The year 1985 took me in a new direction. After answering an ad in the New York Times, I was appointed curator at the Queens Museum. For most of my time at the museum, I still lived at 98 Bowery…
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The year 1985 took me in a new direction. After answering an ad in the New York Times, I was appointed curator at the Queens Museum. For most of my time at the museum, I still lived at 98 Bowery, waking early and driving my beat-up car the forty-five minutes out to Flushing Meadows Park, where the Queens Museum is located. As curator, I continued to work with many downtown artists, but little by little my interest expanded. I did exhibitions on the New York World’s Fairs and on the jazz musician Louis Armstrong, In 1989, I left my fifth-floor walk-up at 98 Bowery and moved to Brooklyn with my wife and newborn son. An unexpected epilogue to my Bowery story would come in 2016: an exhibition about the Ramones at the Queens Museum.
The year 1985 took me in a new direction. After answering an ad in the New York Times, I was appointed curator at the Queens Museum. For most of my time at the museum, I still lived at 98 Bowery…
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