In NYC, a Latinx Arts Center Dissolves Its Membership Program for a New Start

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A New Start for the Clemente Soto Center

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side was founded in 1996 to preserve and promote Puerto Rican and Latinx art and culture.But for nearly two decades, control over the building has been “contested between its original Latino founders and a group of predominantly white artists who hold leases to the studios,” claims a recent open letter by the advocacy group Free The Clemente.

The Laundromat Project Moves to Brooklyn

The Laundromat Project’s Field Day Festival: Harlem in 2015. (photo by Ray Llanos; courtesy the LP)

The Laundromat Project, an arts nonprofit that supports community-based projects across New York City, will relocate its headquarters to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for its 15th anniversary.And….A truck parked in front of the Guggenheim welcomed museum members on opening day with digital screens reading pro-union messages.Louis Shadwick, a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute in London, has discovered that Edward Hopper reproduced some of his early paintings from a how-to arts magazine when he was a teenager.

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