New York Magazine

14. See Beverly Buchanan

The artist’s “shack” works.

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Andrew Edlin Gallery, 212 Bowery, through May 8.

Before she died at 75, in 2015, Beverly Buchman fashioned a private city from cardboard and found wood, painted in beautiful colors. The structures are those of Jim Crow: old shotgun shacks, tobacco barns, tumbledown homes—places that people cobbled together out of what was at hand, having found ways to not only survive but create a vernacular architectu­re.

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