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- Title
Being There: The Tribeca Neighborhood of Franklin Furnace.
- Authors
Moore, Alan; Wacks, Debra
- Abstract
This article sketches the geographical background of the Franklin Furnace. The article also discusses the cultural district, the Tribeca neighborhood of downtown Manhattan in New York City, which was the context for the protean and bumptious venue. This article is distantly informed by Pierre Bourdieu's conception of fields of production. It is influenced too by the resurgent discourse in the work of artists and geographers around conceptions of psychogeography derived from the Situationists. This is some sort of philosophically inclined guided tour of the Tribeca art world of the 1970s and 1980s, a beginning to a proper account of this vanished art world. To elucidate the complex aspects and overlaying scenes this narrative tour stutters somewhat in regard to time and place is discussed. The main artistic developments in Tribeca during the 1970s lay in the growth of demi-institutions: nonprofit places for art exhibition called alternative spaces. These proliferated below Canal Street, while the Soho district north of that street mainly saw a growth of commercial art galleries and shops. Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 nearly 10 years before the makeover of Teddy's.
- Subjects
MANHATTAN (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); ART museums; CULTURE; CENTRAL business districts; PERFORMING arts production &; direction; ARTISTS; GEOGRAPHERS
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2005, Vol 49, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Entertainment Review
- DOI
10.1162/1054204053327897