From the January 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. This fabulously immersive history – the story of a time, but more crucially a place – starts with a set of photographs. The pictures, taken in 1958, feature a group of young artists who were living at that time on Coenties Slip, a wharfside block right at the tip of Lower Manhattan, from where you could smell the money on Wall
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