A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale
A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale By David Gonzalez New York Times City Room Blog The notion of popular art must have seemed like a really hard sell in the South Bronx 30 years ago. The blight all around was the least of it. Fact is, what usually passed for objets d’art in apartments with plastic slipcovers and plaster saints were ornate, flamingo-bedecked mirrors or renderings of the Last Supper. Yet it was among these neighborhoods reeling from neglect and devastation that an intrepid…
