activism
Video: Program Helps Artists Make Their Work a Tool for Social Change
Melissa Rose Cooper |
Artists are hoping to produce work relevant to the issues facing neighborhoods and connect with people leading the fight for change.
Art at the Limits
A Rezoning Poem: ‘Surviving in the Neighborhood’
Ijaaza EL-Nuwaubun |
‘It is a responsibility to look towards the betterment of all, living in the neighborhood.’
art
Ben Carson Might Slash its Budget, but Some see Public Housing as a Work of Art
Jarrett Murphy |
NYCHA has undertaken a comprehensive effort to inventory the art it owns with the aim of making it more visible to residents and the city at large. The hope is to make the value of public housing clearer to all.
Art at the Limits
Gentrification and Homelessness: A One-Man Drama
Melissa Rose Cooper |
In a span of three weeks, Kilusan Bautista experienced the fear and rejection of being evicted, living on the street and being denied for new places to live. From that dark place, he created a one-man show exploring the human impact of gentrification and displacement. A video story by Melissa Cooper.
Video
Video: Music and Protest in the Trump Era
Jarrett Murphy |
A top hip-hop concert promoter, a veteran entertainment lawyer and a music journalist talk about the past and present of protest music, especially its hip-hop variety.
art
Re-enter, Stage Right: Out of Prison and Into the Arts
Brooke L. Williams |
‘People tend to have a stereotyped notion of who’s incarcerated and I think when they see people presenting their lives or being creative, they have to reconsider.’
Art at the Limits
NYC’s Memorial Murals Honor Those Who’ve Gone, Then Go Themselves
Nicole Javorsky |
The walls of city buildings often become memorials to children claimed by disease, to adults taken by violence or to the victims of war or terrorist attacks. It’s a way for memories to live on, until the mural itself becomes a thing of the past.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Does a TKTS Booth on the Upper West Side Really Broaden Access to Broadway?
Hillary Miller |
TKTS was started to bring new audiences, especially lower-income people of color, into New York City theaters. Then and now, the locations for discount ticket sales haven’t reached as far needed into those communities.
art
Amid Real-Estate Squeeze, Trying to Carve Out Space for NYC’s Emerging Artists
Melissa Rose Cooper |
As developers target buildings and neighborhoods that used to offer affordable studio space to artists, more and more practitioners are finding it difficult simply to find a way to do their work. One nonprofit is trying to preserve room for creativity.
art
Photo Essay: Street Art, Beyond 5 Pointz
Adi Talwar |
The street-art movement was never dependent on one space, and since 5 Pointz’s demise, new work has shifted to new spots or to ones that were already operating. The long-running Welling Court Mural Project near the Astoria waterfront is one of the latter.
