CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
On the Waterfront:
A View from the Coast (Line)
On the Waterfront:COLLABORATION BETWEEN CENTRAL BOOKING AND THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
March 3 – April 23, 2023
Curator: Maddy Rosenberg
The exhibition is open Saturdays and Sundays 12-6pm or by appointment
Following CENTRAL BOOKING research collaborations with the New York Academy of Medicine and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the New-York Historical Society was approached for a project steeped in the ecosystems of the Brooklyn waterfront and the last surviving section of functioning port within New York City’s boundaries. The life along the New York harbor integrates the wildlife, land and neighborhoods of human-made architectural elements, the New-York Historical Society collections preserve many of the earlier roots along the way to the transformations of today.
The project began with the selection of fourteen artists who embraced the research residency as a starting point for their own exhibition installations. Though a number are New York artists and delve deeply to find more beneath the familiar, some offer the perspective of a distant neighbor, while still others that of a de Tocqueville, as an observer from another nation with the insights and biases of the outsider.