88 Facts About the Summer of 1988
A look back at the music, films, news, and pop culture that made the summer of 1988 a unique season in history.
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A look back at the music, films, news, and pop culture that made the summer of 1988 a unique season in history.
A look back at the music, films, news, and pop culture that made the summer of 1988 a unique season in history.
A look back at the music, films, news, and pop culture that made the summer of 1988 a unique season in history.
On a sunny spring day I drove through the Catskill Mountains to visit my friend Uman at her South Pearl Street studio in downtown Albany. Her eight thousand square foot studio building was filled with paintings, drawings, painted objects, mannequins, fabrics, boxes of oil sticks, brushes and paint, and new glass sculptures that had just arrived in crates from San Francisco. Several workers were busy in the woodshop staining and making frames for new paintings. Her friend and studio manager, Joey Perez, helped with myriad details.
During the Cold War, jazz was arguably America’s most powerful non-nuclear weapon: It was music, not bullets, that contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall.