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40 Top Art Events of the Downtown Era: A Timeline, 1974–1992

The Downtown Era began in the 1970s, when aspiring artists of the baby-boomer generation arrived in New York. Over the next two decades, they would radically change the art world, opening it up to new forms of media, new modes of exhibiting art, and new social perspectives.

Tehching (Sam) Hsieh, One Year Performance, Poster, New City Court Park, 1982

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Offset print on paper, 11″ x 17″.

For the third of Hsieh’s five consecutive “one-year performances,” the artist avoided going inside any sheltering structures for a whole year. Gallery 98 has a number of posters from Tehching Hsieh’s one-year performances.