.... His rich body of work is marked by its intimate subjective perspectives and its elegant, distilled expression. In 2004, Mitre published his volume of poems The Manhattan Umbrella, a tribute to the spaces and people of New York City. As the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina put it, the book captures...

... of work is marked by its intimate subjective perspectives and its elegant, distilled expression. In 2004, Mitre published his volume of poems The Manhattan Umbrella, a tribute to the spaces and people of New York City. As the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina put it, the book captures “that strange...

... This chapter moves from public eating to home cooking as a strand intertwined with screen practices. From Hitchcock’s inaugural visit to the United States, it follows the trajectory of the reception as he negotiated contract options parallel to stuffing himself in Manhattan while spinning...

... The opening months of 1981 witnessed an intensification of the conversation that had begun to take place between downtown artists, new wave musicians, and graffiti writers. Diego Cortez curated the New York/New Wave exhibition at PS1. Keith Haring curated the Lower Manhattan Drawing Show...

... Real estate threatens artists in downtown Manhattan. Fielding Dawson dies. Bush and madmen blundering everywhere. Hettie is denied entry into Bedford Hills Prison, escorted by security out to parking lot, letter comes: “Your ID will be destroyed . . .” Paranoia everywhere, even Gloucester...

... York/New Wave exhibition at PS1. Keith Haring curated the Lower Manhattan Drawing Show at the Mudd Club. Haring then invited Brathwaite and Futura 2000 to curate a Beyond Words graffiti show at the Mudd Club; Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa played at the opening-night party. Meanwhile Basquiat quit Gray...