Do NYC’s Museums Meet Low-Income Visitors Halfway?
“By meeting New Yorkers where they are, the Corona Plaza project exemplifies a broader, more inclusive concept of a museum that activists and artists from communities of color, low-income neighborhoods and other traditionally marginalized groups have championed for decades. Museums are more than columned containers for static installations, says Antonio Serna, an artist and activist who runs the Alternative Economies Working Group, a program that explores ways to sustain artists from low-income communities.”