The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Lenfest Center of the Arts — Attraction in New York

This incredibly ugly series of new buildings for Columbia's new Manhattanville campus remove the soul from architecture, synthesise functionality over humanity. Devoid of any interior human links, decoration or even an attempt to link to the neighborhood architecturally, they boldly announce to Harlem Columbia's elitist attempt to stay the fortress they intend to be. The black box theaters inside the Lenfest Center are completely unsuitable for elderly people and are amazingly not ADA compliant. I had to help two seniors yo their seats down very steep stairs. In this day and age this should never have happened and Columbia should have made some attempt to recycle the architecture and the fabric of the old buildings they razed, not make a statement about their incredible lack of taste and...

At the Hudson River show one of the docents, a guy with long straggly hair was highly annoying when he yelled my friend to step away from the art, note my friend was well behind the taped line. The dirty docent then said my friend was leaning over the line. Hint, he was taking photos of the art. The other docent was a sweet lady who did not know the history regarding the seminal importance of the abandoned piers towards the westway case in Federal court, so when I pointed that out and all the preservationist history to produce our modern vistas, she was a joy to converse with. Often these students don't know as much as they think, but some are really hungry to learn. I was lucky to meet the second one because the first would ruin any museum...

This is gallery is doing very cutting edge art when it allows African Americans to make vital statements of historical moments in time. It's uncovering thought provoking and soul stirring moments, which erupts ones basic thoughts and meager opinions and or the lack of. Education comes in many forms and it's very definitive existence is and has been buried in African and African American Art. This art in any form, is an integral key to all learning. This just simply means, to inform, to share, to teach the truth, which is heart engaging and freedom for all learn and to be. Congratulations on your current exhibition it's beautiful and magnificently...