Art on the Block: Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond
“Ann Fensterstock’s diligently researched Art on the Block is a must-read for anyone involved or even marginally interested in the New York art world." —Whitehot Magazine“Neighborhood loyalties, artists’ sense of community, political and legal considerations, gentrification, and the broader social, civic and economic milieu all play a part." —Kirkus Reviews“A highly readable introduction to the New York art world." — Publishers Weekly“Art on the Block follows an adventurous migration of artists and their galleries from one lower Manhattan neighborhood to another and across the East River to Brooklyn, one step behind drug dealers and the police and one step ahead of lifestyle magazines and real estate developers.  Fensterstock shows how gallery owners promote art--and themselves--and in the process, help to make the neighborhoods they inhabit more popular and desirable. But these changes ultimately make areas more expensive, killing the creative process.”—Sharon Zukin, author, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places"Ann Fensterstock has packed her up-to-the minute text with interesting art world facts, from mini-profiles of pioneering gallerists to the current burgeoning Bushwick scene. A comprehensive New York art-scene primer that will also appeal to cognoscenti." —Phoebe Hoban, author of Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art"Significant art history in the making. Tracking the energy of New York's contemporary art world that may flag but never vanishes, the book provides an impressive windshield tour through more than half a century of the artists, dealers, entrepreneurs and real estate challenges of the contemporary art world." — Alexandra Anderson Spivy, writer, critic and former editor in chief of Art & Antiques