The following list includes articles, reviews, essays and other documents relating to ABC No Rio, its history and origin, its activity, and the political and cultural milieu of which it is and has been a part. If you have or know of similar material please contact us at abc@abcnorio.org.
‘An Artists’ Squat Fought New York City for Decades. Did it Just Win?’, by John Leland
‘The New York Times’, October 8, 2024
‘Iconic NYC Art Squat-Turned-Nonprofit Is Getting a New Home’ by Maya Pontone
‘Hyperallergic’, Sept 29, 2024
‘ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side’, by Melanie Marich
The City, July 16, 2024
‘With New York’s Help, a Center of Art and Protest to Get a New Home’, by Colin Moynihan.
‘The New York Times’, July 16, 2024
‘How Zines Survive: A View of the ABC No Rio in Exile Zine Library’, by Kori Michele Handwerker
‘Solrad.co’, Feb 26, 2020
‘When Posters Were the Samizdat of the Lower East Side’ by Colin Moynihan
‘The New York Times’, May 18, 2017
‘ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home’,by Colin Moynihan
“The New York Times’, May 16, 2016
‘Goodbye To All That: “InFinite Futures” and “The Past Will Be Present” at ABC No Rio’, by Emily Colucci
‘Art F City’ June 23, 2016
‘1980s Counterculture, and Its Legacy, in Zines’ by Claire Voon
‘Hyperallergic’, August 27, 2014
‘Community Interactivism’ by Colin Moynihan
‘The Industry Standard’, September 18, 2000
Cataloguing Adam Purple’s archives at ABC No Rio
‘The New York Times’, July 16, 2000
‘ABC NO RIO’ by John Giglio
‘ARTspeak.com’, December 23, 1998
‘No Future!’: C. Carr on Frank’s Depression Poetry commemoration at ABC No Rio
‘Village Voice’, September 8, 1998
Review of the ‘Urban Encounters’ show at the New Museum
‘Village Voice’, August XX, 1998
Article on ‘Our Unorganicized Reading’ at ABC No Rio
‘CUPS’, September 1997
‘Spare Some Change?’ by Robert Kolker
‘Time Out New York’, March 20, 1997
‘Arts Group Wins Eviction Battle’ by Andrew Jacobs
‘The New York Times’, February 23, 1997
‘Arts Center Fights Eviction’ by Steve Wishnia
‘The Tenant’, February 1997
‘5 Arrested in ABC No Rio Protest’ by Michael Haberman
‘The Villager’, January 22, 1997
Reply by Robin Goldsmith to ‘Time Out New York’ article
October 27, 1996
Article from ‘Time Out New York’ on the City’s effort to evict Lower East Side cultural centers
October 10, 1996
‘ABC No RIP’ by Sarah Ferguson
‘Village Voice’, October 8, 1996
‘Housing Group At Throat Of ABC No Rio’ by Claud Solnick
‘Manhattan Mirror’, April 20, 1996
Excerpt from GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW
URBAN DEVELOPMENT, Article 16
Urban Development Action Area Project (UDAAP)
Recollections of ‘A Mica Bunker’ at ABC No Rio
compiled & organized by Judy Dunaway
‘The Improvisor, The International Journal of Free Improvisation”, Volume XI, 1996
Reply by Dave Powell to ‘Jersey Beat’ articles
‘JERSEY BEAT’ #58, Fall 1996
‘Is ABC No Rio Worth Saving?’ by Donny the Punk
‘JERSEY BEAT’ #56, Spring 1996
‘The Rise & Fall (& Rise Again) Of NYC’s Only All-Ages Non-Racist, Non-Sexist, Non-Homophobic Punk Scene’
‘JERSEY BEAT’ #56, Spring 1996
Article on the origin of Blackout Books
‘Temp Slave’ #7, 1995
‘ABC No Rio Fights Eviction By a Nonprofit’ by Claude Solnick
‘Manhattan Mirror’, October 10, 1995
Article by Steve Wishnia from ‘The Shadow’ on the effort to evict ABC No Rio
December 1995
‘ABC No Rio Moves Nearer To Being Ousted’ by Michael Haberman
‘The Villager’, December 13, 1995
Transcript of New York City Council Subcommittee hearing on inclusion of 156 Rivington Street in L.U. 133096 HAM (Urban Development Action Area Project)
November 14, 1995
Essay by Chris Boarts from ‘Slug & Lettuce’ #35
July 1994
Essay by Chris Boarts from ‘Slug & Lettuce’ #36
September 1994
Essay by Chris Boarts from ‘Slug & Lettuce’ #37
December 1994
Essay by Chris Boarts from ‘Slug & Lettuce’ #32
November 1993
Essay by Chris Boarts from ‘Slug & Lettuce’ #27
September/October 1992
Interview with Jack Waters, Peter Cramer and Lou Acierno
May 1991
‘Village Voice’ article on the HC/Punk Matinee
December 1990
Letter to ‘MaximumRockandRoll’ referenced in above ‘Village Voice’ article
November 1990
Catalogue Text–ABC NO RIO: TEN YEARS, SEVEN DAYS
Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
October 1990
‘Mirabella’ blurb about Matthew Courtney’s Wide-Open Cabaret
March 1990
‘Village Voice’ review of Roger Vitrac’s ‘Victor’
directed by Robin Goldsmith at ABC No Rio
October 24, 1989
Article from the zine ‘X-posure’
Summer 1989
‘Village Voice’ article: Erl Kimmich / Darius James reading
March 28, 1989
Profile of Rivington Street by Richard Armijo, from ‘East Informer’
July 1987
‘The Fine Art of Gentrification’ by Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan
‘The Portable Lower East Side’, Spring 1987
‘Der Spiegel’ article about Fassbinder’s ‘Trash, the City, and Death’
previewed at ABC No Rio; Thieves Theater Company, March 1987
‘The ABCs of ABC No Rio And Its Times’
by Alan Moore and Marc Miller from the book ‘ABC No Rio Dinero’, 1985
‘Village Voice’ review of ‘ABC No Rio Dinero’ and other books on the East Village Art Scene
September 1985
‘Spatial Deconcentration’ by Yolanda Ward
‘World War III Illustrated’ #6, 1985
‘New York Post’ article about the ‘Animals Living in Cities’ show
November 29, 1980
‘East Village Eye’ review of the International Show
September/October 1980
‘New York Times’ article on the Real Estate Show
January 9, 1980
‘East Village Eye’ article on the Real Estate Show
January 1980
Statement by the Organizers of the Real Estate Show
January 5(?), 1980
‘New York Post’ article on the Real Estate Show
January 3, 1980
Manifesto or Statement of Intent–The Real Estate Show
December, 1979