Side, a neighborhood that is rapidly gentrifying, to the detriment of practically everybody except the new arrivals. This is a fascinating part of town, with young, ardent grass-roots political , activists, resident artists, aplenty, land clusters of storefront galleries, some old, some brand new. Farther north, in the East Village, Tribes Gallery as a small selection of photographs by the German artist Ute Schendel, all taken in China.
Bicycle wheels pass in close-up.
A man rolls a tire down a street. A single small building in Beijing is seen in 10 slightly different versions at night. Housed in a second floor walkup apartment, with the front room cleared as a gallery space, it has poetry readings, jazz performances and community meetings, and it periodically publishes the magazine Gathering of the Tribes, the latest issue of which is just out. A discrete permanent installation by the artist David Hammons is in place over a couch in the reception area, where Mr. Cannon often sits.