Storefront for Art and Architecture is turning 40 this year. The New York institution’s new exhibition, Public Space in A Private Time: Building Storefront for Art and Architecture, commemorates the occasion by displaying materials from Storefront’s archive from 1982—when it was founded by Kyong Park and R.L. Seltman—to the early 2000s. The work included is from a diverse group of artists and architects including Nam June Paik and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But more than simply being a display of work, the exhibition highlights what an integral role Storefront has played in the city’s urban history and, perhaps unintentionally, how that role and the possibilities that it once offered have diminished over the past years, with the changing urban and political landscape of New York.
Public Space in a Private Time is on view until December 17, 2022. Photo by Andrea Molina Cuadro, courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture
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