Becky Howland, Real Estate Show, Flyer, 1980

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Xerox on paper, 8.5″ x 11″.

COLAB artists organized the “Real Estate Show” as a protest. Early in the morning of January 1, 1980, they broke into an unused city-owned building on Delancey Street and began installation. Though police shut down the exhibition almost immediately, subsequent negotiations between the artists and the city led to the establishment of ABC No Rio as a public art space in the Lower East Side.

James Fuentes Gallery’s 2014 commemoration of the “Real Estate Show” illuminated the short-lived action’s continued legacy.

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Becky Howland Collaborative Projects Inc (COLAB) Flyers Political Real Estate Show Xerox and Photocopies

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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.