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Police handcuff activist filming them
Ed Garcia Conde found himself in handcuffs shortly after he left the Bronx Documentary Centers latest show on March 14. His crime? “Creating a dangerous situation,” said police. Videotaping police misconduct, says Garcia Conde.
Artists recapture South Bronx history
Bronx history" />Three participants in a radical artistic collaboration in the late 1970s were reunited at the Bronx Documentary Center on Feb. 16 to recall a time when a shabby storefront near the Hub became a hot spot of the New York art world.
Sculpting family carved Mott Haven legacy
The Piccirillis were. master carvers who lived and worked in Mott Haven. They carved many famous sculptures, including their most famous, of Abraham Lincoln.
Crowds flock to photos of area’s recent past
Seis del Sur show emphasizes South Bronxs vibrancy Among the hundreds of people who jammed the Bronx Documentary Center on Jan. 19 for the opening of the exhibit “Seis Del Sur: Dispatches from Home by Six Nuyorican Photographers” were many who looked at the photos and saw their own past. They gazed at images of [...]
Six Bronx photographers get overdue homecoming
Bronx photographers get overdue homecoming" />Photo exhibit will feature insiders’ view of ’70s and ’80s South Bronx A chance meeting at a photo exhibit at Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies in 2010 led six South Bronx photographers who have shared a common vision of life in the neighborhood for over thirty years to join forces for the first [...]
