Bowery Brawl: New Museum V. New Museum

After you have visited New Museum and seen the energetically glowing Benglis retrospective as well as visited the excellent 5th floor installation created for “Museum as Hub” ( with Yael Bartana, Dora Garcia, Wael Shawky, and Carey Young), for an even more enlightening experience head a bit uptown to a less known, though far longer-lived venue known as La Mama Galleria that is just off Bowery at 1st Street where veteran art activist Day Gleeson presents her print-based work about neighborhood gentrification that includes a wobbling seven-foot high inflatable slice of real estate that curiously resembles NM (minus the enormous rose)! Check it out:

http://lamama.org/lagalleria/day-gleeson-retrospective/