Archive for 'Art'
Artists renew effort to float giant dome
Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by Editor.
Thwarted by wind and water in their effort last fall to float a huge dome built of discarded umbrellas from Hunts Point to the Harlem River and upriver to Inwood, the artists behind Harvest Dome have launched an effort to rebuilt their sculpture.
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New documentary center opens in Melrose
Posted on 12. Nov, 2011 by By Evan Buxbaum.
Gallery shows work of photographer killed in Libya The inaugural exhibition at the new Bronx Documentary Center on Courtlandt Avenue highlights the final works of a major talent whose life came to a tragic end thousands of miles away – while its founders reflect on the tribute they’ve built for their fallen friend. Visions: Tim [...]
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Dancer breathes new life into traditional art form
Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by By Melissa Noel .
A physical injury may cause some workers to question a career choice, but it gave Milteri Tucker the drive to pursue two. Tucker, a professional dancer, was left unable to practice after a not so graceful landing from a grand jete (split -in -the -air) during a practice for her first solo performance more than [...]
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Hunts Point artists share ‘outsider’ theme
Posted on 11. Oct, 2011 by Paul DeBenedetto.
An exhibition at Mott Haven’s BronxArtSpace gallery in August showed off the work of four local artists who have used different art forms to transcend stereotypes about people with disabilities. Jose Rivera grew up an orphan on the streets of San Juan. At the age of 14 he enrolled at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, [...]
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Bronx Documentary Center opens
Posted on 30. Aug, 2011 by cunyjschool.
The Bronx Documentary Center, a new space for photography and film on Courtlandt Ave in Mott Haven, is open to the public, with free film screenings. This Thursday, Sept. 1, the documentary “Fernando Nation” by director Cruz Angeles from LA will be shown, tracing the career of Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who hailed from the [...]
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Bronx streetscapes take center stage in new exhibition
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Emilio Sanchez made his first trek down Hunts Point’s Food Center Drive in 1988, when he was 67, to an art gallery in the caverns of the Krasdale Foods complex where his art was being shown. His friend Sig Balka, general attorney for Krasdale and art connoisseur, was showing Sanchez’s work in the gallery [...]
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Two South Bronx groups win city awards
Posted on 01. Aug, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
Two stalwarts of the arts in the South Bronx received prestigious Neighborhood Achievement Awards from the mayor’s office in July. The Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education in Hunts Point and Pregones Theater near Mott Haven were among fourteen organizations and individuals citywide to get the 2011 award at a ceremony at Gracie Mansion, [...]
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Teen photography workshop teaches perspective
Posted on 29. Jun, 2011 by Paul DeBenedetto.
Camera offers students a new way of seeing their neighborhood When Geancarlo Jordan moved to the United States from Ecuador two years ago, his only experience with a camera was to point it at something and hit the shutter button. But over the last four months, Jordan, 17, estimates he has taken thousands of photos [...]
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Mott Haven walls keep memories alive
Posted on 04. Jun, 2011 by Daniel Rosenblum.
Memorial murals are leading South Bronx art form By Dan Rosenblum rosemblum@motthavenherald.com A tradition that started in the Bronx’s deadliest days, when homicide was an everyday occurrence, still marks the borough’s streets. As blood fell on the pavement, paint rose on the walls. Beginning in the early 1990s, memorial murals began to appear in Mott [...]
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Reports of art scene’s death are exaggerated
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Cheryl Chan.
Artists say change defines their relationship with Mott Haven Hatuey Ramos Fermin sits in the most famous apartment in Mott Haven, recording a podcast called “South Bronx Filter.” Fermin is the current tenant of Apartment 3A at 309 Alexander Avenue, which housed the Blue Bedroom where for two years his friend Blanka Amezkua displayed the [...]
