Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part two of a series.
Betty Yu
Join a Reading Group That Imagines a Future Beyond Gentrification
As part of her apexart exhibition, artist, activist, and curator Betty Yu will lead a discussion of works offering brilliant, accessible rebuttals to narratives of gentrification as positive or even unavoidable.
Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast’s “Racist” Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery’s Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as “racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown.”
In Brooklyn, a Forum Focuses the Fight Against Displacement
The road that led to last week’s Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement at the Brooklyn Museum was long and winding, but its starting point is very clear.