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Celebrating the Overlooked Legacy of Downtown Artist Jimmy DeSana

Celebrating the Overlooked Legacy of Downtown Artist Jimmy DeSana

Commemorating what would have been the artist’s 71st birthday this month, we look back at the life and times of an underground art radical.

Anya Phillips, 1978 © Jimmy DeSana. Courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

By the late 1970s, New York’s downtown avant garde rejected the corporate efforts to capitalize on the rebellious spirit of punk rock. Desperate to distance themselves from...

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