Death of a Neighborhood

Bullet Space, publisher

1985–present

Will Sales, artist

1928–2013

Death of a Neighborhood, 1990–1991

Portfolio/Series title: Your House is Mine

Where object was made: New York, New York, United States

Material/technique: screen print

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 584 x 508 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 23 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1994.0025.33

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Visible and Divisible America: In Conversation with the 2019–2020 KU Common Book

Tales of Two Americas describes issues adversely affecting many American cities, including homelessness, joblessness, deindustrialization, and gentrification. Although poet Will Sales’s “Death of a Neighborhood” indicates the destructive power that many of these conditions can bring to cities, he believes in the resilience of residents and activists to keep neighborhoods alive.

Visible and Divisible America: In Conversation with the 2019–2020 KU Common Book

Exhibition Label:
"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
The portfolio Your House is Mine was produced in the wake of the 1989 Tompkins Square Riots in New York City; the events surrounding the confrontation of police and radicals over the eviction of squatters in Lower East Side properties and the 300 homeless living in Tompkins Square Park.