ABC No Rio News
-----MAY 1, 2010-----
LONG OUT OF PRINT, ABC NO RIO DINERO NOW ON-LINE
Thanks to Marc Miller, the long out print book ABC No Rio Dinero: Portrait of a Lower East Side Art Gallery is now online at Marc's website, http://98bowery.com
Published in 1985 and edited by Marc Miller and Alan Moore, one of No Rio's founders and a current Board Member, ABC No Rio Dinero has been a much cited primary source about the New York art scene of the 1980s.
With new layouts and color scans, the online version of ABC No Rio Dinero preserves the early history of a pioneer Lower East Side art space that was the unplanned progeny of the "Real Estate Show," an illegal exhibition in an abandoned, city-owned building squatted by artists on New Year's Eve 1980.
Compiling art and articles from the period, the book includes sections on Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab), the Time Square Show, the South Bronx art space Fashion-Moda, Group Material, PADD, and East Village music and art in the 1980s. Amongst the featured artists and writers are young, up-and-comers of the 1980s like Kiki Smith, Tom Otterness, John Ahearn, Tim Rollins, Walter Robinson, and Jeffrey Deitch; the No Rio stalwarts Becky Howland, Bobby G, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters; photographers Martha Cooper, Lisa Kahane, and Tom Warren; established voices like Lucy Lippard; and a poetry section edited by Josh Gosciak that includes Amiri Baraka, Bob Holman and Miguel Pinero.
http://98bowery.com
-----JUNE 26, 2009-----
ABC NO RIO TO RECEIVE CITY FUNDING FOR BUILDING PROJECT
We're delighted to let you know that ABC No Rio has been awarded $1,650,000 in City funding for the planned construction of our new facility on our site at 156 Rivington Street.
$450,000 from our City Council representative, Alan Gerson
$450,00 from the City Council Manhattan Delegation
$750,000 from Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
With the half a million already raised we still got a few hundred thousand dollars to go for the first phase of the project, but this is obviously a tremendous boost!
This is also a victory for small arts organizations. This commitment by elected officials shows they appreciate and recognize the importance of such projects and organizations to the cultural vitality of New York City, and hopefully is a sign of robust support for others in the future.
We'll be providing information about project status and schedule on our website in the coming months.
ABC No Rio Volunteers, the ABC No Rio Board of Directors and ABC No Rio Director Steven Englander are tremendously grateful to the support of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, our City Councilman Alan Gerson, the City Council Manhattan Delegation, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and City Councilman Dominic Recchia, Chair of the Cultural Affairs, Libraries & International Intergroup Relations Committee. We thank them for their commitment to ABC No Rio, and their confidence in our mission, purpose and plans for the future.
ABC No Rio, Brooklyn Rail
New space in the works for LES artists community.
Reclaiming New York for Local Arts - Wiretap Magazine
How ABC No Rio artists bought a building for one dollar in one of the world's most expensive cities.
