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Rent hikes drive artists from BankNote building

by | September 2, 2009 | 0 comments
Rent hikes drive artists from BankNote building

By Jeanmarie Evelly jmevelly@gmail.com When sculptor Albert Bensusen lost his studio in downtown Manhattan 10 years ago, a friend showed him pictures of a studio he’d just rented. “I said, ‘Wow, that’s beautiful. Where is it?’” the spry 79 year-old Bensusen recalled. To his surprise, the loft—with its high, airy [...]

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If Hunts Point is discovered, can artists afford to stay?

by | June 1, 2009 | 0 comments
If Hunts Point is discovered, can artists afford to stay?

By Azriel James Relph azriel.james.relph@gmail.com Louis Nieves squints at the horizon, grasps his paintbrush, and sweeps pigmented oil across canvas, mimicking the colors and shapes of the setting sun over the brick buildings and bodegas of East 140th Street in Mott Haven. The South Bronx art scene is getting on [...]