THE SEVEN LETTER WORD is a game made up of seven letters. The letters are always the same. The letters add up to spell a word. The word is always the same. The letters are only used once. It is possible there are mistakes in these drawings. See if you can discover the wort. See if you can find any mistakes.►more
THE CAMERA: “Videographer, writer, artist, activist, and self-styled outsider, Clayton Patterson has lived through and broadly documented more facets of underground history on New York’s LES East than anyone else over the past nearly 40 years.” ... ►more
TATTOO GAZETTE 5th, 2020: The Tattoo Society Of New York started in 1986. Here’s how it began. I saw an ad in the back of the Village Voice advertising the meetings of a tattoo club. It was called TBASNY: Tattoo and Body Art Society of NY, run by Roger Kaufman and a guy known as Mike, and it set up shop in the Sixth . ►more
CLAYTON: GODFATHER OF LOWER EAST SIDE DOCUMENTARY — A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Julian Voloj 2019: For the first time ever, legendary photographer and videographer Clayton Patterson—who Anthony Bourdain described as the “archivist of all things Lower East Side”—is the subject of a graphic novel anthology. Like no other, Clayton has documented ... ►more
THE STREET GANGS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE "keeps it real." Jose "COCHISE" Quiles provides a brutally honest, self-reflective and moving account of one badass gangbanger's struggle to break the cycle of violence and poverty since birth through creativity and compassion for others. Quiles's eventual redemption Springs from a life spent keeping one foot on either side of the line between good and evil ... ►more
JEWS, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE is the story of a "holy water" spring buried beneath the foundation of the Jewish Daily Forward building on East Broadway, and of a six-month prison sentence from Essex Market Court for throwing snowballs. It is the story of cheap rents, knishes from Russ & Daughters, and children screaming at tour buses to ... ►more
LEGENDS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE sharpen the worn-down Crayolas and uncap those assorted magic markers, as the Legends of the Lower East Side coloring book is available sooner than initially thought. Just in time for your holiday shopping spree, in fact. One-third of the collective brain behind the project, Clayton Patterson, informs us that a limited supply is ... ►more
FRONT DOOR BOOK photos are a summation of everything I have ever learned. The photos are taken in front of the door at 161 Essex Street, which leads into Clayton Hats, Clayton Gallery and the Outlaw Art Museum. This also happens to be the place I live. The front door represented two things for me: It was the Wall of Fame where I played host to many of the local graffiti ... ►more
ARABIC TATTOOS although Islam prohibits tattooing, there has been a surge in recent years of non-Muslims getting Arabic tattoos. From names converted from Latin to Arabic script, to words such as love and peace, the popularity of Arabic tattoos shows the extent of the impact that Arab-speaking cultures have made. "Arabic Tattoos" examine the cultural ... ►more
RESISTANCE collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human ... ►more
CAPTURED is the definitive anthology of New York’s underground cinema, in its creators’ own words. New York’s Lower East Side has been a fountain of creativity and art since the early 1950s, a free-wheeling bazaar of ideas and artists that has challenged and shaped mainstream culture. Captured tells the story of film and video in the LES and the East Village ... ►more
WILDSTYLE put together by Clayton Patterson and Jochen Auer. Featuring hundreds of photographs taken by Patterson and a handful of essays (in both English and German) written by tour participants, Wildstyle illustrates exactly how, given the focus and enough manpower, a ready-made subculture can be inflicted upon an unsuspecting continent. In a way ... ►more
INSIDE OUT The Art World of the Squats documents an exhibition (outdoor and indoor) curated by Alan Moore, Clayton Patterson and Laura Zelasnic about squatters on E. 13th Street in Manhattan October 15 - 22, 1994. Inside, the artists in question scheduled a multimedia exhibit including video and performance. There were events that accompanied the evenings including a special tour of historic sites in the East Village, etc. What has evolved is a study of a squat culture over the years, engendering a visual art that both expresses and transcends its material and social conditions. There are manifestos, press releases, posters all documented and many articles and essays about art of the homeless. Those of you familiar with the Rivington School, the Neoist connection, and squats throughout the world should add this highly charged subject to your collection. — Printed Matter, New York 1994
