Mural Arts Month: Photo Exhibition Reception: The Border Is An Invitation

Mural Arts hosts an exhibition of renown photojournalist Martha Cooper's photographic preservation of graffiti and Steve Weinik's documentation of psychylustro by Katharina Grosse. psychylustro is an episodic painting of massive abstract fields of color installed along passages of the Northeast Rail Corridor between Philadelphia's 30th Street and North Philadelphia Stations, the same passages where Cooper documented graffiti before psychylustro was installed. Presented in cooperation with Amtrak, psychylustro has been supported by: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, National Endowment for the Arts, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Fierce Advocacy Fund, PTS Foundation, AT&T, Philadelphia Zoo, Joe and Jane Goldblum, David and Helen Pudlin, halfGenius, and The Beneficial Foundation with support for the exhibition publication from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Media Partners: WHYY's NewsWorks.org, Metro Newspaper.

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