Linus Coraggio, Backstabbing—Distrust, A & P, Poster, 1985

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Linus Coraggio, “Backstabbing—Distrust,” 1985, exhibition poster, Xerox, 11″ x 17″.

The sculptor Linus Coraggio was a principal figure associated with the Rivington School, the group that installed an unruly and unauthorized welded sculpture assemblage in an abandoned lot on Forsyth Street. (See Toyo Tsuchiya and Istvan Kantor, Rivington School: 80s New York Underground [Black Dog Publishing], 2016.)

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In the mid-1980s, as gentrification encroached on the East Village, the neighborhood’s eastern fringe remained a lawless landscape of abandoned buildings and rubble-strewn lots.