August 2010
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Anonymous asked: I just wanted to know if there was any limit to the number of people who want to play as a group? i personally would like to invite 6 or 7 people to come and play mini golf. would we have to be split up in any way or can we all play as a group?
July 2010
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More press
Everybody loves to write about a worthy cause. The Golden Door has been on the lips of a lot of reporters and bloggers recently. The exhibition was mentioned in the Metro section of The New York Times a couple of weeks ago, as well as The Star Ledger and on NJN News. Brooklyn-based art blog Hyperallergic posted an in-depth article and is even organizing a field trip to the exhibition on July 22.
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June 2010
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Party on!
We had a fantastic grand opening on Wednesday June 23, and Irene Borngraeber from The Jersey City Independent was there to photograph the festivities. She did a fantastic job of capturing the excitement.
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Press
There’s nothing like a worthy cause and a unique project to get people talking and writing. Here is a fantastic article about The Golden Door in The Jersey City Independent. The exhibition was also mentioned in The Wall Street Journal and The Jersey Journal. The Wall Street Journal also covered the fund raising goals of the exhibition in this article.
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"MY FIRST TIME"
Mark Rodrick: I remember vividly the last hole when a clown swallows your golf ball, and being so disappointed that I could not retrieve it. As children we always wanted to continue playing, after walking along the Point Pleasant boardwalk, climbing up the staircase above the arcade and waiting on line to play miniature golf, the round always ended too quickly. I’m sure “The...
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A Puttable Art Experience
Art + miniature golf = awesome.
Artists can add something special to miniature golf. They bring an insight and sensitivity that you don’t find in most commercial courses. During the design phase of “The Golden Door” mini golf exhibition, the participating artists were asked to consider how their golf holes translate as visual objects, relate to an exhibition theme, and behave as part of a leisure...
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“The mind messes up more shots than the body.”
– Tommy Bolt
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“Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.”
– Jack Nicklaus
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WatchHiroshi Kumagai talks about how working with sculpture for The Golden Door mini golf exhibition is providing a new direction for his art. He also discusses how the concept of his golf hole, “The Long Narrow Way to Heaven” relates to his own immigration experience.
May 2010
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"MY FIRST TIME"
Laura Napier: Mini golf in southern California is open 365 days a year and consists of a collection of sunfaded greens set beside a roaring freeway. Probably we had just been on a prolonged trip to the dentist and this was welcome distraction. I remember unwieldy putters and being unable to keep the ball off the sides of the course, the ball disappearing into holes and emerging in unexpected...
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The Golden Door on Jersey City Museum website →
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“I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I...”
– Ben Hogan
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Green Profile: Stairs of Separation
Immigrants who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island were required to gather in the Great Hall to participate in hasty medical and legal exams. After this registration process, immigrants descended the “Stairs of Separation,” where they were directed either to a railroad ticket office, the Ellis Island hospital, or detention centers, depending on their exam results. Whether they were...
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Green Profile: Royal and Ancient
For The Golden Door exhibition, Darren Jones & Ryan Roa are working on a golf green titled “Royal and Ancient,” which references both the history of golf and Scottish immigration to the United States. Click here for more about where the title “Royal and Ancient” came from.
“Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it’s unfair. It’s a...”
– Jim Murray, sportswriter
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"MY FIRST TIME"
Christina Vassallo: The summer before sophomore year of high school, I stayed in Wildwood with a friend & her family for a week. We played mini golf on a weather beaten course. I don’t remember who won, but I do remember an abundance of creepy fiberglass sculptures that were more distracting than entertaining. This experience marked the beginning of my obsession with weird fiberglass...
“Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience...”
– Bruce Crampton
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Through the Golden Door
Immigration to the United States
by David Bustamante, Consul for Public Affairs, United States Consulate General in Milan
And while some historians and sociologists have claimed that “The American Dream” never existed, it continues to be a major factor in immigration to the United States today. People in search of opportunity still line up to get through the “Golden Door” and into the United...
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"MY FIRST TIME"
Darren Jones: My first time was at the age of 10 in St Andrews, Scotland near the Royal and Ancient Golf Course. The groundsman told me that if I didn’t hit a hole in one, I would be kept prisoner in the bottle dungeon of St Andrews Castle which stood nearby—a foreboding and sinister sight on the edge of the sea cliffs. The dungeon to this day is inescapable and many historical figures...
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The sweetest sound in the whole wide world…
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April 2010
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“If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.”
– Lou Graham
March 2010
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“In this case, golf is a means to an end. We can’t change the course that...”
– Hale Irwin
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"My first time"
Asha Ganpat: Beginning July 1985. Every year we spent our summers in Long Beach Island. There was a lot of mini-golf after dinners, before going to the arcade. I would always hit the ball too hard and have to chase after it. So often I would have to ask for a new one.
“When it’s breezy, hit it easy.”
– Davis Love Jr.
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“Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with...”
– Woodrow Wilson
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"My first time"
Brendan Carroll: July 1979. Family vacation. Pine Grove Dude Ranch. Catskills, New York. Threw up, shot a hole-in-one, threw up again, and left.
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“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a...”
– Tiger Woods
Guarding the Golden Door
American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
by Roger Daniels
In the beginning Congress created the Chinese Exclusion Act. Like much of what Congress has done about immigration since then, it was conceived in ignorance, was falsely presented to the public, and has consequences undreamt by its creators…. It marked the moment the golden doorway of admission to the United States...