Brooklyn Museum: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Artist Statement

The following image best encapsulates what I feel to be the changing "face" of Brooklyn. As the influx of rich, white New Englanders and Floridians re-shapes the face of the borough with their sterile condos, fusion restaurants, hand-bag poodles, the ensuing ballooning of housing prices slowly erases all memories of the past alongside mass evictions of underpaid, unprivileged, and underrepresented communities. The irony of an art institution paying homage to such a changing face, which has helped to systematically destroy local arts communities and heterogeneous demographics in one fell swoop, has inspired me to submit my own changing “face”.

33 Comments

with his/her statement I am shocked it isn't a black ass. Who is really displacing whom? Who is the face of gentrification? Is it a black face or a white ass?

Hahahaha, heee-larious.

lame.

i have to say this really captures the attitude of what is going on around here. especially among the artist population. very nice.

A classic!

You know I think this is exactly what some Brooklynites would like to do so I digg this

Some would argue that the influx of so called artists have ruined Brooklyn. Any way it's a bad photo. If you had any balls you would have photographed the front!

Ewww....even though you are correct about much of what you say, I am quite grossed out about how you chose to say it.

This will probably be gentrified too!

Although I don't agree with the sentiment regarding museum's roll in destroying local art communities - it was here generations before the artist was - I think this image does justice to the spirit and expressiveness of us Brooklynites, and our general attitude with regard to the changing Brooklyn.

wanderfull

Too obviously staged.

Oh please.

pretty low brow

The image is not good enough to communicate an important feeling of the author.

this photo can say so many things, but what screams to me is "hey, you can kick the middle to lower class out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn's true energy away!

Oh dear. I'm not sure that I approve but I can't help but laugh. Certainly makes a point and does so with an insouciance that is generally lacking in images with a political subtext.

Spare me.

ok, we get it - he's cool and irreverent. I've seen better

Artist's name is "Tubby Lambergini"? Is the artist hesitant to own up to his/her image? — Posted by Amy

The image is one thing & the Artist statement is something completely differnt ! What 'hood are they from. The majority of influx is from Europe as well as Mexico and still the Islands. According to a MSNBC report from 3 years ago, "Mexico is the largest source of immigrants to the United States, followed by East Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Central America and South America". It is a strong image but in poor taste, crass. Gentrification has nothing to do with New England ! — Posted by Brien Foy

juvenile. — Posted by anonymous

LMAO!!!!!!! — Posted by anonymous

idk wat 2 say about this 1 — Posted by kafele clement

you have cellulite on the lower right cheek — Posted by Stephen Chen

Long live the 68'ers and their (useless) street drama. — Posted by Antoin V.

Doesn't really move me one way or the other. — Posted by Rob

So the photographer is saying that Brooklyn is full of feces?? Go figure. — Posted by anonymous

Disturbing — Posted by Seymour Hakling

What the... — Posted by io

thanks for shaving — Posted by anonymous

The keys and the tattoo are what make this photo so brooklynesque — Posted by Steve Berry

disgusting — Posted by sharon