The Real Estate Show was a short-term occupation art exhibition held on New Year's Day (January 1, 1980) in a vacant city-owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City[1][2] by New York artists' group Colab. As stated in “The Real Estate Show Manifesto or Statement of Intent”,[3] the subject of the exhibition was resistance to abusive landlord speculation within the real estate industry.[4]
- ^ Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities) Printed Matter, Inc, 2016. pp. 100-119
- ^ "Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld" by Alan W. Moore, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
- ^ [1] “The Real Estate Show Manifesto or Statement of Intent”
- ^ [2] The Real Estate Show Manifesto or Statement of Intent Committee for the Real Estate Show, 1980