NEW YORK (AP) — No Longer Empty is a nonprofit arts group that installs exhibitions in empty and underutilized spaces throughout New York City. But it does more than transform empty storefronts into temporary exhibition space. All its projects relate to the building’s history and its neighborhood.
The group also involves community participation and discussion months before an exhibition is launched.
It got its start in 2009 with a show about the financial crisis in a former fish-and-tackle store in Chelsea. Since then, other locations have included the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse that’s been abandoned for 37 years.
In most cases No Longer Empty researches and finds the space. But sometimes it’s invited to produce an installation. Currently, there’s an exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation that reflects the foundation’s focus on social and economic justice
