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In on the ground floor: Avalanche and the SoHo art scene, 1970-1976.
Artforum International, November, 2005 by Allen, Gwen
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> PUBLISHED ONLY THIRTEEN TIMES over the course of six years--from fall 1970 through summer 1976--Avalanche made every issue count. Dense with information and photographs, the magazine functioned as a gallery without walls for art that eschewed architectural and institutional borders. From its unique vantage point in a section of Lower Manhattan then known unassumingly as the Southern Houston Industrial District (the magazine made its home in a minimally renovated former thread warehouse at 93 Grand Street), Avalanche surveyed the new-media art of the late '60s and early '70s, ...
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