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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 8: Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, and Robert Rauschenberg

In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and soundscape recordings to celebrate and honor the artistic, social, political, and cultural movements that have grown in our neighborhoods, and the people who gave them voice.  We have now […]

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    Leontyne Price Shatters Racial Barriers in Met Opera Debut

    Leontyn Price, the groundbreaking, world-renowned soprano and longtime Greenwich Village resident, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on January 27, 1961.  Ms. Price was one of the first internationally recognized African-American opera stars.  Her career broke through racial barriers at another time in our history when the United States was experiencing intense racial strife […]

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