Open AccessColab Again
Author(s) -
Francesco Spampinato
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
stedelijk studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2405-7177
DOI - 10.54533/stedstud.vol002.art02
Subject(s) - downtown , exhibition , square (algebra) , art gallery , estate , art , spring (device) , art history , history , visual arts , archaeology , law , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics
During the past few years, New York has seen the restaging of two groundbreaking underground art exhibitions, originally organized in 1980 by Lower East Side-based collective Colab: The Real Estate Show and The Times Square Show. The former, which took place illegally on New Year’s Eve in a vacant, city-owned building at 125 Delancey Street—and was shut down by the police after few hours—was restaged in Spring 2014 at four Downtown venues: James Fuentes Gallery, Cuchifritos, The Lodge Gallery, and ABC No Rio. The latter was organized in a disused Times Square massage parlor and restaged in Fall 2012 at Hunter College’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery.