The Bowery Gets Its Own Exhibition at the New Museum

The New Museum has mounted "The Bowery: Devil's Mile," an exhibition devoted to the street the institution itself calls home. Its subject is the Bowery's early life as the place where ordinary New Yorkers first went out for a night of amusement, long before Manhattan's better-known theater and nightlife districts took shape. ARTnews characterizes the presentation as a daring one that blends more than one kind of show into a single installation. For anyone who collects New York, or simply walks the Lower East Side, it is a chance to see a familiar address treated as a subject worth a museum's attention.

With reporting from ARTnews.