The Bronx Museum News

TV and podcast personalities Daniel Baker (a.k.a Desus Nice) and Joel Martinez (a.k.a. The Kid Mero) were honored at the Bronx Museum Visionary Duos Gala.

From painting murals under the alias “Ease,” to creating large-scale installations on the sides of buildings in Havana, José Parlá has always felt most comfortable working in the streets.

When Holly Block, the former director of Bronx Museum of the Arts, died at age 58 in 2017, the New York art world went into a period of mourning. “She refused to bow to preconceived notions of what an art museum—particularly one in the Bronx—could or should be,” Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio…

Partygoers flocked uptown last week for the Bronx Museum of Art’s first-ever BxMA Ball. The evening honored Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont, with a plethora of stars filling out the guest list, like Henry Chalfant, José Parlá, fashion designer Jerome LaMaar, and Gucci’s Antoine Phillips. Guests heard several music performances from surprise guests like TK…

The 79-year-old looks back on a career of capturing graffiti and the hip-hop scene in Manhattan through the 70s and 80s.

On the busy thoroughfare of the Grand Concourse in the South Bronx stands a contemporary building resembling origami. Home to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, this cultural institution offers the Bronx and Greater New York City seasonal exhibitions and an impressive permanent art collection. Currently on display is Henry Chalfant’s graffiti archive and Alvin…

The artist’s photographs, a major act of urban historical preservation, are on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

No photographer has documented the emergence and development of street art and hip-hop culture as honestly as Henry Chalfant did. One of the foremost authorities on the New York subway art and other aspects of urban youth culture, his photographs and films immortalized hundreds of ephemeral, original artworks that have long since vanished. These archives…

Alvin Baltrop’s photographs of the abandoned Hudson River piers and the people who populated them in the 1970s and ’80s have been all but ignored. Until now.

The Bronx-born photographer captured gay culture on the outskirts in 70s Manhattan and his work is finally receiving the attention it deserves.

In December of 1973, a section of the West Side Elevated Highway between Little West 12th and Gansevoort Streets, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, collapsed under the weight of an asphalt truck, permanently closing the highway south of the accident. For the next 15 years, while the city wrung its hands over the cost of rehabilitating…

Documenting the West Side Piers from 1975 to 1986, Alvin Baltrop’s photographs of nude sunbathing, gay sex, s/m, cruising, artmaking, crime, and death chronicle an era of deindustrialization. Bodies and buildings hide each other, dissolving the boundaries between their divergent forms. An important record of queer and trans history, the Bronx Museum’s retrospective—featuring 120 photographs,…