In 1969, Stefano Ripamonti was feeling good about life. He was in his late twenties, working a glamorous job at an Italian high fashion shoe firm. He’d recently married his childhood sweetheart and ...

New York’s art scene in the 1970s. Louise Bourgeois, Dan Flavin, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, ...

The #J20 Art Strike resonates with the approach of the 1970 New York Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War, also commonly referred to as the Art Strike. The Art Strike on the ...

For a vivid trip to the LGBTQ past, forget quantum physics or flux capacitors — a growing Facebook group, Gay New York 1970s and 80s, serves as a virtual online time machine, guiding its tens of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state officials agreed on Friday to relax harsh 1970s drug laws that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in favor of laws that will let judges send ...

The historical novel, once considered the height of kitsch—Henry James described it as “condemned … to a fatal cheapness”—has staged a remarkable comeback over the course of the last several decades.

In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever. Pace McGill and Paul Kasmin ...

New York City's subway map, famous but illegible to tourists, has finally been redesigned. The new map is much like one briefly used in the 1970s, rejected then for making it too easy to get around.

Regarding James Brigham Jr.’s “Lessons for California in New York’s 1970s Comeback” (Cross Country, Jan. 25): There are several differences between New York City’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s and today ...

Harry Albino presents a moving coming-of-age novel about talent, class, love, and the quiet lessons that shape ...

Robert Precht, now in his 70s, shared this photo of the 1982 NYC Pride March to the the Gay New York 1970s and 80s Facebook page in June. When he took this photo, Precht wrote on his post, he was a ...