PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewBrisk, wise, and admiring ... The book at times lacks the internal combustion of longer histories ... Shines when portraying the groundswells altering high society
Natalie Dykstra
PositiveThe Boston GlobeCompelling and informative ... There are just enough seeds in Dykstra’s book to discern a darker ego.
Prudence Peiffer
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewTenderly researched ... As the artists found their voices in those drafty illegal lofts, the antics reached a sitcom level, filling The Slip with rich art-world anecdotes and respectful gossip ... Th[e] interpretive mood might be what makes a book about art a not-insubstantial history of Lower Manhattan as well ... Peiffer’s snapshot of this hinge decade in modern art history should be your first port of call.
