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Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood

Avatar photo by Todd Fine July 13, 2021July 13, 2021

Will New York wake up one day and discover that speculation has cannibalized its creative industries, which underpinned the desirability of the real estate itself?

Posted inArt

The Art World We Have Lost

by David Carrier August 1, 2020November 5, 2020

Loren Munk’s “SOHO Map” offers a visual record of a densely peopled art world.

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In SoHo, Artists Turn Boarded-up Storefronts Into Canvases

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick July 2, 2020January 19, 2021

As stores begin to reopen, the future of these artworks remains in limbo but one thing is certain: for the first time in decades, the Manhattan neighborhood is teeming with art again.

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A More Inclusive Future for Digital Art (With GIFs, Too)

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas June 12, 2019June 12, 2019

Molly Soda, Claudia Hart, and Faith Holland will discuss their work at a panel this week, The Artist Isn’t (Physically) Present: Women in Digital Art.

Posted inArt

The Heroes and Villains of New York’s Changing Cityscape

Avatar photo by Tim Keane June 10, 2017June 12, 2017

There once was a time when the resistance movements of New York pushed back against the regimenting, state-sponsored programs known as “urban renewal.”

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From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube

by Jeremy Polacek May 13, 2016

That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.

Posted inArt

The Honeybee as Artistic Messenger

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 19, 2015

In 2013, artist Kelly Heaton had a vision of a magnificent bee appearing in the darkness, illuminated by an iridescent aura.

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Gaily Forward! The US’s Only Museum of LGBTQ Art Is Doubling in Size

by Claire Voon September 17, 2015September 20, 2015

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art announced yesterday a major expansion of its current Soho space that will result in the near doubling of the young institution’s footprint.

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Brothels, Artists, and Exorbitant Real Estate on One NYC Block

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 14, 2015August 18, 2015

One block of New York City’s Soho has had numerous identities over the past four centuries.

Detail of Dora Budor, "Our Children Will Have Yellow Eyes" (2015), screen-used miniature rooftop from 'Johnny Mnemonic' (1995), steel armature, epoxy clay, infected silicone prosthetics, acrylic polymer with pigment suspension, sfx and weathering paint, and assorted metal hardware
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A Sculptural Sequel for Blockbuster Movie Miniatures

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 6, 2015

The Swiss Institute’s basement gallery space looks like the set for an avant-garde science fiction movie right now.

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Relics of a Future Environmental Collapse

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 1, 2015

Lina Puerta makes ruin porn on an unusually intimate scale.

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All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin

by Richard Kostelanetz April 24, 2014April 28, 2014

In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.

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