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Chinatown Students' Artwork Displayed at Chelsea Gallery Starting Friday

By DNAinfo Staff on June 10, 2010 6:53pm  | Updated on June 10, 2010 6:52pm

Buddhist art by a P.S. 126 student will be on display in Chelsea.
Buddhist art by a P.S. 126 student will be on display in Chelsea.
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A Chelsea gallery will present the artwork of more than 50 students from a Chinatown public school. The collaborative exhibition, called "13," will launch at art gallery Lombard-Freid Projects at 531 W. 26th St. Friday. The mix of art includes graffiti skateboards, 1920’s avant-garde film posters and Buddhist prayer art on Friday. All of the pieces of art were part of students’ work at Manhattan Academy of Technology at P.S. 126 in Chinatown. Artist Dread Scott, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will host the launch.

WHAT: Art exhibition of works by P.S. 126 students

WHERE: Lombard-Freid Projects at 531 W. 26th St.

WHEN: Friday night starting at 6:30 p.m. through Saturday

CONTACT: (212) 967-8040