DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Thursday, July 28, 6:30 pm
Food Markets and Immigrant Identity in New York City

From the Lower East Side’s legendary bialys to the papusas of Red Hook ball fields, the city’s diverse ethnic markets have long helped New Yorkers maintain ties to their homelands and define new identities. Explore the customs, places, and innovations that shape how New Yorkers buy and sell food—and find out where to buy the best Sri Lankan chilis, West African gari flour, and mithai sweets from Pakistan.

Left: Gabriele Stabile, Untitled, from the series Street Smart. Right: Thomas Holton, 8th Avenue Traffic, 2010. Images copyright the artists, courtesy Aperture Foundation.

Jonathan Deutsch and Annie S. Hauck-Lawson, coeditors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Columbia University Press, 2008), along with Jennifer Berg, director, Graduate Program in Food Studies, New York University, discuss how the buying, selling, and eating of food have helped to define what it means to be a New Yorker, past and present. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program.

Moveable Feast documents an innovative NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene initiative that provides underserved communities with access to fresh fruits and vegetables via hundreds of independently owned, mobile produce stands known as Green Carts. The exhibition features new photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Thomas Holton, Gabriele Stabile, Will Steacy, and Shen Wei. Moveable Feast is organized by MCNY in conjunction with Aperture Foundation, which commissioned the photographs on view with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the half-off MCNY member's price of $6 when you contact 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org. Just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street.