Whose Art Is It Analysis

New York City in the 1980’s was a populace that was already developed and getting even more populated with such a great amount of diversity. New York City is not all skyscrapers and business like what people think of when they watch television, there are five boroughs in NYC. The boroughs of NYC are Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and finally, Staten Island. Other than Manhattan, many of the other boroughs are mostly houses and apartment buildings as you would see in a regular neighborhood in America. Art is a Substantial piece of NYC history, and most of it is developed by New York’s citizens themselves, such art as graffiti and sculptures are commonly found in slums that were once congenial places in New York society. Just like some apportionments of the world, some places in New York are colonized with certain races of people for example, China town, and little Italy are the homes for many Chinese and Italians that migrated from their respected countries. But sometimes, there …show more content…
Author Jane Kramer wrote a journal on the situation called “Whose art is it”, Kramer did not take the side of Ahearn or the multicultural Bronx community. Kramer believed that Ahearn represented the city in an abominable way, and she felt that the city of NYC should have done a better job in controlling the situation and not just tear down the hard work and aspiration shown by a fellow New Yorker in John Ahearn. The city could have done a better job by handling the situation, Kramer states “The politicians like to call it "the multicultural dialogue." But the truth is that at this particularly angry moment in New York City, the multicultural dialogue is really a lot of strange and disheartening monologues (44). Kramer really did prove that in generality everyone had a hand in making the situation have a poor