This is an exhibition, mainly of photography, curated by photographer James Foehrenbach, recording the extraordinary events of September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. 2011 was a banner year for protest movements around the world, spurred by the subprime housing crisis in 2007, which led to the Great Recession of 2008. January protests in the Middle East ushered in the Arab Spring. In April, anti-Union legislation in Wisconsin galvanized the American Labor movement. And a call for protest by AdBusters magazine ushered in almost 75 days of direct action in Lower Manhattan with offshoots around the entire country, and thus was born the Occupy Wall Street movement. Zuccotti Park was popularly renamed Liberty Plaza and protesters occupied it to set up a base of operations to protest the avarice of Wall Street.
The exhibition runs through the month of September and the Gallery & Courtyard are usually open from 11am to 3pm Mon-Thurs and by private arrangement.
