6 Artists Revisit Their Works From the Early ’80s
How strong is the temptation to tinker with a published piece? T asked artists including Bill T. Jones, Laurie Anderson and Ntozake Shange to reconsider their celebrated 1980s works.
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Photo CreditPaul Smith 10 Polaroids
Paul Smith Captures 48 Hours in Los Angeles — in Polaroids
The British designer shares his favorite places in Los Angeles, from a Hollywood costume collection to the Chateau Marmont.
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Photo CreditDavid Jarrett/Museum of the City of New York. X2010.11.2312 13 Celebrated New Yorkers on Their Early ’80s Apartments and Jobs
Rosie Perez, Thurston Moore and others on how they made it in New York during one of the city’s most dizzying periods, from 1981 through 1983.
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Photo CreditPhoto illustration by Grant Gold/The New York Times. Clockwise from top: Andre Grossmann; Roxanne Lowit; Getty Images; Henny Garfunkel. New York City, 1981-1983: 36 Months That Changed the Culture
In the early '80s, everything seemed to be happening at once — and from this blur emerged a culture forever changed.
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Photo CreditPhotograph by Arthur Elgort. Styled by Malina Joseph Gilchrist When Models Became as Famous as the Artists they Inspired
In the early ’80s, beguiling muses like Patti Hansen, Farida Khelfa and Pat Cleveland were not just faces, but names — and paved the way for ’90s supermodels.
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On Beauty
Photo CreditDina Litovsky Two Days at a Beauty Festival for the Age of Instagram
All the glitter of Beautycon NYC, captured by the photographer Dina Litovsky.
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Things Editors Like
Photo CreditCasa Shop 6 Things T Editors Like Right Now
A by-no-means-exhaustive list of the things our editors (and a few contributors) find interesting on a given week.
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One Good Meal
Photo CreditPaul Quitoriano A Fashion Designer’s Simple Mediterranean Fish Dish
Rosie Assoulin shares her favorite weeknight recipe, inspired by a trip to Puglia.
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Photo CreditPhotographs by Anthony Goicolea. Styled by Haidee Findlay-Levin. Hair and makeup direction by Regina Harris Four Geniuses, Gone to AIDS, as They Might Be Today
The epidemic didn’t just deprive us of millions of lives — it deprived us of decades of potential masterpieces of fashion, art, design, theater and dance.
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Photo CreditPortrait by Neal Slavin. Produced by Minju Pak and Lauren Tabach-Bank. The Children of New York City’s Greatest Generation
Growing up amid grit and glamour, these ’80s kids learned how to make creative lives of their own.
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Photo CreditStephanie Chernikowski/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images What New York Was Like in the Early ’80s — Hour by Hour
Kim Gordon, Larry Gagosian, Nile Rodgers and many others revisit their wild nights and disjointed days.
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In Fashion
Photo CreditPhotography by Ian Kenneth Bird. Styled by Alex Tudela This Season’s Leather Pieces, Inspired by ’80s New York
Spring men’s wear that channels the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s visual world.
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Photo CreditIlya Milstein New Yorkers and Their ’80s Routines — Block by Block
Notable locals, including Dapper Dan, Tama Janowitz and Brad Gooch, on their homes, hangouts and routes around the city.
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Photo CreditT Magazine Stars Remember the Golden Age of New York Theater
A behind-the-scenes look at how 21 extraordinary theater actors — Sarah Jessica Parker, John Kelly and Kathy Bates among them — came together for a T magazine photo shoot at the LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan’s East Village and reminisced about their first big breaks.
T’s April 22 Culture Issue
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Photo Credit The Enduring Style of an Underground ’80s TV Show
The offbeat style of ‘TV Party,’ hosted by Glenn O’Brien, still looks fresh today.
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Photo Credit Bejeweled Party Shoes With ’80s Appeal
Shimmering sandals that evoke the glamour of Studio 54.
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Photo Credit Those We Lost to the AIDS Epidemic
A memorial to a small fraction of the thousands of New Yorkers who died of H.I.V./AIDS-related causes.
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Photo Credit Seven Icons of New York in the Early ’80s
Carolina Herrera, Jennifer Beals and more are on the covers of T’s April 22 Culture issue.
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Letter from the Editor
Photo Credit T’s Culture Issue: Time on Fire
If you want a compelling case that, yes, we arriviste New Yorkers may have indeed missed the party, one has only to look to the 36 months between the beginning of 1981 and the end of 1983.
