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A Newsletter with a New Focus
2 FebHey Everyone!
I haven’t posted on Bronx Matters for more than a year. In large part, the reason for that is that I now publish a weekly newsletter via Substack called Art All Around Us, which is a focus on cool, creative things that are happening here in the Bronx and beyond, including lower Westchester. I also include some updates about my own photography and abstract art. My most recent newsletter is here. All of the newsletters I’ve posted are here. In January 2024, I began posting a new one every week. You can subscribe via subscription button in all of my newsletters. if you find it useful, please share with your family and friends.
Thanks!
-Jordan
Bronx Children’s Museum Opens Tues., Dec. 3! Free Tix for a Bit.
1 DecThis coming Tuesday, the long awaited Bronx Children’s Museum will finally be open! Check out their ticket reservation page for reserving free tix for a limited time. The museum is at 725 Exterior Street.
Art Fair at Amalgamated Houses/Vladeck Hall Tomorrow! (Sun. 11/20, 1 to 5 P.M. )
19 NovHey Everyone! Tomorrow (Sunday), from 1 to 5 p.m., I’ll be part of an art fair, along with 17 wonderful artists at Amalgamated House’s Vladeck Hall in Van Cortlandt Village/Bronx (74 Van Cortlandt Park South). KRVC is organizing the event and providing a shuttle bus from their office at 505 W. 236th St. (around corner of Riverdale Ave next to bagel joint), every half hour between 1:30 and 4:30 . This is gonna be a phenomenal resource for creative, AFFORDABLE holiday gifts by local artists, including jewelry, paintings, photography, drawings, and greeting cards. And live jazz too! If you have time tomorrow, please come check it out!
Thanks!
Jordan
P.S. Here are pix of some of the artist’s taking part! And feel free to email me at jordanmossbx@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Daniel Hauben
Jordan Moss
Liz Guarracino
Annette Black
Alex Fernandez
My Opinion Piece in City Limits: Kingsbridge Armory Ice-Rink Plan Ditched After a Decade of Inaction
3 Mar3.3.22 — Almost 30 years after first writing about the Kingsbridge Armory’s potential redevelopment, I went at it again thanks to failure of the crew that got city approval to build nine ice-hockey rinks there. That was in 2012. Zilch has happened since. Read more in my City Limits piece below.
See This Bronx Museum Exhibit Before It Closes!
1 MarHave you ever been to the Bronx Museum of the Arts? I’m asking because I’ve asked many people — especially artists — that same question over the years and I’m surprised by how many Bronxites and others who love art, have never been there. Well, now is the time. “Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial” (the result of a fellowship program) is still on exhibit, but only until March 20. The museum is FREE, on the Grand Concourse and close to D- and 4-trains. Here are just a couple of photos of a few dozen excellent pieces in the show. (Here’s a great review of it in Hyperallergic). And keep checking out the Bronx Museum.
Riverdale Artist’s Online Opening Tomorrow (Sun., 1/23)
22 JanGallery 505, a Bronx art gallery in Riverdale, hosts an online exhibit opening tomorrow, June 23, for the local artist Doris Cordero. It’s from 4 to 5 p.m.
The Gallery, led by Kingsbridge Riverdale Van Cortlandt Development Corp., will also be open for in-person visits on Mondays from 2-5 p.m. by appointment. To get the link for tomorrow’s opening or future in-person visit, just email lindaKRVC@gmail.com. And here’s the link to learn more about Cordero and her work.
Bronxite Colleen Kelly, Who’s Brother Was Killed on 9/11, Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee
6 JanJan. 6, 2022 — Colleen Kelly is a long-time Bronx resident and nurse practitioner. A sister of Bill Kelly, Jr., who was killed while visiting the World Trade Center for a meeting on Sept. 11, Kelly testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last month demanding the resolution and completion of what’s been going on — actually what has not gone on — at Guantanamo for two decades. “One judge after another has been replaced,” as have many attorneys and other staff, Kelly said. A co-founder of Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (I wrote about Peaceful Tomorrows’ launch near the U.N. in early 2002 for The Nation), Kelly has been to Guantanamo several times witnessing its unjust and blatant bureaucracy. With 2,977 people killed, there is still “no justice, no accountability,” regarding “the information we’ve been denied for two decades,” she said. Following are links for Kelly testifying (text is here) and then answering the questions of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Democrat-CT):
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4990100/user-clip-col-testimony-guant-hearing
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4990104/user-clip-colleen-kelly-blumenthal
—Jordan Moss
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