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East Village Art: Scene or Circumstance?

East Village Art: Scene or Circumstance?

September 18, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue
Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street
New York City, NY 10003 + Google Map

September 18th / 7 PM / Free

A Panel Discussion with Leonard Abrams, Yasmin Ramirez, Sur Rodney (Sur), Arthur Fournier, and Anthony Haden-Guest

Expanding upon the East Village Eye Show, key figures from the period discuss the times and the neighborhood that changed the culture forever.

Leonard Abrams, Moderator
Leonard Abrams acted as editor and publisher of the East Village Eye during the entirety of its run from 1979 through 1987. He then co-founded the multiracial hip hop clubs The Milky Way and Hotel Amazon in New York during 1987 and 1988, and has served as music editor of Details magazine, U.S. editor of Soul Underground magazine in London, as well as Masthead literary magazine in Melbourne. His first feature documentary film, Quilombo Country, was released in 2006 and he is working on his second documentary, concurrently with his work on the preservation and dissemination of materials related to the East Village Eye archive, from which the materials for The East Village Eye Show are largely drawn.

Panelists

Yasmin Ramirez
Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D. is an art historian and independent curator. Ramirez has worked at Taller Boricua, El Museo Del Barrio, The Studio Museum, The New Museum, Art in General, the Alternative Museum, Franklin Furnace and the East Village Eye. While at the Eye, she was instrumental in exposing the talents of young graffiti art pioneers to the recognized art world and beyond.

Sur Rodney (Sur)
Sur Rodney (Sur) is a writer, archivist, curator, artistic collaborator and former co-director of Gracie Mansion Gallery who left his position in 1988 to pursue ever-pressing concerns with archiving and records management of artists with HIV/AIDS. He served on the board of Visual AIDS for over a decade, where he helped establish the Frank Moore Archive Project of Visual AIDS to assist artists with HIV/AIDS, their estates, curators and scholars.

Arthur Fournier
Arthur Fournier is an archivist and independent rare book dealer based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked as a consultant on the placement of major archives and collections with tier-one research institutions including The New York Public Library, Stanford University, and Cornell, and has a particular interest in convergences of the avant-garde, popular and fine arts.

Anthony Haden-Guest
Anthony Haden-Guest, a writer, reporter, cartoonist and curator, has published in leading magazines in Britain and America, including Vanity Fair, Esquire and GQ, and increasingly online at Artnet and The Daily Beast. His most recent books are True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World (Grove Atlantic) and The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night (William Morrow and Company). Among the shows he curated last year was “The Last Party” The Influence of New York’s Club Culture: Mid ’70s – Early ’90s at WhiteBox Artspace in New York.

Image: Painting by Richard Hambleton
Design by Mark Michaelson
Photos by Juanita Rainey

 

 

 

 

 

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