I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s

Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New Yorkâ€™s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naivetÃ© and dysfunction that would destroy both their lives.
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Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at school, McGough attended art school in New York, dropped out, and took out jobs in clubs, where he met McDermott. Dazzled by McDermott, whom he found fascinating and worldly, McGough agreed to collaborate with him not only on their art but also in McDermottâ€™s very entertaining Victorian lifestyle. McGough evokes the rank and seedy East Village of that time, where he encountered Keith Haring, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Jacqueline and Julian Schnabel, among many others. Nights were spent at the Ninth Circle, Danceteria, and Studio 54; going to openings at the FUN Gallery; or visiting friends in the Chelsea Hotel. By the mid-1980s, McDermott & McGough were hugely successful, showing at three Whitney Biennials, represented by the best galleries here and abroad, and known for their painting, photography and â€œtime experimentâ€ interiors. Then, overnight, it was all gone. And one day in the mid-1990s, McGough would find that he, like so many of his friends, had been diagnosed with AIDS.
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Iâ€™ve Seen the Future and Iâ€™m Not Going is a compelling memoir for our time, told with humor and compassion, about how lives can become completely entwined even in failure and what it costs to reemerge, phoenix-like, and carry on.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
PartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
Color Grey
Height 9.54
Length 6.61
Weight 1.4991433816
Width 1.23
ReleaseDate 2019-09-17
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
Color	Grey
Height	9.54
Length	6.61
Weight	1.4991433816
Width	1.23
ReleaseDate	2019-09-17
NumberOfItems	1

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s

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