Organized by Museum at Eldridge Street Stroll through the neighborhood’s 100-year-old history! A century ago, the Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as they built their new lives in a new land. Today, there are signs of the past hidden […]
Organized by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Originally a Native American footpath and Dutch farm road, the Bowery was the city’s first entertainment district and “cradle of American popular culture.” It has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, baseball, modern tattooing, and Harry Houdini. The stomping ground for sailors, shopgirls, gangs, gays, grifters […]
Organized by Anthology Film Archives in partnership with Soft Network/AFELL and Noble Gas Media Bruce Conner THE WHITE ROSE 1967, 7 min, 35mm A work born of Bruce Conner’s profound friendship with artist Jay DeFeo, THE WHITE ROSE captures the 1965 removal, from her first-floor San Francisco apartment, of DeFeo’s eponymous painting, a monumental work […]
