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Identify 5 locations and write one sentence about each..

  1. Brooklyn: migration to New York began in the 1800s.
  2. Harlem: new arrivals were intellectuals, artists, writers, and activist who started the cultural movement Harlem Renaissance.
  3. South Bronx: Hip-Hop is born in this neighborhood and then spread to the rest of New York In the 70s. Rappers, DJs, and MCs served a big role.
  4. Wall Street/Financial District: this neighborhood provided jobs, revenue, and prestige to New York in 1980s.
  5. Midtown: corporations began erecting office building and making it the hub for commercial architecture.

Write one question about each of these places

  1. Brooklyn: Why did the Russians dominate Brighton Beach?
  2. Harlem: who were some of the major figures that influenced the Harlem Renaissance?
  3. South Bronx: who were the major artist that started hip-hop movement?
  4. Wall Street: what were the companies that made Wall Street a landmark for financial business?
  5. Midtown: Why did business choose to develop in this specific location? Why didn’t they just expand from Wall Street?

3 examples of the artistic, economic, social, political, environmental, census or cultural data

  1. Alice Neel painting of a Harlem neighbor.
  2. Keith Haring AIDS-supportive party flyer exhibited.
  3. The Tammany Society official documents signed and written in Hebrew.

Please indicate how the exhibition explores and relates the data to the audience. (What media is used? What primary sources/ artifacts are used? What language/ text is used?) Please take at least one photo of each of the three examples.

This exhibition relates to the audience in many different ways. Throughout the show they displayed artifacts such as clothes, documents, articles from magazines and newspapers, all from different time periods. They also displayed a document in Hebrew from the Tammany Society which I thought was interesting.

What is the most interesting part of the exhibition design for you? Why?

I enjoyed the the individual design of the window panels. The way each panel was organized was interesting to see, they were displayed in a manner that they panels didn’t explain everything but they made you curious enough to read about each artifact.

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