Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980, Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams / Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street 1979-1980

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Notes

1 Although Abrams notes that McGinley’s photographs ‘preceded gentrification’ (Abrams 2017a, 20), one source reported that gentrification of the East Village began as far back as the early 1980s, almost 20 years before McGinley’s photographs were taken (The New York Times, 2 September 1984).