The Bronx

===Arts===
The [[Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance]], founded in 1998 by [[Arthur Aviles]] and Charles Rice-Gonzalez, provides dance, theatre and art workshops, festivals and performances focusing on contemporary and modern art in relation to race, gender and sexuality. It is home to the Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre, a contemporary dance company, and the Bronx Dance Coalition. The academy was formerly in the [[American Bank Note Company Building]] before relocating to a venue on the grounds of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baadbronx.org/about.html|title=About|website=BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-date=August 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827043233/http://www.baadbronx.org/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Bronx Museum of the Arts]], founded in 1971, exhibits 20th century and contemporary art through its central museum space and {{convert|11000|sqft|m2|-2}} of galleries. Many of its exhibitions are on themes of special interest to the Bronx. Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media. The museum was temporarily closed in 2006 while it underwent an expansion designed by the architectural firm [[Arquitectonica]] that would double the museum's size to {{convert|33000|sqft}}.<ref>[https://www.archpaper.com/2006/10/new-and-improved-bronx-museum/ "New and Improved Bronx Museum"], ''[[The Architect's Newspaper]]'', October 20, 2006. Accessed May 14, 2021. "One of the first and most notable additions is a $19 million expansion of the Bronx Museum of Art, designed by Bernardo Fort-Brescia and his firm Arquitectonica. Rising three towering stories above the busy street, the northern wing of the museum is the first phase of a project that will literally unfold to the corner, eventually replacing the squat former-synagogue the museum has occupied since 1982. It adds 16,700 square feet to an existing 33,000."</ref>

The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute in the form of the "[[Heinrich Heine]] Memorial", better known as the [[Lorelei Fountain]]. After Heine's German birthplace of [[Düsseldorf]] had rejected, allegedly for [[antisemitic]] motives, a centennial monument to the radical [[German-Jewish]] poet (1797–1856), his incensed [[German-American]] admirers, including [[Carl Schurz]], started a movement to place one instead in [[Midtown Manhattan]], at [[Fifth Avenue]] and 59th Street. However, this intention was thwarted by a combination of ethnic antagonism, aesthetic controversy and political struggles over the institutional control of public art.<ref name="GrayNYT2007">Christopher Gray, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/realestate/27scap.html "Sturm und Drang Over a Memorial to Heinrich Heine"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 27, 2007, retrieved on July 3, 2008.. See also [http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/publicart/J_kilmer_pk.htm Public Art in the Bronx: Joyce Kilmer Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306134446/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/realestate/27scap.html |date=March 6, 2014 }}, from [[Lehman College]] {{Cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/realestate/27scap.html |title=Sturm und Drang over a Memorial to Heinrich Heine |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 27, 2007 |access-date=November 26, 2007 |archive-date=March 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306134446/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/realestate/27scap.html |url-status=bot: unknown |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher }}</ref> In 1899, the memorial by [[Ernst Gustav Herter]] was placed in [[Joyce Kilmer Park]], near the [[Yankee Stadium]]. In 1999, it was moved to 161st Street and the Concourse.