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Life and Music in the Age of George Frederick Bristow (2026) is a documentary exploring 19th-century American music and New York’s search for cultural identity. Through the life of composer George Frederick Bristow, the film examines opera, symphonic ambition, immigration, and canon formation, situating New York within a broader dialogue across the Americas. Available in feature and classroom editions.

And then, in William Hill’s New York there are the specifics. My favorite: the Daguerreian Gallery of Illustrious Americans, located at 205 Broadway, already present in the city by the mid-1840s. Its inclusion is not incidental. It places this image at the threshold between older forms of representation and the emerging modern world of mechanical reproduction.

On a February evening in 1913, New York’s bohemian elite gathered at Tiffany Studios for one of the most dazzling spectacles the city had ever seen. The New York Times reported breathlessly on the event, describing it as an “Egyptian fête” held in a “riot of color.”

When the Bristows came to Brooklyn, not in pursuit of riches but perhaps something far more elusive: opportunity.

During last week's short visit to the MET I had the opportunity to recapture Fragilina, one of several idealized female nudes by Piccirilli.

Tornano alla ribalta i fratelli scultori massesi che emigrarono negli States. Il regista Montes Bradley è al lavoro e sarà in città per...

John Freeman Gill's recent New York Times article, "How Six Italian Brothers Shaped the Story of New York,” ...

My quest for the documentary is driven by the need to find tangible traces of the Piccirilli family of sculptors, who migrated from...

By the time The Minutemen was ready to be unveiled in the presence of Emerson and Ulysses Grant, then sitting president of the United...

If you ever walked down Park Avenue, north of Grand Central Station, in the early hours of the afternoon, you probably saw the reflection...

This documentary, part of MoMA's extraordinary collection, was made by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern as part of a series...