From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire Art News editor Brian Harrod: YONKERS ART NEWS: The Hudson River Museum's New Exhibit Features U.S.-Mexico Border Issues.

 

From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire Art News editor Brian Harrod..... YONKERS ART NEWS: The Hudson River Museum's New Exhibit Features U.S.-Mexico Border Issues AN OUT OF TOWN PACKAGE: The show was organized by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas in 2017. It has traveled to a number of museums, THE LOCAL STORY IS UNTOLD: Issues for and against migration resonates deeply in Yonkers, but these stories from Yonkers' largest community of color are ignored by the out of touch curators at the Hudson River Museum. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Sadly, the Hudson River Museum chooses pre-packaged exhibits instead of doing the hard creative work getting local artists to seek out and exhibit the most heartbreaking stories of migrant children and their families right here in the city of hills. These local migrant stories go undocumented by the handful of taxpayer funded art insiders that have allowed the local Yonkers art scene to be diminished over the last seven years or so. Tears flow on New Main Street in Yonkers as the Hudson River Museum,Director Masha Turchinsky buys a traveling canned four year old exhibit from Bentonville, Arkansas is bought by If you go the exhibit it runs for the next two months at the Hudson River Museum at 511 Warburton Avenue. https://www.facebook.com/groups/YonkersNewswire/permalink/2906923239565235/