The Brooklyn Rail

Melissa Rachleff, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 – 1965

Packed with luxurious images, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 traces the movement of mid-century artists who, rather than cater to the city’s traditional artistic and financial procedures for gallery exhibition broke the mold of established creative practice by establishing their own group gallery spaces.