You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I must confess. Until I read The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra’s Needle, ...

The obelisk in Central Park, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, was formally dedicated on February 22nd, 1881 after a long trip involving ships, cannonballs, and the sharp corners put in place by the ...

After hearing about the recent installation of a temporary field hospital [tent] facility in Central Park, New York, due to the coronavirus pandemic, I could not help but think about the many New ...

Cleopatra’s Needle being transported from the Hudson in 1880 (all photographs of the exhibition by the author for Hyperallergic) When Cleopatra’s Needle was commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III around ...

Apparently Egypt is starting to get jealous of Greece and wants to repatriate Cleopatra’s Needle, the trophy of cultural dominance granite stele that’s been festooning Central Park since 1881. Too bad ...

For further information: Marian Kurz 847-491-1938 [email protected] electronic photo available HERBERT PLAYS JAZZ AT CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE, MARIE’S Jazz tenor sax man Todd Herbert is marking his seventh ...

In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586--one of the great ...

Employing even keeled pacing and distinctively rendered characters, Gutman (the My Weird School series) chronicles how Cleopatra’s Needle became a New York City landmark in this delightfully ...