A love letter to NYC
Museum of the City of New York shares photo exhibit
BY MYRIAN GARCIA
Celebrating the City, a
new photography exhibition
featuring a selection
of over 100 images telling
the varied stories of New York
City, opens on Feb. 18 at the
Museum of the City of New
York on the Upper East Side.
The images will range from
documentary to quirky and
architectural to atmospheric.
Among the many talented
photographers, the event will
showcase Helen Levitt’s dynamic
street photography, Sylvia
Plachy’s eccentric examination
of people and animals
of NYC and Michael Spano’s
slice-of-life city shots spanning
the 1990s and 2000s.
Celebrating the City is organized
into ten categories, each
featuring mundane acts such as
working or shopping, illustrating
the universality of NYC.
Exhibition highlights include
Bruce Cratsley’s “Brooklyn
Bridge Centennial,” Ken Heyman’s
“Dogs’ Last Swim in
Central Park Lake, New York,”
Inge Morath’s “A Llama in
Times Square” and many more.
“In addition to offering
glimpses of life in the city, ‘Celebrating
the City’ juxtaposes
various picture-making approaches,
showing the different
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A New York street-scene taken as the camera faces diagonally down the Orchard Street
marketplace. A streetlight with attached street signs for Stanton and Orchard is center in
the extreme foreground.
ways in which photographs are
created as well as illuminating
the decision-making process
behind photography, collecting,
and curation,” said Sean
Corcoran, senior curator of
prints and photographs, Museum
of the City of New York.
This exhibition will specifi -
cally present images recently
gifted to the Museum by the
Joy of Giving Something. JGS
is a New York-based nonprofi t
organization dedicated to the
photographic arts. This organization
has supported numerous
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
emerging artists through
awards, acquisitions and book
projects. Currently, JGS focuses
on expanding access to
visual arts education and supporting
artists in photography
and related media via scholarships
and grants to museums,
schools and community-based
organizations.
“JGS is extremely pleased to
donate a substantial group of
prints from our collection to
the Museum of the City of New
York. Most of the work in our
donation features New York as
subject and it is a great match
that the photographs stay in
New York to be enjoyed by audiences
far and wide,” says Jeffrey
Hoone, President of JGS.
“New York continues to be a
subject for photographic artists
from around the world and JGS
is proud to help continue that
legacy as we support younger
artists through our many
different programs.”
Another event to look forward
to is “Return Sale,” an
in-person exhibition featuring
work that documents the entwined
relationship between
real estate and retail in Lower
Manhattan. Open Feb. 19 to
April 3 at the Abrons Arts
Center, this event examines the
defunct, destroyed and rebuilt
malls and department stores
to trace the “mall-ifi cation” of
Lower Manhattan parallel to
cycles of crisis in NYC.
The Wythe Hotel also plans
to bring back the annual gathering
of “On Air Fest” from
Feb. 25-26. This event focuses
on the exploration of storytelling
and creativity in sound and
will feature sneak previews,
intimate conversations, exclusive
performances and more.
Dubbed the “Sundance of
Audio,” this event will feature
appearances from Chuck D,
Dr. Jane Goodall, The Moth
and SPAM.
Bronx Brewery opens Village location
BY JASON COHEN
For more than a decade
the Bronx Brewery has
provided tasty food, craft
beer and been a staple in the
South Bronx community. Now,
the popular watering hole is
expanding its reach.
On Feb. 5, it opened its
second location, The Bronx
Brewery East Village in Manhattan,
at 64 2nd Ave. The
3,000-square-foot space,
which can seat 75 people, features
limited-release brewing,
signature events, art and music
and the fi rst-ever U.S. location
for Swedish burger brandBastard
Burgers. Bastard Burgers,
which have been serving
New York-inspired burgers in
Sweden since 2016, uses plantbased
alternatives — 100%
vegan burgers.
The new space will also
have a mural by one of the
brewery’s regular collaborators
and Bronx artist, Andre
Trenier, as well as work from
Swedish artist and muralist,
Marc UÅ, who creates custom
pieces for every one of the
Bastard Burgers locations.
President of the Bronx Brewery,
Damian Brown, told the
Bronx Times they signed the
lease for the location in February
2020, but then COVID-19
arrived and threw a wrench in
their plans.
He and his colleagues fi rst
began thinking about expanding
back in 2019 and
looked all over the city for
a space. They settled on the
East Village because of its rich
history in art, music and culture.
According to Brown, the
brewery was never just about
food and booze, but instead
about wanting to make an impact
on the community. Over
the years, it has partnered with
local organizations, including
an internship with Beer Kulture
that promoted diversity in
craft beer; worked with Bronx
Tattoo Legends Tuff City to
help design the label for a fusion
of a hazy IPA and a classic
pumpkin ale; and collaborated
with Bronx Native and BX
People at the new Bronx Brewery location in Manhattan at
its grand opening on Saturday, Feb. 5.
Writers on a writing contest to
appear on their beers in 2020.
“The neighborhood here
should expect a brewery that is
PHOTO BY ADRIAN CHILDRESS
grounded in the community,”
he said. “We’re just excited
to show what we are doing to
more people.”
24 February 17, 2022 Schneps Media