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Art Workers of New York, Unite!

โ€œWeโ€™re like the roadies of the art world,โ€ states Shane Caffrey in his 2010 video announcement for the first Art Handling Olympics. โ€œItโ€™s not an art piece, itโ€™s a community event โ€ฆ itโ€™s a thing for a community that has never really had any chance to get together.โ€

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One Radical Archive Offers a Hands-on Approach to Activist Art

The intensified activism of the 1960s fueled by the Vietnam War and struggles over class inequality, womenโ€™s rights, and black liberation drove the rapid growth of the underground press. Between 1965 and 1969, the five indie counterculture newspapers scattered across the United States multiplied to over 500 around the country, representing and communicating the voices of feminists, the Black Panther Party, gay activists, psychedelic aficionados, and other social movement groups with their art and design as radical as their messages. Rebel Newsprint: The Underground Press at Interference Archive in Gowanus is digging into this historic period with over 100 newspapers from across the sixties underground.