The small independent paper was a lifeline for East Villagers from 1979 to 1987, featuring coverage of the neighborhood's early gentrification, its legendary music scene and its innovative visual art and graffiti.
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Choosing the doorways of shooting galleries and the shells of abandoned tenements as his canvas, Hambleton labored in the dead of night, slapping paint up quickly in the shifting glow of homeless trash fires, to create what Istvan Kantor, in his new “bio-novel,” Hero in Art: The Vanished Traces of Richard Hambleton, describes as “. . . an elaborate, permanently transmuting labyrinth.”
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