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Rivington SchoolRivington School group of artists that emerged during the turbulent 1980s in the heart of the Lower East Side, where like-minded street artists, sculptors and performers set about to create works that refuted and challenged an increasingly commercialised art world.Situated across the road from the school, the No Se No social club-also run by Rivington School founder "Cowboy" Ray Kelly-acted as a meeting and performance space for many of the artists involved, and was where the renowned "99 NIGHTS" of performance took place in 1983, documented every night by the photographer Toyo Tsuchiya. The School was also the origin of the guerrilla sculpture space the Rivington Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1985 and was destroyed more than once by the city authorities. Its construction/destruction is documented in the super-8 film ANTI CREDO by Monty Cantsin aka Istvan Kantor. Formed in a vacant lot next to the No Se No club, the evolving collective space was the site of the massive, welded metal junk sculpture that the group has become known for.The Rivington School gave rise to a number of highly regarded artists, including EF Higgins III, Ray Kelly, David Mora Catlett, Shalom Neuman, Toyo Tsuchiya, Istvan Kantor, Linus Coraggio, Paolo Buggiani, Tovey Halek, Jack Vengrow, Ken Hiratsuka, Gloria McLean, FA-Q (Kevin Wendall), Ena Paul Kostabi, Geoff "Gizmo" Gilmore, JIM C, Angela Idealism and Peter Missing.NER(01): WOW
