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note of the Straight Up item about right-wing
navel-gazer Stephen Schwartz laying his dead hand on Hunter S. Thompson. Our staff of
thousands says thanks to Gawker for boosting traffic and welcome to all you newbies. So, while
we have your eyeballs …
“The 80s: 326 Years of Hip,” a group show of four
octogenarian artists at the Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side,
has been extended “due to popular demand,” gallery owner and co-curator Clayton Patterson
says. To celebrate, the gallery will host a literary evening on Friday. Readings from the writings of
Beat memoirist Herbert Huncke will feature actress/author Tatum O’Neal, performance artist
Edgar Oliver, writer Jack Walls, video artist Anne Hanavan, screenwriter Jeremiah Newton,
Warhol Superstar Taylor Mead, poet Ira Cohen, photographer Dash Snow, and plenty of others
from the alternative underground. Be there, starting at 7 p.m. (161 Essex St.) (At right, “The Herbert Huncke Reader.”)
The show’s opening “was a smash,” Patterson says. A jam-packed crowd of more than 100
underground and outsider luminaries showed up, including artist Andre Serrano, poet Gerard
Malanga, photographer Ryan McGinley, writer Victor Bockris, writer Larry “Ratso” Sloman,
publishers and writers Foxy Kidd and Romy Ashby, and performance artists Edgar Oliver, Penny
Arcade and Karen Finley.
Oh yeah, mustn’t forget: The octogenarian artists whose works are being exhibited in the
show are Mary Beach, Boris Lurie, Taylor Mead and Huncke, who died at 81 in 1996. Have a look at this.
