Arriving in New York from Los Angeles, Buffalo and beyond, several loosely affiliated cohorts met and mingled with artists native to the city, traded ideas, shared allegiances and became a "generati…
In 1977, Douglas Crimp, then a grad student at the City University of New York, organized a group exhibition called “Pictures” at the small downtown New York alternative gallery Artists Space…
With Douglas Crimp’s memoir, Before Pictures, having recently been released, below is a short history of his legendary show “Pictures,” held first at Artists Space in New York in 1977. The show…