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One more reason I miss NYC: The Issue Project Room and their upcoming discussion on No Wave and the convergence of art, music, and cinema in NYC in the late 70s-early 80s. Thurston Moore will speak. Ut will play. Rome '78 will screen. I wish I had some ruby slippers that got me to these kinds of galleries on a whim. Go Brooklyn. Good job.
I've long felt this period in art history (especially for NYC) has been overlooked. It keeps elements of the popart movement before it, but reacts in bolder yet dingier tones to the blight affecting downtown during these times. I recently talked in more detail regarding this very important era via a review on the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary Radiant Child. You can read it here. Basquiat, Haring, Sonic Youth, Robert Mapplethorpe, these are but a few bright lights from that period. With so many artists of the time lost to drugs or AIDS, it's important to recognize The Issue's big brains and thank them for bringing some people who still remain from this lost era of culture back to New York to show us why and how it was groundbreaking.
