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LANDMARK EXHIBITION EXAMINES TRANSFORMATIVE ERA
IN NEW YORK CITY ART SCENE

Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965
On view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
January 10–April 1, 2017

What happens when artists organize their own exhibitions? This is one of the key questions posed by Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, a major exhibition that examines the New York art scene during the fertile years between the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism. This is the first show ever to survey this vital period from the …