The "Practicing Curation" class has offered "A Bootleg Exhibition of the Orozco Room" in a naturally lit basement room. They hung textile reproductions of the original murals - inaccessible during a long process of restoration - around a seating area to try to recreate the way the murals were part of social life at The New School in its first decades, at least until the yellow curtain era, described in an explanatory pamphlet.
It's quite successful in its bootleg way. The reproduced murals are even more immersive than the originals, which sit a little higher on the walls and are ventilated by windows on either side of the "Table of Universal Brotherhood." I wonder if it was also intentionally that the murals to left and right were inverted. I know two students in the class, will ask!
