NYAB Event - "Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now" Exhibition

"Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now" Exhibition

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At The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Media: Painting, Drawing, Photography

The first of a new, multi-year series of exhibitions that look at contemporary culture as a “living archive,” Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now draws primarily from the personal collections of a number of artists that have been working in and on the Bronx since the late 1970s. In their collections, the testimonies of long-time residents and occasional visitors coexist in the form of mementos, documentation, artwork and other sort of cultural artifacts.

Conceived as a means to open up the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection to the public while also offering new possibilities of interpreting it, the Urban Archives series proposes to engage artists, writers, curators and other arts professionals in the greater New York area in an ongoing dialogue about contemporary issues.