Bowery Artist Tribute Vol. 2 / Editor: Ethan Swan

From 2007 to 2016, the New Museum developed and presented the Bowery Artist Tribute, a multifaceted celebration and exploration of the New Museum’s new neighborhood coinciding its move to the Bowery in 2007. The Bowery Artist Tribute documented the presence of artists on this famed thoroughfare through a series of oral histories, online resources, exhibitions, public programs and publications. Focused on researching the history of artists and art production on the Bowery, the project presented a dynamic art history of the area.

Central to the Bowery Artist Tribute were ongoing efforts to record oral histories of artists who lived and worked along the Bowery and its outskirts. The project featured interviews with Sol Lewitt’s wife Carol LeWitt; poets Hettie Jones and Bob Holman; art historian Kellie Jones; and artists Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, David Diao, Inka Essenhigh, Charles Hinman, James Rosenquist, and Billy Sullivan.

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