Vietnam veterans draw their war experiences. Feelings connected with killing, watching friends die, off-base diversions and returning home after the war are revealed in these "projective drawings" collected by Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller in 1981.
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Telephone Answering Machine Messages, 1982 – 1987. Individually each message is a record of a specific person and moment. Together they form something more -- a sound portrait of my life in the 1980's composed of the voices of the people who were in it.
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Marc H. Miller's East Village Eye column spotlighted with images and humor the excesses of the East Village art scene. Who's the fastest artist... Keith Haring, Sri Chimoy or Morris Katz? On view in New York: the Prinzhorn Collection of certifiably crazy artists. Get your picture with the world's most expensive painting at Sotheby's Auction House.
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ART/new york, a Video Magazine on Art. The early history of an innovative video series that featured contemporary art exhibitions in New York and artist interviews. Account covers the years 1981-1985.
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ART/new york, a Video Magazine on Art. The early history of an innovative video series that featured contemporary art exhibitions in New York and artist interviews. Account covers the years 1981-1985.
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ART/new york, a Video Magazine on Art. A segment on John Ahearn's "We Are Family" in the South Bronx from New Public Art (1983) and segments from "Graffiti/Post Graffiti" (1984) featuring Lady Pink and Fab 5 Freddy.
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ART/new york, a Video Magazine on Art. A segment on Jean Michel Basquiat at the Fun Gallery from "Young Expressionists" (1982/1983). Interview with Basquiat from "Graffiti/Post Graffiti" (1984).
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The online version of the 1985 book ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of A Lower East Side Art Gallery, a much cited source about the New York art scene of the 1980s.
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An introduction to the story of ABC No Rio an artist run gallery on the Lower East Side that found inspiration in its Hispanic neighborhood, the politics of the 1980s, and in the emerging East Village music and art scene.
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An introduction to the story of ABC No Rio an artist run gallery on the Lower East Side that found inspiration in its Hispanic neighborhood, the politics of the 1980s, and in the emerging East Village music and art scene.
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Many of the artist connected with ABC No Rio were affiliated with Collaborative Project Inc. (Colab), a loosely organized artist group with innovative ideas about what art should be and how it should be exhibited and distributed.
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Like the South Bronx art space Fashion/Moda, ABC No Rio was located in an urban slum. Artists connected to the gallery were committed to an interactive art reflecting political concerns. In this respect ABC No Rio paralleled other artist groups like Group Material and PADD.
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ABC No Rio was located in the Lower East Side, a famous slum that in 1980 was on the brink of gentrification. The gallery found inspiration in both its Hispanic neighborhood and in the emerging East Village music and art scene.
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Real Estate Show, 125 Delancey Street, 1980, Lehmann Weichselbaum, Alan Moore, Becky Howland, Peter Moennig, Colen Fitzgibbon, Andy Baird, Mike Glier, Peggy Katz, Scott Miller, Edit deAk, Jane Dickson, Cara Perlman, Joseph Beuys, Ann Messner, cops, police, manifesto, eviction, artists, landlords
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From its inception in 1980, ABC No Rio attracted a degree of attention that greatly exceeded what one might expect of a dilapidated, cash-strapped, off-the-beaten track, artist-run gallery.
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ABC No Rio had almost nothing to offer artists, not even "clean white walls," but at a time when there were few other options, many artists were happy to have access even to a raw, dilapidated space.
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The art world in the 1980s witnessed a revival of painting and sculpture of which ABC No Rio proved to be an early indicator. Exhibitions at the gallery included young, up-and-coming artists like Kiki Smith.
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Many of the artists who showed at ABC No Rio had a political agenda and wanted to promote the improvement of social conditions with their art. Artists worked with children from local schools and created themed shows around political issues.
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