The Queens museum show expands on this, with specially commissioned works from Duke Riley, a local artist fascinated with all things aquatic, whose mural, That's What She Said, looks at the sources of New York's drinking water; and Mariam Ghani, a New York artist of Afghani and Lebanese heritage, whose wall piece, The Garden of Forked Tongues, riffs on the Queens language map.
Plus, Eli's still celebrates its blues and R&B heritage: The walls are plastered with classic concert posters and ephemera, and if you ask nicely, somebody might even show you the toilet James Brown puked in.
A Unesco world heritage site, the wall is a Roman epic, a work of civil engineering on an imperial scale.
As the nearest of the beacons – which were spaced 250 metres apart – flared into life, Linda Tuttiett, chief executive of Hadrian's Wall Heritage, said: "This is our wall.
The beacon duly erupted on time, as Linda Tuttiett, chief executive of Hadrian's Wall Heritage, linked Roman times with the 21st-century UK.
"This is a sad day when officials of the state come in the dead of night and rip our heritage off the walls of a public building," said Kirk Lyons, director of the North Carolina-based SoutherNorth Carolina-basedter.
This epic exhibition stretches 150 miles along the Hadrian's Wall world heritage site, across 10 museums and venues.
From the Berkshires to the Willamette Valley, small farmers are growing, scything and milling heritage wheat … The Wall Street Journal: … And for home brewers, what could embody more heritage than our foaming — er, founding — father, George Washington?
Further nods to Kyoto's heritage hang on the wall: a serene trio of pink-and-gold painted panels depicting sakura cherry blossoms, which are now just coming into bloom in the city.
It will join other unique Roman cavalry objects from museums across Europe in a series of exhibitions and events along the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site area - from Maryport in the west to South Shields in the east.
