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LUSH LIFE and Max Fish on the Lower East Side

A year after artist Dash Snow’s fatal overdose, Max Fish carries on as the headquarters of downtown art, and nine neighborhood galleries put on an explosive show based on Richard Price’s novel, Lush Life.

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Urban Art's MomentBy Rachel Wolff

Nine New York galleries have based a major exhibit on Lush Life, Richard Price’s bestselling novel, and the true crimes that happened on those streets.

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Max Fish, Lost At SeaBy Joshua David Stein

As art galleries spring up like wildflowers in the dingy concrete of lower Manhattan, Max Fish, the world-famous bar once home to artists of the Bowery zeitgeist, fights to stay afloat.

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