Managing partner Klaus Ortlieb designated the south-facing wall of The Cooper Square Hotel as a venue to showcase public art to celebrate the East Village and its emerging artists. Read more
Artist David Hammons offered snow balls for sale at this location in 1983, in front of the famously tuition-free Cooper Union as part of a performance he dubbed Blizzard Ball Sale.
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