Crazy 4 Cult NY Celebrates Cinema Sleaze

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

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Published on Friday, 13 July 2012 19:02

Written by Renzo Adler

From August 9th to September 1st, 2012, Gallery1988 NY Pop-Up Store (64 Gansevoort Street) will pay tribute to the undeniable charm of video-store era cult movies with Crazy 4 Cult: NEW YORK.

Going to the video store used to be a ritualistic trek to a valley of rack after rack of tantalizing box-art with promises of so many cheap thrills and unexpected delights.

I still remember the time when the box for John Water's twadry and disgusting Pink Flamingos first caught my eye at a local video store. These movies, cheap and tawdry to some, had an undeniable allure to them, sometimes coupled with a sense of reverent mysticism.

The Crazy 4 Cult art-series has been a fixture at Gallery1988’s California locations (where they’re wrapping up on “There’s always money in the banana stand”, a display of art based on the show Arrested Development) for four years now, and this will be the first time the Crazy 4 Cult series will be conducted in New York.

To learn more, go to: http://nineteeneightyeight.com/

Crazy 4 Cult: NEW YORK
August 9 – September 1, 2012

Gallery1988 NY Pop-Up Store
64 Gansevoort Street
New York, NY 10014

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