Whitney Museum, No Wave Cinema, 1978-87, Card, 1996

$75

Card for No Wave Cinema, 1978-87 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.  Front of card features a film still of Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style, 1982, showing Patti Astor with Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew. The exhibition included special presentations by Michael McClard Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Nan Goldin, as well as unseen film footage by David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Tuner.

5″ x 7″

no wave cinema show at whitney museum

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Amos Poe Charlie Ahearn Downtown Independent Film Film & Video Gallery Exhibition Cards Patti Astor Whitney Museum

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The No Wave and Independent films produced in downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s are an intriguing hybrid art form that intermingles music, fashion, performance and visual art.