Public Space In A Private Time
Storefront for Art & Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, New York, New York
Until December 17, 2022
On the evening of September 18, 1982, culture vultures, downtown hipsters, and the generally curious clumped together outside the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood. The pocket-size gallery at 51 Prince Street was too small to accommodate everyone who had turned up to see and hear the multimedia artist Arleen Schloss twiddle a synthesizer for half-an-hour. In a photograph depicting the happening, the sidewalk performer looks cool in leather, while an oneiric film still projected from within the gallery floats overhead. Onlookers keep a respectful
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