I've yet to see the Biennial, but on my list for things to do in July. All of what you wrote about NYC is so funny because of how familiar it all is. I lived on St. Marks and Ave A, a few steps away from the park right after the riots when I was going to Cooper Union a few blocks up. And maybe you know this, but after 3 years transferred to a small school in Washington State the month that Nirvana played SNL, a college that was essentially their regular gig playing in the dorms. I've been writing a little about this period because I'm in such a nostalgic mode with my kids going off. Funny to see such a parallel experience here in some ways - or maybe it's typical of Gen X.
Oh, wild! And yeah, I do think we Gen-Xers were all stamped by Nirvana in one way or another, and anyone who spent time in NYC in that era (both my friends from Sarah Lawrence and a number of art & design folks I knew from high school who attended Cooper Union and Pratt) have a certain shared visceral memory of what it was like.
I've yet to see the Biennial, but on my list for things to do in July. All of what you wrote about NYC is so funny because of how familiar it all is. I lived on St. Marks and Ave A, a few steps away from the park right after the riots when I was going to Cooper Union a few blocks up. And maybe you know this, but after 3 years transferred to a small school in Washington State the month that Nirvana played SNL, a college that was essentially their regular gig playing in the dorms. I've been writing a little about this period because I'm in such a nostalgic mode with my kids going off. Funny to see such a parallel experience here in some ways - or maybe it's typical of Gen X.
Oh, wild! And yeah, I do think we Gen-Xers were all stamped by Nirvana in one way or another, and anyone who spent time in NYC in that era (both my friends from Sarah Lawrence and a number of art & design folks I knew from high school who attended Cooper Union and Pratt) have a certain shared visceral memory of what it was like.
And now of course, I wonder, if we know some mutual people if you know people who went to Cooper Union 🤔. Wouldn’t that be wild.