Martha Cooper

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Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper

New York, New York

Rain threatened but ultimately did not dampen the mood at yesterday’s Urban Arts Fest in Bushwick, an event
presented by Mark Batty Publishers. The venue was Castle Braid, a brand new apartment complex in the heart
of what used to be one of the most desolate neighborhoods in the city.  Street and graff artists decorated exterior
walls and hung their work in the freshly painted but still empty apartments.

Bushwick has become one of the last affordable hoods for artists to live and work in New York City. Although I
participated in the festival and am always glad to see street art promoted, I did wonder who was promoting whom.
I can only hope that the present and future developers of Bushwick repay the creative people who brought them
there by designing buildings where artists and others of modest means can afford to live.


















Posted by Martha Cooper on October 04, 2009 at 09:57 AM

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Mercer wrote… Comment #1 posted on October 04, 2009 at 09:50 PM
I'm a huge fan and supporter of Indigo up there. I fully agree with the who was promoting who comment. Them apartments were way too expensive for most of the people who they supposedly intended for. Didn't roll through till later on but I was stoked though since I caught a pic of the only Jesus Saves peace I've seen.

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Martha Cooper is a photojournalist specializing in art and anthropology. She is among the handful of photographers who methodically documented subway graffiti during the 1970s and 1980s. Her body of work is the most extensive and significant of its kind.

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