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WhiteBox (art Center)
WhiteBox is a Nonprofit organization, non-profit art space located in New York City. It hosts contemporary exhibitions, performance, video and special events including readings, lectures and panel discussions. History The organization was founded by Juan Puntes as an alternative art space for innovative, experimental and thought-provoking contemporary art. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1997, before relocating to Chelsea, Manhattan, Chelsea, New York City in 1998. In the years 1998 and 1999, Whitebox was nominated for “Best Group Show” by the International Art Critics Association for "Plural Speech" and for a survey of Viennese Actionists, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus. Later exhibitions included artists Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, Dennis Oppenheim, Dennins Oppenheim, Braco Dimitrijević, Braco Dimitrijevic, Naoto Nagakawa, Alison Knowles, John Cage and Aldo Tambellini. In 2008 WhiteBox decided to leave Chelsea to move to the Lower East Side, where a few galleries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue B (Manhattan)
Avenue B is a north–south avenue located in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, east of Avenue A and west of Avenue C. It runs from Houston Street to 14th Street, where it continues into a loop road in Stuyvesant Town, to be connected with Avenue A. Below Houston Street, Avenue B continues as Clinton Street to South Street. It is the eastern border of Tompkins Square Park. History The street was created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as one of 16 north-south streets specified as in width, including 12 numbered avenues and four designated by letter located east of First Avenue. In 1824, prior to any construction, its width was reduced to , the standard for cross-streets, by taking from the east side. The city reasoned that the lettered avenues were "incapable of use as thoroughfares to and from the City" and could not "be considered as avenues in the proper Sense of the term." East End Avenue On the Upper East Side, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
