ABC No Rio 45 Years
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In April of 2025, ABC No Rio celebrates 45 years of existence on NYC's Lower East Side with an exhibition of its history at the Emily Harvey Fndtn in Soho.
This Bluesky account will record the progress of that project.
Expo site - https://abcnorio45.org/
This Bluesky account will record the progress of that project.
Expo site - https://abcnorio45.org/
Reposted by ABC No Rio 45 Years
check out my review of the exhibition ABC No Rio 45 Years at the Emily Harvey Foundation in @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social here
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Squatters’ Rights
This wasn’t a luxury condo viewing, but rather an “art show celebrating insurrectionary urban development.”
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August 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
check out my review of the exhibition ABC No Rio 45 Years at the Emily Harvey Foundation in @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social here
nyra.nyc/articles/squ...
nyra.nyc/articles/squ...
John Fekner sends this image of ABC No Rio in November of 1980, taken from the adjoining rooftop. It illustrates his work for the "Animals Living in Cities" exhibition, a street graffiti -- "This concrete separates the earth from the animals"
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
John Fekner sends this image of ABC No Rio in November of 1980, taken from the adjoining rooftop. It illustrates his work for the "Animals Living in Cities" exhibition, a street graffiti -- "This concrete separates the earth from the animals"
Bobby G, organizer of the first years' exhibition at ABC No Rio 45 Years, speaking back in the day....
1985
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1985
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Bobby G | New Young Painters - ART/new york No. 25
YouTube video by Paul Tschinkel
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April 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Bobby G, organizer of the first years' exhibition at ABC No Rio 45 Years, speaking back in the day....
1985
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rm...
1985
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Big talk event -- Friday, April 18th
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Big talk event -- Friday, April 18th
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Preview of book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, a panel discusses the 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
Fly and Open Mic organizer and street artist Matthew Courtney at our "soft opening" Friday. The show is up and spectacularly open -- see @abcnorio45.org for event dates and gallery hours
April 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Fly and Open Mic organizer and street artist Matthew Courtney at our "soft opening" Friday. The show is up and spectacularly open -- see @abcnorio45.org for event dates and gallery hours
Squeezing Seth Tobocman's monumental painting construction recalling the squatter movement into the door for "ABC No Rio 45 Years". Soft opening the day of the big demo, April 5th, 12noon to 7pm. Drop by after the march!
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Squeezing Seth Tobocman's monumental painting construction recalling the squatter movement into the door for "ABC No Rio 45 Years". Soft opening the day of the big demo, April 5th, 12noon to 7pm. Drop by after the march!
Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx / A walking tour for Bronxites: Lisa Ortega & Nicolás
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
March 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx / A walking tour for Bronxites: Lisa Ortega & Nicolás
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join contact @interiobeutusalon
EiLeen Doster: "I think of bands, poetry, print shop, hanging out with Ginsberg and Fly... I used to volunteer for Food Not Bombs and get unsold produce from the Union Square Farmers Market and push it to Tompkins on this big ass trolley that belonged to the Yippies. "
March 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
EiLeen Doster: "I think of bands, poetry, print shop, hanging out with Ginsberg and Fly... I used to volunteer for Food Not Bombs and get unsold produce from the Union Square Farmers Market and push it to Tompkins on this big ass trolley that belonged to the Yippies. "
Part of our "ABC No Rio at 45 Years" exposition is taking place in collaboration with The Clemente
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Historietas: Latinx Comix as Alternative Histories — #TheClemente | The Clemente
Historietas: Latinx Comix as Alternative Histories Opening Reception and Comic Slideshow: April 6 @ 2:00 PM On View: April 6 - May 31, 2025 Where: 4th Floor @ The Clemente 107 Suffolk St...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Part of our "ABC No Rio at 45 Years" exposition is taking place in collaboration with The Clemente
www.theclementecenter.org/calendar/his...
www.theclementecenter.org/calendar/his...
The ABCNoRio45 Years project's cybernetics officer facing nature in an undisclosed location in the Caribbean.
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The ABCNoRio45 Years project's cybernetics officer facing nature in an undisclosed location in the Caribbean.
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
Here is his handiwork -- the ever-evolving events page for the April exposition.
abcnorio45.org
We'll have John Fekner t-shirts (a 2023 re-issue of a classic 1982 design) available at the @ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Snag one and support No Rio.
March 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We'll have John Fekner t-shirts (a 2023 re-issue of a classic 1982 design) available at the @ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Snag one and support No Rio.
Remembering the anti-nuclear mural John Fekner and John "Crash" Matos collaborated on around the corner from ABC No Rio in 1981. It was on an abandoned building. Within weeks the City knocked it down. (Photo: Lisa Kahane)
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March 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Remembering the anti-nuclear mural John Fekner and John "Crash" Matos collaborated on around the corner from ABC No Rio in 1981. It was on an abandoned building. Within weeks the City knocked it down. (Photo: Lisa Kahane)
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Mail art continues to flow in for the April exposition "ABC No Rio 45 Years". See it at our Flickr site - www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Mail art continues to flow in for the April exposition "ABC No Rio 45 Years". See it at our Flickr site - www.flickr.com/photos/20240...
Vikki Law in an interview, remembering the too-easily forgotten....
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March 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Vikki Law in an interview, remembering the too-easily forgotten....
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A screenshot of ABC meeting during Artists Call days, 1983. Alan, Becky, Feliz Perez, and Maria Acosta. The other guy I don't recognize. The video? So much stuff is coming out of the woodwork now.....
March 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A screenshot of ABC meeting during Artists Call days, 1983. Alan, Becky, Feliz Perez, and Maria Acosta. The other guy I don't recognize. The video? So much stuff is coming out of the woodwork now.....
We gonna deal with this next month at @ABCNoRio45 Years expo.... but Hyperallergic is on it fast.
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Hyperallergic Town Hall: As DEI Slowly Dies, What Comes Next?
At our virtual town hall meeting on March 19, Hyperallergic Members will hear from Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade on the tenuous state of DEI in the art world.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We gonna deal with this next month at @ABCNoRio45 Years expo.... but Hyperallergic is on it fast.
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March 17, Monday 12:15pm-1:30pm (EDT)
Talia Boyd, of Keep it in the Ground Camp'n of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
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Talia Boyd, of Keep it in the Ground Camp'n of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
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March 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
March 17, Monday 12:15pm-1:30pm (EDT)
Talia Boyd, of Keep it in the Ground Camp'n of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Zoom Link jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/8917454175...
Meet ID: 824 4849 3902 Passcode: 476010
One tap mobile +16465588656,,82448493902# (New York)
Dial +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Talia Boyd, of Keep it in the Ground Camp'n of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Zoom Link jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/8917454175...
Meet ID: 824 4849 3902 Passcode: 476010
One tap mobile +16465588656,,82448493902# (New York)
Dial +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Maybe it's only nails in the coffin. The abolition horizon has been darkening for a while, as Peter Gelderloos reported last year.... petergelderloos.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The death of abolition
or: toothless, hopeless, broke, and heartbroke
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March 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Maybe it's only nails in the coffin. The abolition horizon has been darkening for a while, as Peter Gelderloos reported last year.... petergelderloos.substack.com/p/the-death-...
We'll be in the street on April 5th. Nationwide....
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March 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We'll be in the street on April 5th. Nationwide....
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Tomorrow 7pmEST is a webinar to explain @ABCNoRio45 Years. For login deatils, see www.instagram.com/p/DHR1QQauTGh/
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March 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tomorrow 7pmEST is a webinar to explain @ABCNoRio45 Years. For login deatils, see www.instagram.com/p/DHR1QQauTGh/
Still time to get your mail art in for #ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Send to – ABC NO RIO 45, 123 Scribner Avenue, Staten Island, NY USA. Please include email address to confirm receipt. Questions? abcnorio45@yahoo.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Still time to get your mail art in for #ABCNoRio45 Years exhibition in April. Send to – ABC NO RIO 45, 123 Scribner Avenue, Staten Island, NY USA. Please include email address to confirm receipt. Questions? abcnorio45@yahoo.com
A blog post for the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" project -- "A walk in Loisaida". Several years ago when some old comrades were still with us. This post concentrates on the Latinx coordinates of the #ABCNoRio45 project -- the inspiration of the Young Lords and the thunder of Nuyorican poets.
March 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A blog post for the "ABC No Rio 45 Years" project -- "A walk in Loisaida". Several years ago when some old comrades were still with us. This post concentrates on the Latinx coordinates of the #ABCNoRio45 project -- the inspiration of the Young Lords and the thunder of Nuyorican poets.
Our event got into the famous Slingshot collective's newsletter.... Hoping to get some letters from the follks in the big broad land before 47 shuts down the USPS.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our event got into the famous Slingshot collective's newsletter.... Hoping to get some letters from the follks in the big broad land before 47 shuts down the USPS.
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...
slingshotcollective.org/a12-call-for...