Students use artistic muse to send message
Middle schoolers from MS 219X used school lunch tables as their canvases, to paint and draw depictions of issues that affect their communities, such as teenage pregnancy, gangs and violence,…
Six 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…
From the editor: Art for all
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…
New exhibition celebrates the Bronx
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…
Bronx museum offers free admission, school programs
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.
Artist finds beauty in Bronx’s gritty streets
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,…
Teen pregnancy rates remain high
As the city has started to introduce a new sex education program for middle and high schools, Mott Haven has emerged as the neighborhood with the highest teen pregnancy rate…
Artists renew effort to float giant dome
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,…