This tour focuses on the impact that art on the Lower East Side had—and continues to have—on its

community. Big art history

names like Jacob Riis and Mark Rothko are mentioned, but the sustained creative energy of this Lower East Side forms the
centerpiece of this tour. Join us as we wind our way up from the old Jewish “Ghetto” towards the punk splattered streets of the
East Village. Our walk through this neighborhood unravels the story of creative expression in modern America. We'll use history,
art, and community voices to trace modern art's dramatic roots in Settlement Houses to its recent commercial success.

Gotham SideWalks.… Art History Lower East Side: ghetto to new museum

Black Mountain College

Artist Keith
opens; Diego Rivera hired Claes Oldenburg's Terrorists
"The 8" show Haring dies of
The Armory for Rockefeller Center The Street mimics attack, Twin
opens and the Prohibition rids Wild Style AIDS
Show opens 1933 Lower East Side; Towers fall New Museum
"Ashcan the Bowery of filmed in NYC 1990
Educational School" is born 1913 MoMA's influential Andy Warhol opens re-opens on
its economy Picasso show opens 1980-82
2001
Alliance Art 1908 1919 "Factory" at Union Sq. Bowery
school born as WWII begins 1960 2007
1895 1939

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Hilly
George President Roosevelt Krystal
Alfred Stieglitz opens gallery Gershwin enacts the WPA amidst Pollock has 4-page opens Mayor Giuliani starts
promoting photography composes the Great Depression spread in Life Magazine CBGB's Tenement Anti-Graffiti Task Force Major
and abstract painting Rhapsody 1935 Museum
1949 1973 1995 recession
in Blue opens
1903 Lower East Side Print 2009
1924 1992
Shop opens on E. 4th
1978-2002

National Academy of Design,1825 Brooklyn Institute,1843 Metropolitan Museum,1870 Museum of the City of New York,1923 Museum of Modern Art,1929 Whitney Museum,1931 Guggenheim Museum,1937 New Museum,1977