Timescapes Watch the history of New York City unfold in this 28-minute film.
About This Event
Live event at MCNY Exhibitions
About Activist New York
At MCNY Exhibitions, *Activist New York* traces how New Yorkers have organized, protested, and negotiated power across the city’s modern history. The show brings together objects, photographs, and printed material that place everyday activism alongside the institutions it challenged. Its cultural significance is local and specific, treating the city not as backdrop but as an engine that shapes political action. One clear takeaway is how often change here begins in small networks before it reaches the streets and the record.
About the Artist
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh was an American realist painter and printmaker whose career was closely tied to New York City. He returned again and again to the city’s public theater of beaches, burlesque and vaudeville stages, and the streets of the Bowery, building scenes from careful observation and drawing.