Art, Activism, and Gingerbread

A city stroll east across north end of Central Park and the Harlem Meer in brisk and windy November weather. Still lots of color in New York City parks. 

Destination: The Museum of the City of New York on 5th Avenue and specifically the Richard Rauschenberg exhibit.

Looking south across Harlem Meer

Looking west across Harlem Meer

After the Rauschenberg there was time for a couple more exhibits.

The first was Activist New York – marking the city’s long history of social and political struggles from the early abolitionists through the Garment Workers of the early C20th and on to more recent movements.

Each has a multi-media display. Here’s the one for Women’s Liberation:

The Struggle Continues

I wondered when and if there would ever be an exhibit to mark the struggle to preserve women’s hard-won sex-based rights and protect them against males who self-identify as women. 

Perhaps not enough people are aware that Title IX protections for female sports are being eroded and that men are being housed in women’s prisons. 

Here’s an activist photo from ROAR Women NYC of a protest at Riker’s Island. This link provides a useful fact sheet background to why the protest matters. Myth v.Fact: Men in Women’s prisons.

And so to the last exhibit for this visit:

The NYC Annual Gingerbread Bake-Off

So many great examples of creativity from bakeries across the city and the whole room was perfumed with the tantalizing smell of baking gingerbread.
You can vote for your favorite. I didn’t vote because I found them all wonderful.

Some were easier to photograph:

And then back to Central Park and the Conservatory Garden where the waterlily pond was being drained for the winter.

The North Garden offers spectacular seasonal displays of tulips each spring and Korean chrysanthemums in autumn. It still had plenty of color this mid November.