"The Bowery: Devil’s Mile" traces five centuries of New York’s oldest street through artworks and artifacts: a Lenape footpath, pleasure gardens, dime museums and theaters, the world’s most notorious skid row, and later a hub for artists. Figures from Peter Stuyvesant and P.T. Barnum to Eva Hesse and Keith Haring pass through a portrait of the street as a place of constant reinvention.
