There’s something decidedly odd about staging a Club 57 exhibit in the basement of the Museum of Modern Art – akin to building a bonfire underneath an igloo. MoMA boasts annual revenues in the ...

For members of New York City’s downtown art scene in the late 1970s and early ’80s, hitting the club didn’t mean navigating through a velvet rope, negotiating with a brutish bouncer and ordering ...

“At any given time, the club was a dance hall, a screening room, a watering hole, a theater lab, an art gallery, or a self-styled ‘let it all hang out’ encounter group,” writes artist Ann Magnuson in ...

Ann Magnuson and other Club 57 regulars in the early 80s I moved to New York from West Virginia in 1978 to be an intern at an off-off-Broadway theatre. I was 22, with ambitions of becoming a theatre ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Department of Film Special Collections The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Department of Film Special Collections In 1978, Stanley Strychacki, who oversaw the ...

Per an agreement with Viacom International Studios (VIS) Americas, TV Azteca is set to air the musical series Club 57 beginning next month. The series, which will bow on Azteca 7 in July, is a ...

Club 57, a co-production between Viacom International Studios (VIS) Americas and Rainbow, has been licensed to the children’s channel Biggs to air in Portugal and Africa. Club 57 originally premiered ...

Mick Jagger never went there. Andy Warhol never mentioned it in his diaries. But in the late 1970s and early 80’s, Club 57 was arguably the most transgressive downtown ­Manhattan venue of all. Located ...

April Palmieri, Valentine’s Day Repose, 1982. Pictured: Katy K and John Sex in the window of Fiorucci. April Palmieri “Club 57: Film, Performance and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983,” the salute to ...