Downtown Arts Scene

The Downtown Arts Scene was an artistic community based in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Members of the Scene included Alvin Baltrop, Jackie Curtis, Jasper Johns, Trisha Brown and Philip Glass.

The Downtown arts scene used photocopying as a rapid way for artists to share and distribute images.

The Downtown Arts Scene is generally considered to have reached its end in the 1980s.

References

  1. 1 2 "Downtown Arts Scene". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  2. ↑ Schjeldahl, Peter (2017-02-03). "The Invention of the Downtown Art Scene". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  3. ↑ Searle, Adrian (2011-03-02). "Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  4. ↑ Eichhorn, Kate (2021-02-23). "How the Copy Machine Gave Rise to New York's Downtown Arts Scene". The MIT Press Reader. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  5. ↑ "The End of the Downtown Scene". The Gotham Center for New York City History. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-05.

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