Artifacts: ABC No Rio, Founders' Era
Item
half-size zine
Identifier:
IA.ITM.000679-->
Description
Artifacts gives a backdrop as to the city's--and that specific neighborhood's--real estate and housing politics in the late 1970s, leading up to New Year's DAy 1980, when a group of artists broke into an abandoned building to stage The Real Estate Show, an exhibition protesting the skyrocketing rents while so many buildings remained warehoused.
The City padlocked the show after one day, confiscated and even damaged some of the art. The artists made a big to-do about this and the City, very embarassed by all the bad press, agreed to let them rent a storefront and basement for $242 a month to do whatever weird socially-conscious art that they wanted to do.
Thus, ABC No Rio was born.
Related people
Vikki Law (artist)Cookie Puss (artist)