Gritty Scene, Mostly Male and White

A show at the Grey Art Gallery reminds us what the arts communities in the East Village, SoHo and TriBeCa were like at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15downtown.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What would the proverbial alien, beamed into the Grey Art Gallery for a viewing of “Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991,” discern about New York toward the end of the last millennium? Maybe this: That it was very gritty, very gay and very Caucasian.