The Chelsea Art Museum hosts the first exhibition in New York of art from the Boris Lurie estate.
The show inaugurated a series of exhibitions devoted to the NO!Art Movement and its members and affiliates, as well as other long-neglected or suppressed humanist strains in the art of the latter half of the twentieth century. It brings together key works of the movement for the first time since the early 1960s when a group of artists presented exhibitions in a basement gallery on 10th Street called the March Gallery, and then uptown in another basement gallery called the Gallery Gertrude Stein.
The vitriol and fury of Lurie and his cohorts still runs in the veins of their art fifty and more years after it was created; it is as fresh, powerful, and, remarkably, beautiful, as it was in the cultural near-vacuum in which it was created.
The exhibition runs through July 30, 2011.
