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The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. More about this book >
Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Director of Content at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a senior editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications.
(Photo credit: Charles Fulford)
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