So it is my eyes; I’m seeing these things. But it’s a two-way street and two kinds of pictures.” Sandler’s New York of the late 70s and 80s is a cyclone of faces, furs and filth.

Just Above Midtown, also known as JAM, was an art gallery and Black space that welcomed artists and visitors of many generations and races in New York ... on 57th Street. MOMA was on 53rd, and ...