Good morning. Today is Monday. We’ll examine the sense of urgency that the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling has added to the annual gay pride parade. We will also see a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet that has been forgotten for decades.
The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling and the threat to same-sex consensual relationships and same-sex marriage that Justice Clarence Thomas raises in her consensual opinion shading on the New York City Pride March on Sunday.
The annual event is usually an unabashed celebration. This time, Planned Parenthood led the march at the invitation of Heritage of Pride, the group that organized the march along Fifth Avenue. Heritage of Pride said the court’s decision sets “a disturbing precedent.” put many other constitutional rights and freedoms in jeopardy.”
So while there are the usual rainbow balloons floating in the early summer breeze and revelers often tossing confetti, there’s also a newfound urgency amid chants of “increasing abortion rights”. Marchers and those on the sidelines said the time has called for activities to maintain and expand civil rights for women as well as for those who identify as lesbians and gays, but gender and transgender.
Cynthia Nixon, the actress and former candidate for governor, marched behind the group Planned Parenthood, saying the parade was a celebration in recent years. But this time, she said, “it’s a protest.”
That idea was echoed by many along the parade route, including Rick Landman, who said he walked during the first Pride march in 1970. “For me, this was the continuation of the civil rights struggle,” he said, in chants of “my body, my choice” from women marching on behalf of the New York City Department of Education. “I fought for women’s rights. The next generation must fight to keep them.”
The parade is the first Live Pride parade since 2019 because of the pandemic. It’s the largest of its kind on a weekend in Manhattan, but revelers have celebrated the end of Pride Month at other events across the city, including Queer Emancipation March, which begins in Foley Square center. There, people also expressed concern about the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“What will be next? Same-sex marriage? Transfer rights? ” asked Charlotte Dragga, a transgender woman from Durham, NC: “Things are going to get worse. It will have effects beyond just abortion. “
Kymme Napoli of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a hospital consultant who often helps people who are having trouble deciding whether to have an abortion, said the court’s decision “makes people want to go out more, maybe show more mutual support”.
Crying as she spoke, she said, “I’m afraid of people who aren’t in states like New York.” Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, became New York’s first female governor, announced an advertising campaign to tell women across the country that abortion still exists in New York, which legalized abortion in 1970, three years before Roe sued Wade was decided. In addition, the State Legislature also passed bills to protect health care providers from facing charges of providing abortion services in other states.
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Former Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his brothers have amassed so many sculptures – they’re Rockefellers after all – that their staff can deposit a statue in storage and all but forget about it. it goes.
Even one is 11 feet tall, weighs 7 and a half tons and has the unmistakable brazen look of the French artist. Jean Dubuffetwho created it in the 1960s and sold it to Rockefeller in the 1970s.
It languished, tucked away in a building with the ground on the Rockefellers estate in Tarrytown, NY, through the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010.
That building, which was originally supposed to be a cold storage for the orange trees on the campus, had to be moved out for renovations as David Rockefeller Center for the Arts (slated to premiere in October).
Sitting in a corner, covered by a cover, is Dubuffet.
The curators weren’t sure what they would think when the cover opened. It’s Generation: All of the current curators on staff were hired after Nelson Rockefeller died in 1978 and the sculpture was stashed. “We knew it was there,” said Katrina Londoncurator of collections and curatorial projects at the old estate, now known as Center Pocantico“But I don’t know how dramatic and interesting it is.”
Dubuffet did not intend it to end with the Rockefellers estate. Judy Clark, executive director of the Pocantico Center, said it had been considered an “experimental work” and had installed it in his garden in France. Nelson Rockefeller saw a photo of it a few years later and arranged to buy it, London said.
After living on the property for a few years, she said, Dubuffet needed a remodel and was moved to the Orangerie. “They will put it there and decide what to do with it,” she said. But with Rockefeller’s death, “It just stayed there.”
Tests in 2019 showed it to be structurally stable, meaning it could be moved and it – to a warehouse, so the Orangerie renovation could begin.
Immediately after, the people in charge searched for possible locations on the land. They printed full-size images of the sculpture on vinyl that they carried from place to place.
They decided to go up a hill near the main gate, where it is currently under a scaffold and conservationists are examining it. “We liked the place because it was high enough that you could see it from different directions,” London said. “It seems appropriate as a welcoming beacon, and to signify that there is also an outdoor sculpture collection – a very large one. Ninety-four outdoor sculptures. “
METROPOLITAN . Diary
3 things
Dear Diary:
I was on the subway on a Saturday midsummer change of service. A special committee has been formed on the vehicle that I am traveling in. We were debating where the woman sitting next to me should move to the Brooklyn Museum.
After deciding which stop made the most sense, she and I talked about our lives when we got there. She has lived in New York for more than 50 years. I just moved in after a year away. She used to work IT for a company based in Germany, and I also work in technology.
When we got to where she was going, I got off the bus with her and together we waited for the next train. I wonder if anyone thinks we’re grandma and grandchild, not strangers who met just 20 minutes ago on the rerouted D street.
When I mentioned I had just been through a breakup, she told me that in bad moments, I need to say three things to myself: “I love you. I will take care of you. I will never leave you.”
She insisted I memorize the phrases, and I mumbled them over and over in the sticky subway car.
As we got off the train, I started asking her name. Instead of telling me, she made me repeat what she taught me.
“I love you,” I said. “I will take care of you. I will never leave you.”
She sped toward the museum, and I headed back down East Parkway to go home. I said these words again, this time only to myself. They barely hear the noise of the traffic.
– Ethan Peterson-New
