City Lore is now up and running at 54 E. First St. with its new gallery space at the former home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club.
For starters, a little about City Lore. Per the organization's
website:
Founded in 1986, City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs. We document, present, and advocate for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories, places and traditions. We work in four cultural domains: urban folklore and history; preservation; arts education; and grassroots poetry traditions. In each of these realms, we see ourselves as furthering cultural equity and modeling a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse as New York City itself.
"Moving Murals," City Lore's inaugural exhibition, opened this past Thursday … it features the photography of Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper…
Here's
a description:
Photographed during the "Golden Age of Graffiti" in the '70s and early '80s, Chalfant and Cooper's images of graffitied subway cars are among the major documents of American popular culture in the late twentieth century. Moving Murals presents the images in a wall to wall mosaic of over 850 muraled trains, creating an ultimate All City graffiti trainyard environment. Complimenting the murals: photographs of the writers in their element.
And for the first time, the exhibit provides an interactive audience experience through the addition of Chalfant's recently published iBook viewed on a large screen, complete with the train image archive, artist interviews, and videos.
We stopped by to check it out…
The exhibit is up through July 10. And there are
a few special events associated with it, including a screening of
the hip-hop documentaries "Style Wars" I and II on April 17.
The Gallery is open every Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
For more about City Lore and their new space, you can read this
article by Serena Solomon at DNAinfo from February.
