NYCHA has undertaken a comprehensive effort to inventory the art it owns with the aim of making it more visible to residents and the city at large. The hope is…
‘People tend to have a stereotyped notion of who’s incarcerated and I think when they see people presenting their lives or being creative, they have to reconsider.’
The walls of city buildings often become memorials to children claimed by disease, to adults taken by violence or to the victims of war or terrorist attacks. It’s a way…
As developers target buildings and neighborhoods that used to offer affordable studio space to artists, more and more practitioners are finding it difficult simply to find a way to do…
The street-art movement was never dependent on one space, and since 5 Pointz’s demise, new work has shifted to new spots or to ones that were already operating. The long-running…
East New York has long faced problems like poverty, disinvestment and crime. Now its worries concern gentrification and displacement. In a neighborhood confronting so many different risks, what role can…
In a city that is only one-third non-Hispanic white, only a third of the creative workforce is made up with blacks, Latinos and Asians. What’s keeping the art scene from…
