Why should the decade which we were born into rest so easily within us? Romanticised and altogether more sprightly in character then those before our charge onto the scene, or after for that matter. Sometimes I like to see just what was happening in said decade, what would I think of that which was within it today? I am concerned with artwork, for to delve into the music is an easy out, it was the 1980’s.

Haunch of Venison, New York, currently has a collection on show, presenting art work solely from the 80’s, and specifically that created in New York itself. It is entitled ‘Your History is Not Our History’. It encapsulates work from a period during which I was a toddler, and documents it in a light which allows me to look back through a whole array, much of which I can confirm I have no romance or affection for at all.

Before today I had not come across Haunch, yet they have one in London, Berlin, New York and Zurich, here, they also have a great collection of artists to browse through.

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