An urban-renewal construction site shaped the gallery that validated large-scale art

Evidence

The Park Place Gallery was located on the residential side of Houston Street. Overlooking the Valley, just west of the six blocks plowed under for the construction of NYU’s brutalist Silver Towers, the gallery anticipated what SoHo would become and how SoHo art would be displayed. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1014

Categorization

• XREF: The six blocks plowed for Silver Towers is a concrete instance of urban renewal destroying housing while enabling new art display — see reader’s thesis on the two-part Subcultures-to-Countercultures structure.