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Artists and Gallerists Grapple with Ways to Slow Gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick October 24, 2016October 25, 2016

During the panel discussion “Chinatown Is Not For Sale,” members of the Chinatown Art Brigade presented an eight-point pledge of resistance for artists and gallery owners.

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Considering Community as Art Galleries Help Gentrify Harlem

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 14, 2016October 19, 2016

A new wave of art galleries are starting to move up uptown from Chelsea and lower Manhattan, and it is time to ask serious questions about their impact and what we can do to guarantee Harlem survives culturally.

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Gentrification, the Art Gallery Influx, and Other Pressures on Manhattan’s Chinatown

Avatar photo by Betty Yu October 7, 2016March 8, 2023

The Chinatown Art Brigade is fighting against the displacement of local Asian Americans who are being pushed out by gentrification led by luxury condos, art galleries, and other high-end businesses.

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The Alluring Fiction of Los Angeles as a Resurgent Art Center

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 5, 2016October 6, 2016

It had been 10 years since I had lived here and five years since I had last visited, and I was invited back by way of a press tour. The trip reminded me of what I had forgotten.

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As Bushwick Open Studios Shifts Gears, Who Gets Left Behind?

by Robin Grearson October 4, 2016October 7, 2016

Arts in Bushwick kicked off a more studio-centric program last weekend with a 300-artist exhibition and the release of Making History Bushwick, a nearly 500-page book telling the organization’s story and showcasing work by hundreds of local artists.

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Gowanus Artists Are Evicted from Building, and Trash Pickup Suddenly Halts [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 22, 2016September 27, 2016

Garbage has been piling up for weeks in the halls of 112 2nd Avenue.

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Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices

by Matt Stromberg September 22, 2016September 23, 2016

LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.

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Anti-Gentrification Activists Show Concern When Two Art Spaces Open in LA’s Boyle Heights [UPDATED]

by Matt Stromberg September 16, 2016September 16, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The burgeoning gallery district east of the LA River is about to get a bit more crowded.

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In Miami’s Little Haiti, a Muralist Fights Gentrification One Wall at a Time

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz September 7, 2016October 5, 2016

MIAMI — In late May, the City of Miami Commission voted unanimously to designate Little Haiti as “Little Haiti.”

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Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA’s Boyle Heights

by Matt Stromberg July 28, 2016July 29, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.

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Mural in Abandoned Philly Building Becomes Wall Art for Future Condo

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 29, 2016July 1, 2016

Real estate developers whitewashing or tearing down walls covered in graffiti is a familiar narrative, but it appears we may have reached such an advanced stage in the cooptation of street art that those days will soon be at an end.

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A Hellish L Train Commute Inspires a Graphic Novel History of Williamsburg

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne May 24, 2016

Here’s one way to deal with a hellish subway commute: stare at your fellow passengers, draw their portraits, and turn them into characters in a graphic novel.

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