 16 to visit with students interested in pastoral or deaconess education. He will be in the Living Room in the tunnel (next to the Game rooms). Rev. HOlder will host a dinner that evening (5 pm to 7 pm). Reserve your spot with Dr. Deressa (deressa@csp.edu).
Hoffmann Lecture, Tuesday Night
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We hope all of you will join us at 7:00pm in the Buetow for this year's Hoffmann Lecture featuring Dr. Rhoda Schuler and Dr. Kent Burreson. Reception to follow.


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How Stranger Things 3's Strong Female Characters Made It the Best Season Yet
The hit series has been criticized in the past for its depiction of female characters—but season three aims to change that.
By Anna Moeslein
Reporting by Jessica Radloff
Stranger Things is such a beloved, massively popular series that criticism of the Netflix original has been surprisingly minor—unlike, say, Game of Thrones—though there's one area that had room for improvement: the depiction of its female characters. As this Vox review points out, past seasons have treated the girls of the group with something of a "there can only be one" mentality, like how Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) freaked out when Max (Sadie Sink) joined the gang.
Season three, now streaming on Netflix, aims to correct that. New characters Erica (Priah Ferguson) and Robin (Maya Hawke) have been added to the mix and given meaty parts; there's a whole storyline about Nancy (Natalia Dyer) battling sexism in the workplace; and Eleven and Max have become best friends. In fact, much of the action this season involves the female characters taking charge—as when Robin solves the Russian code or Nancy convinces Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) to investigate the rats with her.
"I feel like all the women are starting to take action," Cara Buono (who plays Karen Wheeler) tells Glamour. "They have to be persuasive...I think that's a really great theme of this season. I think it will bode well for future seasons and to see where that leads."
"It's so important to have those boys and their friendship, but this season we needed to see the girls on screen too."
Dyer credits co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer for this new theme. "They are sensitive to their female storylines, which is not true of all male writers and directors," she says. When she read the scripts for this season, she felt Nancy's issues with sexist coworkers at her summer internship would be relatable for many women. "I've often been asked lately if I drew from any particular experiences for those scenes," she tells us, "and I'm like, 'Just being a woman in the world, you can draw on that pretty quickly.'"
Dyer adds that in season one Nancy didn't have the same drive and confidence she carries in season three. "She's grown a lot, and it really helps her speak up and find her truth and sense of justice and dignity," she says. "She realizes it's her right to be here and be respected and be a human and be heard and not degraded."
As determined as Nancy is this season, there's a moment when she doubts herself—and it's her mother, Karen, who gives her the pep talk needed to push forward. "The dynamic between Nancy and her mother in past seasons has been more of the teenager hiding things and pushing her mom away," Dyer says. "So it was really nice to have that moment."
Dyer says she's glad the show included a moment many women likely experience—a time when you're feeling down and just want your mom to comfort you. "Like, 'Tell me how you got through this. Tell me what you did,'" she explains. "There's that oral history of the mother passing on knowledge; in some ways for women it's almost like a secret knowledge of how to survive in this world. There's such a beautiful dynamic in that scene."
As for Buono, she hopes the pep talk has just as much an effect on Karen as it does Nancy. "Karen's speech clearly inspires Nancy. And who knows, maybe going forward we'll see Karen get to be a little selfish too," she says. "Maybe she can do something for herself and get back to something she wanted to do and take a risk now. She's giving advice to Nancy—but maybe she'll take her own advice."
Of course, another crucial bonding moment this season comes from Max and El's new friendship. They connect as most teen girls do: trips to the mall, talking about their crushes, having sleepovers. "We've only ever really seen boy power on the show," Brown tells Glamour. "It's so important to have those boys and their friendship, but this season we needed to see the girls on screen too. It was so important for Stranger Things to embody that girl power—and what other way than to have Max and Eleven, two powerful forces, come together?"
"It was nice not to have girls that are fighting or petty…that they're able to guide each other and be role models to each other in their own different ways."
Adds Sink, "I love that you get to see two girls who are both powerful in their own way get along so well." Sink tells us she wasn't happy with how the show left Max and Eleven's relationship at the end of season two. "I thought it was going to go in the direction of pitting them against each other and having a weird rivalry or something," she explains. "But the Duffers were like, 'No, no, no, that's not the case. We're going to have a good bond between them.' I was so glad."
"It was nice not to have girls that are fighting or petty—putting them up against each other and comparing them," she continues. "I'm just glad that they're able to guide each other and be role models to each other in their own different ways."
Their costar Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) was also happy to see the two become BFFs. "Max is a great character," he tells us. "And it's great that El isn't just the girlfriend. She's also not just the weapon. There's so much to El, and she learns to function and be a human being in this world—and Max helps her do that. It's really inspiring."
Whether it's through new bonds or new characters, seeing Stranger Things course-correct does have an impact. It matters that a hit series can show a variety of characters with a variety of different backgrounds. As Dyer tells us, "It's not a show about sexism." That said, "I think there's power in showing those things reflected back at you in a show people love to watch—and it's a fun watch," Dyer says. "They hit [harder], in a certain way."
Anna Moeslein is a senior editor at Glamour. Jessica Radloff is the West Coast editor.
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Pros: We can manage so many things as campaigns emails... In the end, it needs a bit of time to understand it but once done, it is the best tool on the market, and free as it is open source.
Cons: Really beuggy at the begining, and especially if you are not a dev.
Overall: Very very good, and recommend. But need time to set-up properly.
Open Source Mautic - excellent tool for FREE. Setup is complex but works great once running.
Comments: We are extremely grateful to have this tool available and working for us each day. It's going great and we look forward to adding more campaigns as time goes on.
Pros: We are using the FREE open source version of Mautic, so please keep that in mind with this review. It is pretty complex to set up on your own, without the right people in place; however we were able to do it, and the product is GREAT. We have several campaigns running for different product types and all is going smoothly. We've spoken with Mautic staff and they are really great to work with.
Pros: I love how great the campings in Mautic are. The visual templates of emails and the easy use for customizing them is amazing.
Mautic use points system to see witch contact are the one's opening your email and helps to focus on the right path. Love how once you get to know the software everything just work and is your to make.
Cons: There is no white labeling, it definitively has some learning curve and the initial setup on cron jobs in a server can be tedious.
Overall: I can control EVERY aspect of my email marketing!
Pros: one of the best tools for online marketing, automation to send emails and running campaigns.
Cons: A user needs to train a lot to use it, its not that easy to use, research is needed to install, configure and use it as its supposed to.
Pros: My favorite part of Mautic is the A+ customer support. I'm never waiting more than 12 hours for an answer, even on nights and weekends, and the customer support staff are always willing to jump on a call to discuss my problem and offer assistance. The templates Mautic offers look fresh and are relatively easy to build. My favorite features, though, are probably campaigns and landing pages. The look and feel is so much cleaner than other softwares I've used.
Cons: I wish that there was a slightly more advanced Salesforce integration, but that's coming from someone who has used Pardot (a Salesforce product) in the past and the pros for Mautic vs Pardot definitely outweigh the cons.
Overall: I really enjoy Mautic. The support and product are both top-notch! It integrates well with all of our other systems and I would highly recommend to anyone!
Pros: I am using this tool for 8 months. It has great: Forms, Dynamic Content, Focus items, Progressive profiling. A lot of plugins. Powerfull tool.
Cons: Still a lot of errors... I have had the problem to integration with Hubspot. Documentation does not have actualization.
Overall: No one. I am using this software and promote it in Poland.
Overall: This is a great and easy to use marketing automation software. The fact that it is an open source project make the software very powerful in terms on new features. Every month, you're glad to use a new, modern and extremely useful feature.
Using mautic is simple as a child's play.
Mautic is a powerhouse which you can use to automate 65% of your inbound marketing campaigns!
Cons: The only con would be the easy of getting started. It does require a learning to get started and accustomed to the tool.
Pros: Open Source: you can change what you want and install it on your servers.
Full of features: campaigns, forms, assetts, pages, workflow... everything you need.
Cons: Not so easy to use: it's quite difficult to use so you need to understand its components before to make it productive.
Pros: The fact that it's open source and allows your marketing team to customize it, as long as you have developers available to help with that.
Pros: That it can monitor the digital interactions of your prospects and deliver dynamic content to them based on those actions.
Cons: No real support and seems like you need more then an intermediate knowledge to get it up and running.
Overall: This looks like an AMAZING platform but honestly I wouldn't know... I have been struggling to get the platform to work for ~18 months. I am by no means a coding wizard or a novice, and my troubles have not been a consistent go at operating it. However I have tended to put it off over and over again because whenever I try and set it up I need to uninstall it and reinstall it. This review is more of a rant than anything I know that there are several people that have had great success. All in all I would say that if you think that you can get it up and running do it it looks great but to date I have not been able to and that is obviously sad and frustrating.
Recommendations to other buyers: Find someone that has used it before to set it up for you.
any marketer that want to follow his or her visitors for the sight without any facebook help or blocks.
Plug Talent is pretty easy to use straight forward.
1) you can choose other SMTP to send emails, like mandrill, sendgrid, amazon ses.
1) Don't have a phone support. Its not so good for companies that is not confortable with ticket system.
2)Only 3 themes for landing pages.
3)Dont have a funnel report to identify the marketing and sales steps, how many leads and customers per steps and per traffic source, rate conversion per step.
Pros: - ability to use Amazon SES for email marketing email delivery, virtually eliminating the cost for most small to mid-size businesses.
Overall: This is open source, so I'm optimistic where this will go. Have not had an opportunity to use the marketing triggers yet, which is it's main benefit. However, the ability to expand the contact data collection and use email marketing functionality has been encouraging, but even in this, it was a chellenge to find a responsive template.
Overall: I have using Mautic since 2015 with a lot of instances working up today. Love the product and is the next big guy in marketing automation software.
A great inbound marketing tool with lots of potential.
Pros: Mautic has a lot of potential and the pricing is great for small businesses.
Cons: The landing page builder is difficult to use and so is the form builder.
There is no customer support or tutorial to guide you on how to make the most of the features.
Overall: I came across Mautic while searching for a free alternative to Hubspot marketing tools, because $200 monthly while worth it wasn't in my client's budget. I went through their features with a smile on my face and nothing made me happier than knowing it was free.
I love being able to upload files to Mautic as an asset and then link them to landing pages for lead generation. The problem is that creating a landing page on Mautic is hell, it has been four months, I've read the manual (The part on how to create landing pages), I've gone through the Mautic blog hoping for an explanatory post, but nope.
I gave up because it was difficult to create a form with lots of details mostly drop down fields and radio select fields. Creating a form that I am pleased with has been tough but it's nothing compared to creating a landing page, where using a blank template or using one of the existing templates. It drove me back to Agile which in turn drove me to Privy.
Like AgileCRM, I still haven't completely given up on Mautic, I just hope they make their interface easy to use, include mini tutorials to make it less overwhelming and make the form creation/ landing page creating easier and smoother.
I haven't used the contacts feature as I never got past the lead generation tools.
I found Mautic to be extremely useful and extendable. Out of the box it has great function.
Pros: It is amazingly easy to get and use. I've been able to sync it with Google and Zoho. I like the geo targeting. Best features are automation and dynamic content serving.
Cons: The updates always crash my system. Also, built in crm is very weak. I use Zoho as main management tool.
Pros: I like the extensive functionality of the service. It has saved huge amounts of my time.
Cons: There is no real tech support and the video tutorials on youtube are old.
Overall: We are using Mautic to create landing pages and forms. Also popups on our own site.
Pros: It has most of the functionality you need from a marketing automation platform. But it's a fraction of the cost and will eventually be pretty disruptive for the players in this market.
Installed some self-hosted Mautic instances for testing purposes.
Pros: The promise of Mautic's marketing automation is attractive, especially compared to the prices Hubspot is charging. Insights into and tracking of individual users is awesome.
Cons: Open source means support yourself - or invest in professional support. As a dabbler I would discourage anyone from thinking this is easy to do for free - you need to invest a lot of time in making it go, unless you're very savvy.
Overall: Low cost/free alternative to Hubspot. With a lot of elbow grease.
Comments: Installing and configuring a new Mautic server is complicated. However, if you have someone host it for you - it's not too difficult to use. Since most marketing automation software will cost you over $300 per month, this is a great option. It's nice to have an open source option that allows for customization that complies with regional and national regulations.
Overall: It is a great tool that have future, but I think it can focus more on the user experience, to easy use... some times it take so much to do the simple..
Pros: Has everything that I needed in a marketing automation software. Thier support team is always there to help with any issue.
Cons: It lacks live chat support. Secondly, a non-tech person can find it a little complex to use. Rest its good software I will always recommend it to other.


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Anabel Mitchell, first female prison warden in Florida, passes away in Tallahassee
When the marriage failed, Mitchell packed up the five kids and moved back to Williston. There she began a remarkable career as a prison warden.
Anabel Mitchell, first female prison warden in Florida, passes away in Tallahassee When the marriage failed, Mitchell packed up the five kids and moved back to Williston. There she began a remarkable career as a prison warden. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2019/11/08/anabel-mitchell-florida-first-female-prison-warden-passes-away-in-tallahassee-corrections-obituary/2531343001/
James Call, Tallahassee Democrat Published 1:40 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2019
Anabel Mitchell, 1924 - 20019. Mitchell was a pioneer in the corrections field. First woman warden of a male facility, first female chair of the Florida Parole Commission (Photo: Mitchell family)
Doug Mitchell made it home to Tallahassee with fewer than 30 minutes to spare Monday night to give his mom a final kiss goodnight. Anabel Mitchell, a pioneer in Corrections, passed away after a lingering illness shortly after her son's flight from Washington, D. C. touched down at 11 p.m. at the Tallahassee International Airport.
Mitchell was the first woman to be named a warden of a male prison when she was appointed the head the Lowell Correctional Institution in the early 1970s. At the time, the facility outside of Ocala housed both female and male inmates.
"She was a trailblazer, absolutely she was," said son David, of Chipley.
Mitchell had followed her husband from Williston to Quincy in the 1940s where she landed a position as a social worker and began a career as a state employee. But that marriage did not work out and Mitchell packed up her five children and moved back home to Williston.
In 1958, she accepted a supervisory position with the Department of Corrections at the newly opened Lowell facility and would eventually be promoted to assistant warden. She later would credit much of her success and inspiration in the position to her children.
At Lowell, Mitchell initiated drug treatment, work release and education programs. She caught the attention of gubernatorial candidate Reuben Askew when Lowell inmates entered a float in the 1970 Ocala Christmas Parade called "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
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Florida Governor Reubin Askew in 1971. (Photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory)
It depicted a Christmas theme with 10 lampposts. At each post, stood an inmate and staff member in their institutional garb with the posts signifying each goal of rehabilitation. The final post depicted an inmate in civilian clothes reunited with family.
The newly-elected Askew personally asked for the float to be part of his first inaugural parade. He then would name Mitchell the warden at Lowell and in 1975 called her back to Tallahassee as the Assistant Secretary of Inmate Treatment. In that position, Mitchell created the first Work Release Center for Women and initiated a series of therapeutic and substance abuse programs.
Askew also asked Mitchell to become the first woman to serve on the Florida Parole Commission. She would be there for 12 years. And became the first woman to serve as commission chair (two terms).
"She was a terrific lady. She took risks with inmates no one had ever done," said Jane Grizzard of Ocala, who worked with Mitchell for 22 years.
Grizzard recalled the education program for inmates that included services for their families and how Mitchell served as a mentor to other females in a male-dominated profession.
"If Anabel Mitchell believed in you then Anabel Mitchell believed in you and would do everything she could to help you succeed," said Grizzard as she drove west on I-10 Friday morning to attend Mitchell's services in Tallahassee.
Grizzard called Mitchell a woman who was ahead of her times, citing programs that allowed inmates in civilian clothing to visit dying relatives and how she worked to have out-of-state inmates released to serve time in their home state.
"She was, what is the word? Progressive," said Grizzard.
Mitchell retired from state government in 1987.
In 2001, she would marry Louie Wainwright and together they launched Wainwright Judicial Services, a world-wide consulting firm that worked with corrections officials in Austria, Poland, Sweden and Ireland.
A Corrections Foundation 2013 dinner and gala honored Mitchell as someone who had the "ability to work with all parties (and) created an atmosphere of change."
Mitchell would tell the foundation that she contributed much of her success to a Department of Corrections environment that lacked "gender or racial bias," and encouraged "women and minorities to think and innovate."
Among the honors bestowed on Mitchell during her more than 40 years of service are national awards such as the Maud Booth Correctional Services Award and the E.R. Cass Award. Mitchell was also listed in the 1972 edition of "Outstanding Personalities in the South."
In 1984, the Dade Correctional Institution in Homestead was formally named the Anabel P. Mitchel Training Center.
Anabel Mitchell was 95 when she passed away. She is survived by five children, nine grandchildren and husband Louie Wainwright.
Writer James Call can be contacted at jcall@tallahassee.com. Follow on Twitter @CallTallahassee
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Family, friends, and a contigent of state officials will gather at 11:00 a.m. Friday at Culley's Meadowood Funeral Home on Riggins Rd, to pay final respects to the remarkable life of Anabel Mitchell who was 95 when she passed.
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Q: Which is better, spectral differentiation or quotient finite differences? If I have a periodic function, as an array of values, and I want to calculate numerically it's derivative I can use 2 methods, the first one is to use discrete fourier transform and perform the multiplication as in https://math.mit.edu/~stevenj/fft-deriv.pdf. The second one is to use an aproximation by finite differences as $f_i'=\frac{f_{i+1}-f{i}}{h}$. I want to know which one would perform better in practice and why, can you suggest me literature where I can find such information?

A: If you have an analytic periodic function, trigonometric interpolation on equidistant nodes converges exponentially with the number of nodes (because a periodic function can be expressed as a fourier series. If the functions is n-times differentiable, you have algebraic convergence with rate n. The FFT is (only) a nice trick to compute this interpolant very fast.
The finite difference approximation instead is only linear in $h$.
Unless your function is nasty, you'll get more accurate results (asymptotically, but essentially also in practice) with the FFT than with the finite difference approximation.
You can read more about trigonometric interpolation here.

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Drinking in the UK: An exploration of trends
Lesley Smith and David Foxcroft
This study is a systematic review of research relevant to trends in alcohol consumption over the last 20 to 30 years in the UK.
A key part of the Government's alcohol harm reduction strategy is to monitor changes in drinking habits over time and to identify what factors are potentially contributing to the rising levels of consumption.
assesses the number, types and quality of existing research studies;
synthesises the findings to evaluate alcohol drinking trends in the UK, highlighting key changes;
discusses possible explanations for the trends observed, assessing what factors may have contributed to changes;
explores implications for policy;
makes recommendations for future research.
Rising alcohol consumption is a cause for concern. This evidence review summarises interesting trends in drinking in the UK and discusses possible causes.
There has been a slight overall decline in weekly drinking by men and women in Great Britain in recent years, especially amongst adults aged 16-24. But there has been a notable increase in weekly drinking in Northern Ireland since 1986.
Average units of alcohol consumed by men and women in Great Britain have increased since 1992. For women over 25 this increase has been marked. However, consumption by men aged 16-24 has fallen since 2000.
Since 1998, there has been a general increase in drinking over recommended weekly limits, especially for women. Among men aged 16-24 drinking over weekly limits has decreased alongside overall consumption since 2000. In Northern Ireland, there has been a clear increase in both genders and especially in adults aged 18-24.
Binge drinking levels (twice the recommended daily limit) have changed little between 1998 and 2006 in Great Britain. However, this masks an increase of 7 per cent in women – especially those over 25 – and a fall amongst men aged 16-24.
There is some evidence that the proportion of drinkers under 16 has fallen slightly since 1988 in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, though this is not consistent across boys and girls of different ages. Amongst those who do drink, average units consumed increased markedly between 1990 and 2006, with a larger increase amongst 11- to 13-year-old boys. This may have recently decreased in England in 2007: future surveys will show if this trend continues.
Continued monitoring of women's and under-16s drinking using consistent consumption measures, and greater recruitment from under-represented groups, such as different ethnic groups, are needed to help interpret future trends.
The UK government's alcohol harm reduction strategy has highlighted the need to promote sensible drinking in the light of rising problems associated with alcohol consumption. Key action points of the strategy are to monitor changes in drinking habits over time and to identify factors influencing drinking behaviour that potentially contribute to rising levels of consumption.
This research gathered evidence to describe alcohol drinking trends in the general population in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales over the last 20 to 30 years, and to describe how they vary according to age, sex, ethnicity, socio-economic status and geographic region. The review assessed research studies and synthesised findings to evaluate trends. The researchers also discuss possible explanations for trends.
The key surveys included are:
For adults, seven primary studies: the Continuous Household Survey (CHS), the General Household Survey (GHS), the Health Education Population Survey (HEPS), the Health Survey for England (HSE), the Health Survey for Wales (HSW), the Omnibus Survey and the Scottish Health Survey (SHS). All were large national cross-sectional surveys repeated on a regular basis, every one, two or three years.
For people under 16, six primary studies: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People in England (SDD), the HSE, the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS), SHS, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey and the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD). Four were large national cross-sectional surveys repeated on a regular basis, every one, two or three years, and two were international studies that are conducted every three years (ESPAD and HBSC). One additional study reported a secondary analysis of data from two other surveys (HBSC and the Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes Survey (YPBAS) in Northern Ireland.
Notable trends
The research highlights five interesting trends:
increase in drinking amongst women;
increase in drinking among middle- and older-age groups;
increase in drinking in Northern Ireland compared with the rest of the UK;
a possible recent decrease in drinking among 16- to 24-year-olds;
increase in alcohol consumption amongst very young adolescents.
Increase in drinking amongst women
In the UK, women are less likely than men to drink and women who do drink consume less than men. However, a robust trend identified across several different surveys and different measures of alcohol consumption (GHS, CHS, Omnibus survey, HSE and SHS) shows a recent narrowing of the gender gap. An examination of trends over the last 15 to 20 years indicates that it is generally the drinking behaviour of women that has increased toward that of men, at least in the UK where the gender gap in drinking at excessive and harmful levels has decreased over recent years.
This might be interpreted as one expression of the historically recent emancipation of women in Western society, the pressure of positive advertising and also the increased financial security and independence of women.
Increase in drinking amongst middle- and older-age groups
Whilst alcohol consumption among middle- and older-age groups is lower than for the younger age groups, in recent years there has been a small but steady increase in the amount of alcohol consumed by these older groups. The trend is consistent across different surveys and different consumption measures (GHS, SHS, CHS and HSE).
Alcohol is 65 per cent more affordable now than in 1980 and accounts for only 5.2 per cent of household spending compared with 7.5 per cent in 1980 (Office for National Statistics, 2007). Older people today are better off financially than they have ever been. For the first time, pensioners are no more likely to be living in poverty than others in the general population, although there are large income inequalities amongst older people: all the people as a group are better off, but some are much better off than others. It is likely to be the wealthier, better-off individuals, who are drinking more.
This apparent trend may also reflect a generation of drinkers with drinking habits established during former years when alcohol generally has been more affordable and acceptable. Today's 50- to 60-year-olds represent the 'baby boom' generation which experienced young adulthood during the 1960s, a time of great social change associated with more liberal and permissive attitudes to many social activities. This generation may be more likely to retain old drinking habits compared with previous generations whose formative drinking years were associated with greater austerity.
Increase in consumption in Northern Ireland
h the proportion of people drinking ('prevalence') and excessive weekly drinking have increased in Northern Ireland compared with Great Britain as a whole since 1986. This is especially the case amongst adults aged 16-24. One possible explanation for this increase is the change in the licensing laws in 1996, and the rapid growth in the leisure industry (number of pubs/bars/clubs) since the peace process began. The peace process has led to increased investment, employment, urbanisation, improved personal financial status and independence amongst the population and amongst young people especially. This social and economic emancipation, when set against a historic low baseline of alcohol use because of religious and cultural norms, may have led to the increase in alcohol drinking over recent years toward the levels in the rest of the UK.
Possible recent decrease amongst 16- to 4-year-olds
This is a rather surprising finding, especially in the face of rising consumption in older age groups and amongst women generally across all age groups over the past 15 to 20 years. At first glance, this apparent recent downward trend may seem counterintuitive: this age group has the highest consumption if one compares prevalence or unit consumption across ages, so the often cited message is that drinking is highest in young adults. That message still holds, but in the past few years this age group may not have been drinking quite as much as in preceding years.
However, variability in consumption between successive survey years is greater in this age group than any other. This means that we should be more cautious about interpreting this as a convincing downward trend. It is, however, consistent across different surveys and different consumption measures (GHS, SHS and HSE).
Even if we lack confidence in the apparent downward trend as too recent to state as a robust, definite downward turn, it is still interesting and perhaps surprising that there is no further increase in drinking behaviour in this age group. This warrants further consideration.
Rising consumption amongst very young adolescents
The Government's alcohol strategy, 'Safe, Sensible, Social' (Department of Health, 2007), states that while the proportion of young people who are drinking has declined in recent years, those who do drink are consuming more alcohol, more often. This study found that whilst there is some evidence that the proportion of drinkers under 16 has fallen slightly since 1988 in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, this is not consistent across boys and girls of different ages. More significantly, young people are drinking twice what they were in 1990 and the amount of alcohol consumed by adolescents aged 11-13 increased substantially between 1992-2006 in England, though may have reached a peak in 2007.
Reasons why consumption amongst 11- to 13-year-olds may show a continuing upward trend include the possibility that younger adolescents have fewer financial pressures than older adolescents and young adults, and may have a higher disposable income, leading to heavier drinking. Alcohol advertising and promotional activities are particularly appealing to young people and can influence the initial development of drinking behaviour. Of note is the fact that alcohol advertising expenditure rose from £150 million to £250 million annually between 1989 and 2000. Over the same period, mean weekly alcohol consumption by young people aged 11 to 15 years also rose in a highly correlated manner.
However, these possibilities would not necessarily lead to different effects on younger versus older teenagers. Therefore, the most compelling consideration when trying to explain the rising trend in consumption amongst 11- to 13-year-olds compared with older teenagers and young adults is the influence of parents, family, friends and the home environment. A 2007 Joseph Rowntree Foundation report indicated that the home is increasingly where young people learn to drink, and as such, young people's drinking habits need to be understood and addressed in relation to parental attitudes to and use of alcohol.
The researchers conducted a systematic review of the literature, searching electronic databases, reference lists and specialist websites. The following study designs were sought: general population surveys reporting on cross-sectional analyses at different time points or reports of epidemiological and alcohol expenditure and sales data analysed from official databases such as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). For the assessment of factors possibly contributing to a selection of interesting trends the authors summarised and offered brief explanatory notes which were then pooled and edited for the discussion section of the final report.
To be included in the evidence review studies had to meet the following criteria:
The population had to be from the UK and of any age or ethnic group. Studies covering a broader population had to present results separately for the UK or its constituent countries.
Studies had to report alcohol consumption for any period of time between the 1970s and 2007, using measures such as quantity and frequency of drinking, drunkenness and binge drinking. Indirect measures of consumption – such as trends in alcohol related morbidity, mortality or crime – were not sought.
Studies had to provide data which could be reliably used for analysing trends, i.e. change over time, such as repeated cross-sectional surveys; panel studies (repeated cross-sectional time-series); and cohort studies (a type of panel study).
Note: New methods for calculating a unit of alcohol have been recently introduced which affect data recorded for Great Britain for 2006, and SDD 2007. The new method effectively doubles the units of alcohol calculated for a glass of wine. The trends summarised in this report take account of this new method.
FindingsDrinking in the UK: an exploration of trends (86.99 KB)
Full ReportDrinking in the UK: an exploration of trends (5.21 MB)
Drinking places: where people drink and why
The links between alcohol and where people drink it in two contrasting communities.