Robert Longo, Tenth Anniversary Benefit for the Kitchen, Paula Cooper Gallery, Card, 1981

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Paula Cooper Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Benefit for the Kitchen, Card, 1981.  Size: 4 x 6 inches.

This invitation for a benefit exhibition features a drawing by Robert Longo from his “Men in the Cities” series.  Longo is one of the prominent names of the Pictures Generation, a loose grouping of artists interested in mass media who often found new meanings by isolating and re-contextualizing images.  The Kitchen founded in Soho in 1971 was a pioneering venue for performance art.

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DOWNTOWN ERA EXHIBITION HOMEPAGE

Downtown Galleries Gallery Exhibition Cards Kitchen Paula Cooper Gallery Performance Art Venues Pictures Generation Robert Longo Soho/Tribeca Galleries

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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.