Photography
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BUILDING BELIEF
Photographs by Larry Racioppo on view in “Architecture of Devotion” depict local Roman Catholic sites of worship. The exhibit focuses on New York’s Italian-American community over the past 100 years. Above is a 2000 interior shot of 82-year-old Joseph Pezza’s parking attendant’s shed in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Along with Mr. Pezza’s constantly growing collection of artifacts, neighborhood residents have donated objects such as a bloodstained cloth glove of Saint Padre Pio. At right is a 2004 photograph of the Lisanti Family Chapel on East 215th Street in the Bronx’s Williamsbridge neighborhood. The private chapel was commissioned in 1905 by Francesco Lisanti, an immigrant baker. Mr. Racioppo also photographed a Staten Island grotto, Williamsburg’s annual giglio feast, and a Bronx replica of Rome’s Scala Sancta. Through Friday, May 20, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Italian American Museum, 28 W. 44th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 17th floor, 212-642-2020, free.
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