In 2006, in conjunction with an exhibition at NYU’s Grey Gallery, Marvin Taylor, director of Fales Library & Special Collections, published an essay elucidating the concrete and conceptual relationship between the New York downtown scene and the Downtown Collection:
Marvin J. Taylor, “Playing the Field: The Downtown Scene and Cultural Production,” in Taylor, ed., The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, pp. 17–39. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Image credit: Jimmy DeSana and Stephen Varble performing Gutter Art, November 1975. Fales Library [Jimmy DeSana Papers]. Copyright Jimmy DeSana Trust, 2018.
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