Tag Coney Island

March 4, 2016
in Art & Architecture

At Home in Coney Island: Spike Lee’s He Got Game (1998)

March 4, 2016
in Art & Architecture

Read J. Hoberman’s NYRB review of the exhibition and the “excellent, richly illustrated catalogue.” Joshua Glick– One of the major aims of the recent traveling museum exhibition and accompanying book catalog, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008, is to explore filmmakers’ long-lasting fascination with Coney Island. Since the emergence

March 5, 2015
in Art & Architecture

Win a Copy of Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland!

March 5, 2015
in Art & Architecture

Coney Island, the New York neighborhood famous for its beaches, boardwalks, resorts, and amusement parks, has been a fixture of our national cultural imagination for a century. Once known as “America’s Playground,” Coney Island has hosted, during its long history, world-famous circus performers, magicians, and sideshow freaks, among so many other