Art Review: Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties

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A large Andy Warhol portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat in a jock strap is the first thing you see at “Downtown/Uptown.” And the choice is fitting, said J. Scott Orr in Whitehot, because the towering electric-red silk-screen image “captures everything about ’80s art: the need to shout above…

This story appeared on theweek.com, 2025-10-28 18:48:27.
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