Battle of Tomkins Square Park [Poster]
Item
11 x 8 1/2"
Identifier:
IA.ITM.000268
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Description
commemorating the events in Tomkins Square Park in August 1988, police brutality against protesters, protests against gentrification;two riot police stencils (different sizes) reused in 1991: "A reaction to the heavy handed police response to the neighborhood homeless";one homeless stencil; also used in a stencil animation with bible text at Times Square in 1987 shown on Christmas 1987 every 20 minutes on the Spectacolor Lightboard Project through Public Art Fund; also used during Housing Protest March, Houston Street, 1995, N.Y.C.;signed by the artist