... Mudd Club Steve Mass downtown art scene punk disco ...

... Initially working in collaboration with Diego Cortez and Anya Phillips, Steve Mass opened the Mudd Club on White Street in the autumn of 1978. He sought to create a hangout for the downtown art crowd, punks, and miscellaneous others while ridiculing the ostentatiousness of the midtown...

...1980<subtitle>The Recalibration of Disco</subtitle> Initially working in collaboration with Diego Cortez and Anya Phillips, Steve Mass opened the Mudd Club on White Street in the autumn of 1978. He sought to create a hangout for the downtown art crowd, punks, and miscellaneous others while...

.... Steve Mass couldn’t straightforwardly ignore developments at Club 57. Beginning in the summer of 1980 he started to offer work to several core members. Around the same time Mass started to experience profound tensions with one of his principal DJs, Anita Sarko. Club 57 Ann Magnuson Keith Haring...

... Club 57 closed in early 1983 and Steve Mass wound down the Mudd Club soon after, but Danceteria and Pyramid maintained their frenzied schedules. Patti Astor and Bill Stelling opened the new year at the Fun Gallery with a Futura 2000 show, selling every piece but one before opening night...

...1983<subtitle>The Genesis of Division</subtitle> Club 57 closed in early 1983 and Steve Mass wound down the Mudd Club soon after, but Danceteria and Pyramid maintained their frenzied schedules. Patti Astor and Bill Stelling opened the new year at the Fun Gallery with a Futura 2000 show...

...Struggles for Control<subtitle>Memory Politics as Mass Experience, 1983-1988</subtitle> ...