Category Archives: 80s

CROSSING THE CHANNEL by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2012 – 1:24 am

I had moved away from Boston in 1971, but every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985, when n art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the […]

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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST by Peter Nolan

November 28, 2012 – 9:51 am

Punk died before Disco. The next alternative defender of rock and roll was the New Wave, which combined electronic and experimental music with a minimal beat. Bands such as The Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, and Echo and The Bunnymen achieved critical and financial success during the early 80s, however American New Wave acts were shut […]

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STELARC- E11th and Ave. B NYC 1985

October 26, 2012 – 6:55 pm

For the last two weeks I’ve been working at a high-level metal shop in Greenpoint with a friend from the East Village. Tim has been kind enough to employ me, even though I’m a threat to life and limb in a heavy machinery environment. Today was the final stage of my stint at Studio 40, […]

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LOS ANGELES by X

October 22, 2012 – 7:45 pm

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PC Is Back In NYC

October 13, 2012 – 9:36 am

Last month the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery on 57th Street brought back Richard Serrano’s controversial photo PISS CHRIST. The image of the cross bathed in the artist’s urine outraged Christians throughout the world. Twenty five years later the 1987 photo continues to act as a lighting rod for protest against the increasing secularization of the […]

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