Chinatown Soup
51 Canal Street | also 16A Orchard Street, 16 Orchard Street, 53 Canal Street | Chinatown | built 1941
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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 2014
Chinatown Soup begins at 16B Orchard Street as a gallery with a basement studio and cafe
Chinatown Soup dates itself to 2014 and occupies 16B Orchard Street. It combines a gallery, a basement studio for resident artists and a cafe. The studio takes its model from the Basement Workshop, the 1970s Chinatown collective of young planners and artists, and the cafe from FOOD, the SoHo project of Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark.
Source: chinatownsoup.nyc
- 2015
Michelle Esteva, Jordan Hill and Max Waldman run a soft opening of Chinatown Soup
In May 2015 Michelle Esteva, a graduate student at NYU and the nonprofit's director, Jordan Hill, who had worked at Sotheby's, and Max Waldman, an NYU senior, were hosting exhibitions at 16B Orchard Street as a soft opening. Their model was Detroit Soup and the Stone Soup folktale, and one early show, In Bloom, featured work by Cooper Union students. They said they wanted to preserve Chinatown's cultural fabric as the area changed.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
- 2015
Chinatown Soup schedules its official launch show, LAWLESS, with the Museum of Chinese in America
A May 11, 2015 article announced that Chinatown Soup would mark its official launch on May 15 with LAWLESS, a show made with the Museum of Chinese in America. The exhibit was to examine stereotypes of Chinatown through 1970s youth gangs and counterculture. Art by Boy Kong decorated the gate to the space.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
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