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.
Gentrification
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A Public Art Project Invites Gentrifiers to Confess Their Sins
On a Saturday evening a few weekends ago, several artists, performers, activists, and writers gathered at an apartment in Chelsea to discuss their relationship to the city-wide process of gentrification.
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Sand Sculptor Transforms Construction Site into Anti-Gentrification Cat Art
On Saturday afternoon, sand sculptor Zara Gaze came upon a pile of sand at a construction site in her rapidly gentrifying south London neighborhood of Brockley.
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Gallerist Proposes List of Most Influential People in Bushwick, Sparking Neighborhood Outrage
On January 1, Bushwick gallery Fuchs Projects announced its plans to share a list of the “200 most influential people in Bushwick in 2016” — news met with fierce outcry from members of the community troubled by what many regarded as an exclusive project ignorant of the effects of gentrification.
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Galapagos Art Space Founder Attempts to Flip Detroit Building for $6.25 Million
Just over a year ago, Robert Elmes made waves when he announced that the beloved Brooklyn art institution he’d founded 20 years prior, Galapagos Art Space, would be closing up shop in New York and moving to Detroit.
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season.
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A Complex Portrait of Gentrification in New Yorkers’ Own Words
Last month the Brooklyn Public Library bestowed its inaugural Brooklyn Eagle Literary Prize for a work of non-fiction on DW Gibson for The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification.
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Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Real Estate Summit at Brooklyn Museum
More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate Summit.
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Artists Denounce Brooklyn Museum for Hosting Real Estate Summit
On November 17, the Brooklyn Museum will host the sixth annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, a gathering of more than 600 of the biggest players in Brooklyn’s real estate market.
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“We Are Experiencing Hyper-Gentrification”: Gowanus Art Community Sizes Up Its Future
As Arts Gowanus organized a rally for artists displaced from 94 9th Street and adjacent, connected buildings earlier this month, some 350 artists and local businesses were preparing for Gowanus Open Studios (GOS)
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In the Bronx, a Photo League Captures the People and Places Threatened by Rezoning
Jerome Avenue Workers Project, an exhibition featuring work by photographers from the Bronx Photo League (a project of the Bronx Documentary Center), sees gentrification through a personal lens.
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New Gowanus Landlord Kicks Dozens of Artists Out of Their Studios
It’s two weeks before Gowanus Open Studios, an annual celebration of the artistic community in one of Brooklyn’s foremost industrial neighborhoods. But instead of putting the finishing touches on paintings, many artists with Gowanus studios are busy scouring real estate listings.
