Archive for 'Art'
Six Bronx photographers get overdue homecoming
Posted on 15. May, 2012 by By Flonia Telegrafi.
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 [...]
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From the editor: Art for all
Posted on 11. Apr, 2012 by Bernard L. Stein.
Now that the Bloomberg administration has converted New York’s public schools to sweatshops for the manufacture of standardized test scores, students have to look elsewhere to learn about and be inspired by art. That’s where museums and exhibit spaces come in, and, fortunately, the Bronx is leading the way by offering first-class work at a [...]
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New exhibition celebrates the Bronx
Posted on 06. Apr, 2012 by By Amora McDaniel .
Works by 32 artists show borough’s many sides at Freedman House Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering life as the home of a new art exhibit featuring 32 artists whose work meditates on the Bronx’s past and future. Connoisseurs and artists mixed [...]
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Bronx museum offers free admission, school programs
Posted on 03. Apr, 2012 by cunyjschool.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has begun offering free admission at all times, to expand access to more visitors and to help ring in the museum’s 40th anniversary.
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Artist finds beauty in Bronx’s gritty streets
Posted on 29. Feb, 2012 by By Amora McDaniel .
In grungy elevated subway tracks and aging apartment buildings Daniel Hauben has found what other landscape artists find in sunlit forests and seaside villas. Now, 22 paintings of Bronx scenes, commissioned by Bronx Community College, will welcome visitors to the the college’s new library.
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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 [...]
