Field Day Festival: Harlem, 2015. The Laundry Room (116th St. & Lenox Avenue). (Photo by Ray Llanos, courtesy of The Laundromat Project) Originally posted at Next City, written by Emily Nonko Risë Wilson developed the concept behind The Laundromat Project in the late 1990s while attending graduate school at New York University and living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Her…… Continue reading The Nonprofit That Puts Art Inside Laundromats (And Wherever Else People Are)
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Saying Goodbye to Essex Street Market with Art
The end is nigh. With no Hercules in sight, the multi-headed Hydra better known as Essex Crossing is erasing memories all over the place. In an effort to assuage the inevitable, a final string of art exhibits is about to commence in the soon-to-be-former Essex Market space before it’s demolished.
Parade of Perseverance
El Museo prepares for 41st Annual Three Kings Day Parade Story by Gregg McQueen http://www.manhattantimesnews.com/parade-of-perseverancedesfile-de-la-perseverancia/ Four decades later, the three kings (and queens) still reign. The East Harlem streets will once again be taken over by real camels, giant hand-made puppets and live music, when El Museo del Barrio celebrates its annual Three Kings Day Parade on Fri., Jan. 5…… Continue reading Parade of Perseverance
Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
By Eddie Small For DNAInfo CONCOURSE — A Bronx artist wants to hear about your struggles. Artist Hatuey Ramos Fermín has set up an interactive map of the city as part of the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ exhibit on the Young Lords Organization that asks visitors to write down something they are struggling with on…… Continue reading Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
http://youtu.be/sL87bSRKRWE BY MOSTAFA HEDDAYA for Blouin Artinfo The Bronx Museum of the Arts has long distinguished itself by its commitment to the communities that surround it, with its three-and-a-half decade Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program a leading example of this dedication. The program assists emerging artists of varying degrees of seniority and experience…… Continue reading Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
by Vic Vaiana for Hyperallergic The Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and Loisaida Inc. are exhibiting the work of the artists and activists in the Young Lords Party in ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York. Curated by Johanna Fernandez and Yasmin Ramírez, the Bronx exhibit aims to give local and global context for Young Lords’s activism while situating the…… Continue reading The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
When the Young Lords Were Outlaws in New York
by Holland Cotter for the New York Times On July 26, 1969, a group of young Latinos stood in the band shell in Tompkins Square Park, in the East Village, and made an announcement. They were founding a New York branch of a revolution-minded political party called the Young Lords. Inspired by the Black Panthers…… Continue reading When the Young Lords Were Outlaws in New York
Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
By Shant Shahrigian for the Riverdale Press A large banner with an AK-47 silhouetted in front of a cutout of the Puerto Rican flag greets visitors to the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ latest show, conveying something of the shock New Yorkers might have felt when the Young Lords took the city by storm starting…… Continue reading Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Three New York City venues look back at the Puerto Rican nationalist group By MARK ARMAO for the Wall Street Journal When garbage started piling up on East Harlem sidewalks in the late 1960s because of irregular trash collection, a group of young activists decided to intervene. They dragged the discarded mattresses, old refrigerators and abandoned…… Continue reading The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Work by more than 70 emerging artists from across New York featured in Bronx Calling by VICTORIA STAPLEY-BROWN for The Art Newspaper Twice each year, 18 emerging artists living in the New York metropolitan area participate in Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, a professional development residency programme whose alumni…… Continue reading Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Marchers demand cleaner air, healthier food
By Rachel Brown for the Hunts Point Express Dozens of Hunts Point residents marched with nearly 400,000 demonstrators in the People’s Climate March in Manhattan this past Sunday, calling on world leaders to make drastic changes, all the while chanting slogans such as, “The South Bronx is under attack. What do we do? Stand up,…… Continue reading Marchers demand cleaner air, healthier food
‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
By: Erin Clarke for NY1 Link to original article and video A popular event from the past is being revived that will close the Grand Concourse for three days this summer and turn it into a wide thoroughfare open for recreation. NY1’s Erin Clarke filed the following report. No vehicles, not even one, will pass…… Continue reading ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
Community leaders looking to restore Bronx tradition by bringing ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Concourse Village
Bronx organizers and business leaders hope to bring ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Grand Concourse nearly two decades after the pedestrian-friendly event was axed by Giuliani administration BY JOEY SCARBOROUGH / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A beloved Grand Concourse tradition put on hold under Rudy Giuliani may be revived for the first time in two decades if…… Continue reading Community leaders looking to restore Bronx tradition by bringing ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Concourse Village
A Bronx Blast From the Past: Car-Free Grand Concourse Gets CB 4 Support
by Stephen Miller for Streetsblog It’s been an on-again, off-again tradition for at least two decades: Turning the center lanes of the Grand Concourse into a car-free space for stress-free walking, biking and exercise. With an overwhelming vote of support from Community Board 4 earlier this week, it seems this tradition is poised for a return this…… Continue reading A Bronx Blast From the Past: Car-Free Grand Concourse Gets CB 4 Support
WADE IN THE WATER AT BRONX RIVER ART CENTER
http://www.bronxnet.org/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv_html5/player.swf Hautey Ramos from Bronx River Art Center is back to discuss the Waterfront event happening at Bronx River Art Center.
Guest Lesson | Thinking Critically About Food in a Season of Plenty
By Suzie Boss for the Learning Network of the New York Times Go to related article » This is the second post in a series in which the education writer Suzie Boss suggests ways to use The New York Times Fixes blog and other resources as inspiration for designing real-world projects for schools. In her first post, “For Authentic Learning, Start…… Continue reading Guest Lesson | Thinking Critically About Food in a Season of Plenty
Citizen Placemakers: Elizabeth Hamby & Hatuey Ramos Fermín Use Art to Bring People Together
By Patra Jongjitirat for Project for Public Spaces Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos Fermín are people connectors. As artists, activists, and Bronxites, their creative collaborations are all about gathering information from neighbors and presenting it in ways that allow communities to better understand themselves and the urban spaces they create. The two have worked in all kinds of…… Continue reading Citizen Placemakers: Elizabeth Hamby & Hatuey Ramos Fermín Use Art to Bring People Together
How Do Supermarkets Decide Where to Open?
A funky, fresh look at how supermarkets work in urban neighborhoods By CUP for Gilt Taste Last year, we shared a fantastic video made by high school students on the food in convenience stores in their Bronx neighborhoods. Rather than take the tsk-tsk approach of many who write about the “food deserts” where low-income people can’t find…… Continue reading How Do Supermarkets Decide Where to Open?
Bienal de Arte en el Bronx
Por: EFE para Telemundo Más de 75 artistas participan en la Tercera Bienal de Arte Latinoamericano en El Bronx, que se realiza bajo el tema de “correlación ilusoria” en un evento cultural que busca establecer el arte como lenguaje común en este condado. “La mayoría de los países latinoamericanos están representados” en las cinco sedes…… Continue reading Bienal de Arte en el Bronx
