Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, organized with Mary Boone, revisits a transformative era in the city’s cultural history. Featuring works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Guerrilla Girls, and others, the exhibition captures the energy of a decade marked by experimentation, activism, and shifting social identities. Painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper map a scene where critical voices confronted politics, consumer culture, gender, and race, while new aesthetic languages emerged in both uptown and downtown contexts. More than a historical survey, the exhibition reflects the interconnectedness of a community whose collaborations and rivalries redefined the trajectory of contemporary art.
