or revisit the “East Village Art Scene” they loosely coincided with—a scene that, for one, brief, improbable moment, made the neighborhood the West Chelsea of its day, and forever banished ...

Tran Huu Chat was a Vietnamese artist known for his carved lacquer paintings of village scenes. Beginning as a poster painter and working in charcoal on dried banana leaf, Tran Huu Chat quickly ...

“We were proud to be Jews,” Toby Knobel Fluek recalls of the scene, captured in her evocatively tender but harrowing memoir, “Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949.” Fluek ...

In the heady ’80s East Village art scene, Indiana emerged as its dark prince, and starred in Michel Auder’s classic 1981 film A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, alongside ...