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title: "Basquiat’s world: Downtown NYC and the Mudd Club"
date: 2018-02-26
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:09:41+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/new-york-downtown-and-mudd-club-context-en/"
description: "New York City Downtown: a melting pot of the arts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was here that the Mudd Club opened its doors in 1978 – and became second home to Lower Manhattan’s underground scene."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Header_jmbmuddclub.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Basquiat’s world: Downtown NYC and the Mudd Club