New exhibit by street artist JR, Unframed–Ellis Island, with Save Ellis Island features life sized historical photographs on Ellis Island's South Side hospitals.
Around the City you may have noticed instances of new and original street art, so we thought it best to round up a few of them you might not have heard about.
Street Artist JR working in collaboration with The New York City Ballet, showcases a new installation in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
In 1964, Mayor Robert F. Wagner awarded Martin Luther King Jr. the Medallion of Honor and declared him an "honorary New Yorker". See photos of Dr. King in NYC.
A lesser-known attack on Martin Luther King, Jr. occurred in 1958 on 125th Street in Harlem at a book signing where he was stabbed in the chest.
Re+Public app uses your smartphone to visualize historical murals and street art, like long gone pieces at the popular Bowery Mural in NYC by JR, Keith Haring.
Inside Out: The People’s Art Project, a documentary about French artist JR and his participatory art project, is set to
JR has a mural in the quirky Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita, NYC, itself in danger of being converted into affordable housing.
This video recaps the JR Inside Out Photobooth that was set up in Times Square in April 2013, producing the 6,000 faces that were pasted onto the floor.
JR and José Parlá's Leda Antonia Machado Mural towers over the corner of 24th Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea like a gatekeeper of the galleries around it.