They Made New York! Props to KOOL Herc featured in Time Magazine!

On July 14, 2015, T magazine assembled some of the artists, writers, performers, musicians and intellectuals who defined New York’s inimitable and electrifying cultural scene of the late 1970s and early ’80s. There were longtime friends (and some rivals) in the group, but overall, the mood was one of celebration. And why not? Every generation thinks it’s uniquely special, but this generation really is: These are the people who came to, and stayed in, New York when it was at its worst, and in so doing, created what was arguably the most important multidisciplinary artistic movement that the city has ever seen.
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Related CoveragThe photographs in this story are by the late Peter Hujar (1934-87), one of the key figures in New York’s downtown art scene. Here,
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But while this historic gathering was notable for its presences, it was equally so for its absences: a whole group of people (the artists David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Tseng Kwong Chi and Felix Gonzalez-Torres among them) who were lost to AIDS. Those who remain are survivors — of a plague, of time and, most of all, of the wonders and the ravages of the era.
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