Jay Myself
"Art is trying to make others see what you see." For over 50 years, renowned New York photographer Jay Maisel lived in what became known as “The Bank”, a six-story, 36-000-square-foot building—and one-time bank—in Manhattan that he transformed into a living museum of things. He collected an monumental array of seemingly useless objects in the ultimate embodiment of “another man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Unable to afford the maintenance costs, Maisel sold the building in 2015 in the largest private real estate transaction in New York City history, but for five decades he created something extraordinary, commemorated here in this heartfelt tour through “The Bank” and the life of a one-of-a-kind artist.