Tag: chinatown

  • Of Gentrifiers and Rice

    Of Gentrifiers and Rice

    Review of “CLAPBACK 2.Gently Weeps” at Sleep Center (9 Monroe Street Basement, New York, NY 10002, USA), Feb 28–Mar 13, 2016 The familiar story of gallery-led gentrification in New York took a fetishistic turn with its latest expansion to Chinatown. Look no further than i-D’s romanticization of “garbage-laden streets” in a profile of the area’s…