November 2008 • Observed
City Scenes
The urban thoroughfare gets a star turn in Street Art, Street Life, a new exhibition at Arquitectonica’s two-year-old addition to the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Carousing through a half century of artistic provocations and watershed moments—including work by Garry Winogrand, Joseph Beuys, Martha Rosler, and Fatimah Tuggar—the show shatters conventions of genre, race, sexuality, history, and geography, and begs for another major expansion, or at least a little more light from the street.
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