Category: news
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Conversation Series Launches in Mott Haven
A local artist has developed a new way for people all over the country to stay on top of what’s happening in the Bronx. From artist Blanka Amezkua’s former Bronx…
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A Tightly Knit and Diverse Arts Scene Grows in the Bronx
Artist and educator Hatuey Ramos Fermin moved to the Bronx in 2007 to jump-start his career in New York after completing his studies in the Netherlands. An enticing mix of…
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Investigating the City through Artistic Practice
Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, multimedia artist Thursday, April 14, 2:00pm, Carman B34 Multimedia artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermín will discuss his use of photography, video, installation, graphics, performance, and text to investigate issues related…
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2010-11 BCA/DCA ARTS FUND GRANTEES
The Bronx Council on the Arts proudly announces the recipients of this year’s BCA/DCA Arts Fund Grant.
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Drawings by Mexican Artist, Aurelio Del Muro On Display
Coqui Mexicano, who is not just a restaurant in Melrose but a local cultural institution, will be hosting, “Drawings From the Story, “¿Un Anhelo?” – Aurelio Del Muro.” The exhibit…
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Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Battle Draws Fresh Voices
Last week, fifteen Bronx high school students added their voices to the volatile mix of dialogue over the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory, a former National Guard ammunitions warehouse in…
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Dispatching Art In Real Time
On speaking with Fermín, he explained to me his early encounters of using cab services when he arrived in the Bronx. These encounters initiated his idea for Transmit-Transit.
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A Playful Take on Serious Matters: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
By Rebecka Gordan for [ polis ] blog: Collecting my thoughts after six months as an architectural reporter in New York City, one of my most memorable encounters was undoubtedly with the Center…
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Los taxis de NY que no son amarillos en Diálogo Digital
La vida de un taxista. Cuántas veces alguien se detiene a pensar en la cotidianidad de ese conductor (o conductora) que lo lleva de un sitio a otro. Cómo es…
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Review and Interview with Hatuey Ramos Fermin
BY Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga for his blog Puerto Rican publication, Dialogo Digital ran a review and interview of “Transmit-Transit” Hatuey Ramos Fermin’s first solo show in NYC that I curated.…
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I Heart East New York on East Village Radio
Tune into eastvillageradio.com this Saturday November 7, 2009 at 1 pm (EST) to hear a live broadcast featuring songs from Center for Urban Pedagogy’s recent Urban Investigation, I Heart East…
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Avant Guide to NYC: Discovering Absence
This exhibition is a viewfinder trained onto the specific sites of the cultural fabric of New York City. The past, represented by the memory imprint of an artistic activity that…
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Blast from Mott Haven’s past recalls an artistic keystone
Hundreds of people pass by Third Avenue and 147th Street each day without a second glance at the storefronts that house a nail salon, a hair braiding salon and, hidden…
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A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale
A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale By David Gonzalez New York Times City Room Blog The notion of popular art must have seemed like a really hard sell in…
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Students Investigate Local Issues Through Service Learning
The final bell rings at the George Wingate Educational Campus, home to four Brooklyn public schools, and a handful of ninth-grade students trickle into a classroom for their after-school service-learning…
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I Have a Basement Apartment. Now What?
A group of students from Hostos Community College’s Now Program also set out on a project that focused on some illegal housing, the result of their work I HAVE A…
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Class Consciousness
Taraneh Fazeli on Night School for Artforum AN ANECDOTE FROM THE ART WORLD, though it could as easily have been a hostage scene from the sausage factory in Tout va bien, left…
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Looking 21 Years Ahead
Text and photos by Charles Rogers for the Canarsie Courier What will life in East New York be like in the year 2030? Students from a class being offered by…
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Making it in New York Immigrant Artists at the 60 Wall Street Gallery
Twenty artists from eleven nations. “Making It,” the current exhibition at Deutsche Bank’s 60 Wall Street Gallery, features works by participants in the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists,…
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Immigrants Make Strides in NY Art World
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, a Puerto-Rican conceptual artist, does not sell his work by the Metropolitan. Rather, he came to New York City because of a six-month mentoring program sponsored by the…
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Pedestrian
Art in Odd Places is taking over 14th Street: That means gold trash, mutilated stuffed animals and weirdo performance artists everywhere. We asked nine of them to explain their WTF…
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Art as Resistance
By: Marie-Theresa Hernández, PhD for DREAM ACT – TEXAS “A banana from my country can travel easier than me” says Benito Banana (alias Hatuey Ramos-Fermin) . Conceptual artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermin puts on a banana suit…
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Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artist Connect
Something about the man in the banana costume appealed to Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga. Maybe it was the sign he wore that read, “A banana from my country can travel easier…
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Nuevas voces en la fotografía
En el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico estará desde el 9 de julio al 13 de agosto de 2006, la muestra: ‘Nuevas Voces en la Fotografía’. En la…
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