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...CB's is still there, though I don't know anyone who still attends the events. It's a long club with a bar on the right starting a few feet after you walk in the door, with a raised seating area on the left. The raised area terminates at the soundboard; the bar stops just opposite and the space opens up a bit. Maybe another 30 feet or so through some tiny scattered circular tables there's a stage just a few feet off the floor. Hanging from the ceiling, massive monitors flank it. On the far left...
...neighborhood around CB's, the old Lower East Side of New York, rents were cheap. Lofts could go for one or two hundred bucks, apartments for less. The cheap rents and the dope (which was everywhere, three dollars a bag, with 50 or 60 people lined up on 2nd St. and Avenue B waiting for the dope store to open every morning) attracted the fringe players, the ones who couldn't handle the tedium in Queens or New Jersey or suburban anywhere. From this crowd of disaffected youth emerged our players, and the stage was CBGB...
...CB: From my background, I guess I grew up with a traditional notion of what they called "teaching-related exhibitions." Places like Ivy League schools think of the university art museum as a laboratory for students studying the history of art. When I started at the Rose back in the mid-1970s I was kind of naturally inclined to provide some exposure for Boston-area artists, to broaden support. For years I felt guilty that I didn't do any so-called "teaching-related exhibitions." I guess my approach was that you put up some reasonably good works and that...
...CB: I wrote the catalog up here [in Franconia, N.H., where Belz and his wife moved last year] and had to rely on memory for what the pieces looked like. I thought initially that maybe I could get in 100, sort of salon style, but then felt that wouldn't do as much justice to the individual artists as I wanted, so I had to start picking and choosing. As it became time to install the show I was anxious, wondering how they would hold up as they were all together. When I got to the Rose all the pieces...
...CB: Those structures or those approaches that frame you when you're learning--it amazes me how deep they run. It was a while before I began to realize how formative they are. I often had to battle those biases that had shaped my own thinking with modernism as a business. I continued to cling to some of them while being responsive to other kinds of things and I guess, to some extent, clinging is evidenced by my ongoing conviction that modernism ain't necessarily dead and that I get frustrated sometimes with writers who want blithely to say, "with...