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NY Art Scene: East Village to LES: from Makeshift to Fine Art Gallery
The emerging East Village art scene of the 1980s invented new forms of cultural and economic linkages between the avant garde and urban space. For many the East Village art scene was “about making an ‘art movement’ seem more real by anchoring it to a concrete physical area.” The first galleries were makeshift exhibition spaces started by artists or their friends in apartments and eventually in storefronts. This rapid growth and decline may be accounted for by the international wave of art speculation and investment that was fueled largely by the profits from the finance and producer services growth sector. The increasing national and international media spotlight on East Village…
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Fine Art Gallery to open 45 Orchard St, NY
The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin