Word: rivington
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...Kinds of wine—CHEAP, DECENT, and GOOD—that are served at Schiller's at 131 Rivington Street, the inspiration for novelist Richard Price's Cafe Berkmann in his acclaimed 2008 novel Lush Life, which explores the conflicting identities of the neighborhood through the murder of a Lower East Side hipster by a street kid. The influx of well-off young people has been controversial. The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy derisively calls the changes "hipification" and "Yupification...
...direct, unexpected conversations with one another. Continuing on the avant-garde trajectory of post-studio practice, Bader works on the belief that anything that is visual can be qualified as art. His 2007 installation, “as = poaching the poachers” at New York’s Rivington Arms, for example, consisted of objects like the ones listed above placed next to each other without an immediately apparent pattern. It explored and challenged the binary relationship between space and object, optical and tactile perceptions. “What art is is based on each individual, how it?...