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In this dark, moody, neon-lit book (with a foreword by Chris Kraus), the research photographs and finished works of American painter Jane Dickson are placed side by side. Her subject: 'Sodom on the Hudson', the seedy, criminal night-time world of Manhattan in the 70s and 80s. - Tatler Times Square was not always a sensory overload tourist destination in central Manhattan, and this book is akin to a time machine that takes readers back to a time when New York City was a rich hotbed for culture - Lonely Planet In this dark, moody, neon-lit book (with a foreword by Chris Kraus), the research photographs and finished works of American painter Jane Dickson are placed side by side. Her subject: 'Sodom on the Hudson', the seedy, criminal night-time world of Manhattan in the 70s and 80s. -Tatler Jane Dickson in Times Square makes for a fittingly complex portrait of her work and of the city. Photographed, drawn, painted and observed at a time that is now distant enough to be flattened and romanticised; Dickson's work shows the potential of capturing a city - its flaws and tensions, the bright lights and wild energy, a little bit out of control. -It's Nice That

In this dark, moody, neon-lit book (with a foreword by Chris Kraus), the research photographs and finished works of American painter Jane Dickson are placed side by side. Her subject: 'Sodom on the Hudson', the seedy, criminal night-time world of Manhattan in the 70s and 80s. -Tatler Jane Dickson in Times Square makes for a fittingly complex portrait of her work and of the city. Photographed, drawn, painted and observed at a time that is now distant enough to be flattened and romanticised; Dickson's work shows the potential of capturing a city - its flaws and tensions, the bright lights and wild energy, a little bit out of control. -It's Nice That

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"Jane Dickson is an American painter. As a central figure of New York's explosive downtown / uptown art scene starting in the late 1970s, she has participated in numerous iconic exhibitions. From 1978 to 1981, Dickson worked the weekend night shift for the computer billboard at 1 Times Square, where she later organized the Public Art Fund's ""Messages to the Public"" series from 1982-1990, for which she invited friends such as Haring, Jenny Holzer and David Hammons to contribute digital artwork. In the ensuing decades, Dickson continued to create and exhibit frequently, and her work is currently represented in more than 30 museum collections, including those of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

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