We’re really happy to have found our natural home in New York City: the funky neighborhood of Long Island City, just one subway stop across the Hudson from Grand Central.
Long Island City is, we’re told, the largest concentration of working artists in the United States. Allegravita has a long history of support for the contemporary arts community in China (our chief exec Simon was instrumental in a stealth program to save Beijing’s iconic 798 arts district from the wrecker’s ball, back in the early part of this decade — the story hasn’t yet been written from the inside, but hit Simon up for the telling if you’re interested). Suffice to say that the Allegravita’s are very comfortable in and around contemporary arts communities, so New York City’s locus of the arts, LIC, is our perfect home base in the US.
We’re only a stone’s throw from Court Square and Queensboro Plaza MTA stations, so next time you’re visiting MoMA’s excellent PS1 art museum, or our own emerging arts community Reis Studios, consider dropping in for a decent cup of coffee and a gander at what we’re working on!
(Allegravita has re-branded as Allegravita)
