New York's James Cohan Gallery has been protested over an Omer Fast show which has created «the waiting room of
a Chinatown business with an eclectic aesthetic», featuring distressed tiling; paper lanterns, Chinese menus and graffiti.
Yesterday, the art collective Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) led a protest at James Cohan Gallery's Chinatown space in New York, where the Berlin - based artist Omer Fast has transformed a ground - floor Grand Street facade and part of its interior into what a news release calls «the waiting room of
a Chinatown business with an eclectic aesthetic.»
Members of Chinatown Art Brigade and other protesters taking over the front room of James Cohan Gallery, which was transformed to appear like a poorly maintained
Chinatown business.
We are writing to you as a collective of artists, activists and community residents to condemn your current exhibition August, in which the facade and interior of the gallery have been transformed into «the waiting room of
a Chinatown business with an eclectic aesthetic.»
The show trivializes and ridicules Chinatown by displaying broken ATMs, torn up chairs, linoleum floors held together by duct tape, plastic bags attached to door handles, and a dilapidated awning that serves as the entrance to a run - down
Chinatown business.
Jerusalem - born video artist Omer Fast has transformed the exterior and interior of the James Cohan Gallery on the border of Chinatown into «the waiting room of
a Chinatown business with an eclectic aesthetic,» according to a description on the gallery's website.
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I thought it was strange they felt they needed to mark their
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Chinatown).
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business they founded has never stopped growing.
Scattered throughout
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business line the main and surrounding streets.
Council Member Chin, who had originally claimed to support the landmarking of 135 Bowery, argued that, «there is opportunity on the site to build commercial space that is so needed in the
Chinatown community for the small
businesses.»
In addition to numerous
business owners based in Flushing, Queens and
Chinatown, Liu earned support from several local unions, including $ 4,150 from DC 37's political action committee, $ 1,250 from Local 32BJ, $ 1,500 from TWU Local 100, $ 1,500 from the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, and $ 2,000 from the Uniformed Fire Officers Association.
-- Mei Lum: Owner of Mott Street's Wing on Wo & Co, the oldest continuously run
business in
Chinatown.
Many new members own small
businesses, including Wilson Tang, 33, who runs the 90 - year - old
Chinatown fixture, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, which has been in his family for decades.
Advocates pushing for the street's reopening, who discussed the issue with U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood at meeting in
Chinatown last month, have cited the inconveniences posed by the stretch's closure, including the negative impact on area
businesses and the fact that residents have to show identification when traveling to and from their homes.
At 1 p.m., Malliotakis starts a walking tour of
Chinatown, during which she will meet with local community and
business leaders, starting at the Joy Luck Palace Restaurant, 98 Mott St., Manhattan.
«It's important that this group, working all over the city but particularly in Flushing,
Chinatown, Midwood and Sunset Park, have a voice in the making of policies that impact their
businesses,» Meng said.
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It also addresses the artist's practice in the context of
Chinatown: «As a gallery representing the non U.S., non New York based artist Omer Fast, it is reprehensible that you see fit to support this exploration of «temporal space» while contributing to the displacement of low income tenants and
business owners in
Chinatown.
From the moment he opened his first gallery in L.A.'s
Chinatown in 2003, Kordansky has built a reputation as one of the sharper eyes in the
business, making stars of young artists like Jonas Wood, Elad Lassry, and Thomas Houseago while at the same time investing the careers of under - appreciated veterans like Sam Gilliam and John Mason with renewed vigor and relevance.
While the release describes Fast's installation as «fictional,» it does not make clear that the installation is less an homage to the past
business than a compilation of various objects that have been stereotypically associated with
Chinatown and have little accuracy to the neighborhood.
Coincidentally, James Griffin, who had been Katie's assistant for years and was in the process of becoming Katie's
business partner, suggested my work to Katie for inclusion in a group show in
Chinatown.
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