The New York Housing Law That Helped Sustain Artists

Any New Yorker who steps into Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow will likely look with a lascivious gaze upon the few remaining protected artist lofts.
Alexis Clements, Hyperallergic, 17 Jun 2024

Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, curated by James Cavello, is reviewed in Hyperallergic by Alexis Clements.

 

"This show also raises questions about what it would mean to engage in new kinds of advocacy today, particularly for live/work spaces that alleviate the need for artists (and others who need it) to constantly chase affordable housing and studio or work space. At a time when thousands of offices sit vacant in the city, what would it mean to shift many of those to live/work spaces? Like the original Soho lofts, this has the double advantage of creating new housing without pushing existing residents out since these weren’t residential buildings to begin with."
- Alexis Clements

 

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing for Hyperallergic, her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Bitch Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, Nature, and Two Serious Ladies, among others.

 

Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow, curated by James Cavello, is on view May 16 - July 13, 2024.