For nearly two decades, the Clemente Center has been divided about control over the building’s 42 subsidized artist studios, four theaters, and two galleries.
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Developer Planning Luxury Towers Atop Senior Housing in Chinatown Halted Again
Developers looking to build their 100-story waterfront skyscraper are up against a grassroots community effort to stop their project that just scored a major win.
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The Tenement Museum Maps a Century of Deadly Diseases and Their Human Stories
In a new tour, the Tenement Museum explores New York’s contagious history, from tuberculosis to the AIDS crisis, through three families.
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Another Wave of Gentrification Hits the Lower East Side
Hundreds of LES residents voiced their opposition to the proposed luxury high-rises in the area mainly populated by low-income people of color.
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9 New Galleries That Opened in New York City in 2017
Don’t focus on the closings. Three cheers for new galleries!
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Photographing the Lower East Side’s Fading Jewish Culture
For Remnants, Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum photographed the synagogues, knisheries, delicatessens, and other survivors of Jewish heritage on New York’s Lower East Side.
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Artists Fill a Lower East Side Building with Murals Before It’s Demolished
Before it’s razed, 140 Essex Street is hosting a one-weekend exhibition featuring 10 murals by 10 artists.
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Looking and Being Looked At in the New International Center of Photography
I expected to stare at many things at the International Center of Photography’s new 250 Bowery location, but my own image was not one of them.
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Grafting Puerto Rican Architecture onto the Lower East Side
Edra Soto attempts architectural transplants the way a doctor might replace skin, seeing if an unfamiliar addition will take.
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The Koch Brothers Loom Large in Lower East Side Mural
If you’re strolling through the Lower East Side, you may just run into the Koch Brothers — or specifically, a new mural that plasters their mugs on a wall on the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets.
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An Artist Serves Up Decadent Feasts for Wild Animals
Over the past few years, New York-based artist Dana Sherwood has organized a picnic for wild baboons on the South African coast, left banquets for raccoons in the suburbs of South Florida, and concocted a molded terrine of jellied spam, beef, hot dogs, and marrow bones for coyotes.
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Highlighting the Invisible Labor of Art Objects
The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter.