Claes Oldenburg's The Street and urban renewal in Greenwich Village, 1960.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Pedestrians walking down Thompson Street off Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park in the winter of 1960 were beckoned, by means of a messily painted sign and mural, into the basement of the Judson Church House (Fig. 1). The building served as the center for the social programs of the progressive Judson Memorial Church, which had presided over the south side of the square for more than a century (Figs. 2, 3). In the late 1950s, the basement of the church house had been converted into living and studio space for a handful of the neighborhood's many artists, and by the ...

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