Print After Party: Jason Eppink Dances on Old Media's Ruins

Abandoned by floundering media conglomerates, thousands of neglected newsracks command valuable real estate on busy street corners across New York City, remnants of diminishing demand and a disintegrating economy. Many have already been reclaimed and transformed by urban alchemists, whether as canvases for stickers and paint or clever conceptual works that turn the once important vessels of information into repositories for garbage.

A walk down the street—in Greenwich Village, for instance—shows that this approach is not working. Dirty, abandoned and refuse-filled newsracks are commonplace.