# Storefront for Art and Architecture

> 2 upcoming shows at Storefront for Art and Architecture in Downtown NYC, including “Public Address by Alex Strada”. Showtimes, tickets, and directions.

- Section: [NYC Art Galleries](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/index.html.md)
- Address: 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012 ([Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/TLTxTDpkhHogcM5Z6))
- Neighborhood: Downtown
- Web page: https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/storefront_for_art_and_architecture.html
- Markdown: https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/storefront_for_art_and_architecture.html.md
- Last updated: Nov 04, 2026 at 10:27 AM

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## Public Address by Alex Strada

- When: On view through Oct 03, 2027
- Run: Oct 18, 2025 – Oct 03, 2027
- Source: https://storefront.nyc/program/public-address-by-alex-strada/

New York City remains the only municipality in the United States to guarantee the right to shelter, a commitment established through decades of advocacy and litigation. Public Address, conceived by artist Alex Strada, is a citywide public artwork that centers the lived experience of those most impacted by housing insecurity. The project establishes a dialogue with New York City, affirming access to temporary shelter as a basic right while also exposing the limits of such provision in addressing deeper crises of affordability, displacement, and care.

## The Biography of a Building: Runik’s House of Culture by Hajde! Foundation and Petrit Halilaj with Ars Atelie

- When: On view through Dec 13
- Run: Sep 25 – Dec 13, 2026
- Source: https://storefront.nyc/program/the-biography-of-a-building-runiks-house-of-culture-by-petrit-halilaj-and-hajde-foundation-with-ars-atelie/

What does it take to bring a cultural space back into collective life? This question is at the heart of Hajde! Foundation’s work around the House of Culture in Runik, Kosovo. For years, the House of Culture was the social and cultural heart of the village, hosting theater performances, concerts, celebrations, public meetings, and everyday encounters. Like hundreds of Houses of Culture built across former Yugoslavia during the second half of the twentieth century, it was conceived as a civic space where culture and public life could unfold beyond the country’s major cities, becoming an important center of cultural life for Runik’s Albanian community. However, its activities were curtailed by the censorship and repression of the Milošević regime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the building was subsequently impacted by the violence of the Kosovo War. Bullet holes remain visible on its facade, while its interior gradually fell into ruin.