In 1865, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was on the run. He had been accused of masterminding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee had just surrendered to the north.
No Wiener schnitzel was served at the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 10-year anniversary celebration last week, but vegan beef tartare and food-based performance art were on the menu.
The era of crowd-sourcing has given us citizen journalism, Wikipedia and Yelp, and now the Brooklyn Museum is keeping pace by holding a crowd-sourced art competition to be judged by members of the public, “GO: a community-curated open studio project.”
