Downtown Arts Scene

The Downtown Arts Scene was an artistic community based in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Members of the Scene included Alvin Baltrop, Jackie Curtis, Jasper Johns, Trisha Brown and Philip Glass.

The Downtown arts scene used photocopying as a rapid way for artists to share and distribute images.

The Downtown Arts Scene is generally considered to have reached its end in the 1980s.

References

Further reading

McLeod, Kembrew (2018). The downtown pop underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture.

External links

Downtown Collection at the New York University (NYU) Special Collections