Reviews

The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 by RoseLee Goldberg, Marvin J. Taylor, Lynn Gumpert, Carlo McCormick, Robert Siegle, Brian Wallis, Bernard Gendron, Matthew Yokobosky

brezaja's review against another edition

4.0

I can never get enough of the glimpse of the Downtown scene in the late 70s and early 80s. As dangerous, chaotic, and unpredictable the world below 14th street was, something about it will always remain intriguing to me. Just the thought of hundreds of people coming together and becoming the art world in spite of the “real” art world rejecting them and their ideas. I would have loved to at least had a glimpse of what life was like during this time.