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The Surplus Student
As any student who has worked at The New School can tell you, the compensation for our work here leaves a lot to be…
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What the Library Taught Me
I’ve had a library card since the age of five. I used it so often that I memorized the barcode number, and when I…
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Singing a Sad Song : The Economics of Opera
On Tuesday October 1, the New York City Opera announced that it would be closing its doors to the public after the company failed…
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The Lost Lofts
With Rising Rents, Where Will Artists End Up? For hundreds of years, New York City has served as a home and as inspiration for…
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Where Fashion Meets Politics
Everything in society is designed — mythologies, identities, histories, realities. The role of the artist is to critique the world by making, and in…
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The Bookstore Battle
How Independent Bookstores Manage to Survive In the 1950s, dozens of small, independently operated used bookstores lined Fourth Avenue between Union Square and Astor…
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