Area was about blowing people’s minds and doing things that were really interactive and crazy. When we did the Carnival theme, we had carnival rides. When we did Sports, we had a trampoline on the dance floor, and people would be so fucked up doing flips on the trampoline. It was insane. People refer to Area as an art club, but it was really a club about ideas, not about creating commodities, which the art world did.
Eric Goode in Anon/Basquiat
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Jean-Michel was the coolest motherfucker in the world. He’s expressionist, [and] what do expressionists do? They deal with injustice as their soul-searching richness in order to create incredible works of art, to harmonize the world, to make peace. In other words, it’s the antidote to all the atrocities of the world.
Michael Chow, ibid.
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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