In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, donned disguises — wigs and blackface — and set out in their car from Williamsburg, ...

NEW YORK -- During the 1970s and early '80s, New Yorkers endured a period memorable for all that was awful about it. The city fired 64,000 workers, closed 22 fire companies and raised subway fares.

Warhol. Basquiat. Haring. Schnabel. Kruger. Legends of the art world, and part of a community of artists in New York in the 1980s. “These were artists that were competitive against each other. They ...

Mary Boone stages a comeback at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery, taking a fresh look at the decade’s groundbreaking artists, from Basquiat and Haring, to Julian Schnabel and Cindy Sherman. From the front, ...