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The Slip

The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
  • Prudence Peiffer
2023
Harper

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Featured Excerpts

  • Artists on the roof of 3-5 Coenties Slip, New York, 1958. Photograph: Hans Namuth
    Book Review

    Remembering the Slip: The Manhattan Street that Birthed a Generation of Artists

    The tiny downtown passage, where artists burned pallets for warmth, was home to Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin.
    by Hannah Marriott via The Guardian on August 2, 2023
  • Ellsworth Kelly at his Coenties Slip Studio, New York, 1961.
    Book Review

    How a Formerly Deserted Waterfront Neighborhood Attracted Artists to Manhattan in the Mid 1900s

    A compelling history of the fertile 1950s-’60s firmament surveys Lower Manhattan’s Coenties Slip.
    by Walker Downey via Art In America on August 1, 2023
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