HOMEPAGE FEATURE — News — Arches of Harlem

SIMUL: A Signature Piece for the Viaduct's 125th Street Arch

SIMUL, a signature art installation to be beneath under the Riverside Drive Viaduct at 125th Street, will play as a double metaphor. It’s connecting Harlem to the wider New York, as well as bringing local residents together under the bridge. SIMUL intertwines with the bridge, and at the center is the meeting point of the tubing system, which can be called the nucleus of the piece. The center could be described as an intermingling of tubes, which is meant to represent how, although the people are all different, the city is one interconnected community. Everyone who lives in the city, even short-time visitors, is a New Yorker.

The Harlem Renaissance - 100 Years of Art

The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. Harlem then was a cultural center and drew writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars of African descent to the area.