New York’s art scene in the 1970s. Louise Bourgeois, Dan Flavin, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, ...

In 1969, Stefano Ripamonti was feeling good about life. He was in his late twenties, working a glamorous job at an Italian high fashion shoe firm. He’d recently married his childhood sweetheart and ...

For a vivid trip to the LGBTQ past, forget quantum physics or flux capacitors — a growing Facebook group, Gay New York 1970s and 80s, serves as a virtual online time machine, guiding its tens of ...

Lou Reed was famously hard to please when it came to music, but he found a deep appreciation for the punk pioneers The ...

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...

In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever. Pace McGill and Paul Kasmin ...

The #J20 Art Strike resonates with the approach of the 1970 New York Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War, also commonly referred to as the Art Strike. The Art Strike on the ...

Do you know the famous Orson Welles’ speech from the 1949 classic The Third Man? Harry Lime, the smoothest sociopath ever captured on film, explains his theory of ...

Journal Editorial Report: Congress may demand changes in California. Photo: Allison Dinner/Shutterstock The battle to contain the recent wildfires in Los Angeles calls to mind New York City’s fiscal ...

Robert Precht, now in his 70s, shared this photo of the 1982 NYC Pride March to the the Gay New York 1970s and 80s Facebook page in June. When he took this photo, Precht wrote on his post, he was a ...