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New York has always been a crossroads city. Immigrants collide with the indigenous population, those who proudly call themselves "native New Yorkers." Many Americans come seeking their fortunes. Artists arrive in droves not only allured by opportunity, but also by the desire to experience the clashing and intermixing of cultures, and of the visual cacophony of the frenzied urban landscape. For many New Yorkers, the city is one of struggle, plight, and survival amidst the burned-out concrete ghettos where drugs, prostitution, and thievery thrive. | |
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Attorney Street
Handball Court (with Autobiographical Poem by Piņero),
1982–84 Martin Wong (American, 1946–1999) Oil on canvas; 35–1/2 x 48 in. (90.2 x 121.9 cm.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Edith C. Blum Fund, 1984 (1984.110) |
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