Reviewing the fertile melting pot of downtown New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The East Side Scene excavates the nightclubs and galleries where that decade's defining art was first exhibited. Featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gretchen Bender, Mike Bidlo, Keiko Bonk, Frederick Brathwaite, Arch Connelly, Claudia De Monte, John Fekner, Luis Frangella, Dan Friedman, Futura 2000, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, E.F. Higgins III, Mark Kostabi, Stephen Lack, Cheryl Laemmle, Peter Nagy, Kenny Scharf, David Wojnarowicz and Rhonda Zwillinger.
