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Fall Travel: Street Style in the Bronx

September 16, 2008 at 10:01 AM | 0 Comments

Nowadays, the words "street art" usually conjure up images of quirky Banksy murals or upscale galleries hosting graffiti battles.

But the new exhibit Street Art, Street Life focuses on images of a very different kind--photography that documents New York's fast-paced and posture-heavy sidewalk culture, from the 1950s through today.

The show offers a simple focus on people in the city and how they've inspired artists throughout the years--the kind of straightforward concept that's hard to find in the compartmentalized downtown art world. Not surprisingly, it's far from downtown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The show, which opened this weekend, runs through January 15.

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[Photo: Bronx Museum of the Arts]