(PLEASE LIST through 7/13/2022) EXHIBITION CURATORS TALK–“STREETS IN PLAY: KATRINA THOMAS, NYC SUMMER 1968”

Sue Donoghue  Commissioner, NYC Parks  www.nyc.gov/parks

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PLEASE  LIST through  July 13, 2022  IMMEDIATE

 

EXHIBITION CURATORS TALK–"STREETS IN PLAY: KATRINA THOMAS, NYC SUMMER 1968"  

 

DATES:                      July 13, 2022 

 

TIME:                          6 p.m. 

 

LOCATION:               The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park 

Fifth Ave. & 64th St., 3rd Floor 

MANHATTAN 

 

DETAILS:                   Join "Streets In Play: Katrina Thomas, NYC Summer 1968" curators Rebekah Burgess and Mariana Mogilevich for a free talk and walk through NYC Parks' new exhibition, on view this summer at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park. 

 

Curated from the NYC Parks photo archive collection, the show features more than 40 dynamic photographs by the late artist Katrina Thomas, who documented car-free streets and children engaged in inventive and self-directed forms of summer play in the summer of 1968.  

 

The event is free but registration is required. To RSVP, please email artandantiquities@parks.nyc.gov. Mask-wearing is required to enter the Arsenal Gallery, and guests are required to sign in. 

 

"Streets In Play: Katrina Thomas, NYC Summer 1968" will be on view through September 2, 2022. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., and admission is free. For more information, visit nyc.gov/parks/art.  

 

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Contact: 

Megan Moriarty 

pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov 

212-360-1311 

 

Image credit: Katrina Thomas. Lower East Side, Playstreets, 1968. NYC Parks Photo Archive.