Audio: The Very Beginnings of the Williamsburg Art Scene
Sideshow’s (S. 2nd St.) curator Richie Temperio spoke with Art Talk’s The Greatest Interview Show of All Time about the art scene in the 60′s and 70′s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They had Thai restaurants everywhere back then too!
In The Greatest Interview Show of All Time’s ongoing oral history of Williamsburg, Will finds Richie Temperio, curator and gallerist extraordinaire, at home in Sideshow, his gallery on South 2nd Street. Richie talks about being an artist in Williamsburg way back when, and provides some intriguing details about the very beginnings of the art scene there; and we’re not talking the early-90s here–we’re talking the 60s and 70s, people! He then recounts stories of his offbeat gallery space, from hanging his friends work in a local Thai restaurant for free beer to creating one of the most well-known alternative spaces–a “sideshow” if you will–to the ostensible main event taking place in a concurrent Chelsea gallery exhibit.
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