November 2008Observed

City Scenes

Posted November 19, 2008

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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Garry Winogrand, Women’s Liberation March, New York, 1971
digital image © the Museum of Modern Art/licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY
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