Linus Coraggio talks Club 57, Adventures in the East Village and his Sculpture Work

Linus Coraggio and I met up to talk growing up on the Upper West Side, the Guinness Book of World Records, adventures in the East Village, Club 57, his sculpture work, surviving as an artist, making his own rules and getting ideas from dreams.

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More about Linus Corragio

1. Website: https://linuscoraggio.com/
2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linuscoraggio/
3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb8YU0BiBQSdB__DLzts01g06B-ueCK8E
4. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linuscoraggio

This is how you survive in NY as an artist according to New York Native and Artist Linus Corragio:

1. Keep making it
2. Keep documenting it
3. Keep showing it to other people, even if it is just your friends and family
4. Go to galleries and meet other artists
5. Try to bump into people
6. Having a physical portfolio is not a bad thing
7. Have cards that have your number on it and say you are an artist
8. Try to exchange contact information with people who are older than you, people who know more about the art scene, those that might have ideas for your work
9. Think outside of the box on where you can put your art (restaurants, and cafes are options to galleries
10. Have website and invest in it
11. Don’t give up.

Show Notes

1. Talking about West 100^th Street  
2. Renaissance of the Upper West Side by Nicholas Pileggi (from the June 30^, 1969 issue of New York Magazine.)
3. No street lamps? No trees?
4. How do you answer to “Let me get a ride on your bike?”
5. Toothpick Sculptures and Elmer’s Glue
6. The Guinness Book of World Records
7. World Land Speed records for Cars and Motorcycles
8. The current holder of the Outright World Land Speed Record is ThrustSSC, a twin turbofan jet-powered car which achieved 763.035 mph – 1227.985 km/h – over one mile in October 1997. This was the first supersonic record as it broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.016.
9. The Largest Toothpick Sculpture Guinness World Record
10. The Young Filmmakers on Rivington Street (Doesn’t Exist anymore)
11. The Cooper Union
12. Henry Brant space music
13. Henry Brant: Orbits (1979)- YouTube
14. Jump city
15. Pot
16. Psilocybin mushroom
17. Canal Street
18. Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY Purchase)
19. Flatbush, Brooklyn
20. New Yorkers ignore crazy, we see it all the time.
21. “Pre cellphones when your day was pretty existential…” Linus Coraggio
22. Breakdance Crews
23. Mudd Club
24. Images from the Mudd Club
25. Club 57
26. ‘Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983’
27. AVANT Street Art New York City, 1980-1984
28. 3-D Graffiti was created by Linus Coraggio
29. The Museum Of Modern Art MoMa
30. Fab Five Freddy
31. Volkswagen Bug
32. Tribeca
33. East village
34. Eat sushi, get fat.- Linus Coraggio
35. Socio-political Comments
36. Ronald Reagan
37. Leo Castelli
38. 420 West Broadway
39. “F*ck Leo Castelli, my art goes here.” – Linus Coraggio
40. Kids on Ave. D robbed Basquiat for his bike.
41. Alphaville (book) by Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett
42. A Beautiful Mind (film)
43. Reichmann Corporation
44. The Memory Chair Sculpture
45. Landline Phone Service
46. Got paid not to exhibit my art.
47. Gentrification
48. New York is becoming an anti-artist enclave of business and real estate.-Linus Coraggio
49. Rivington & Forsyth Street
50. Claiming space
51. Homeland Security
52. 9/11
53. Ave. B and 2^nd Street
54. Crowd-pleaser type of artist
55. Sculpture Garden Between Ave. B & Ave. C
56. Dot’s New York Said Episode- Growing Out of the Hood with Dot
57. DJ CherishTheLuv New York Said Episode- DJ CherishTheLuv shares her Incredible Story
58. 15 minutes of fame, I have 30 seconds there and 30 seconds there.
59. Struggling to pay the bills is a real artist experience.
60. The Village Voice
61. Who did 3-D art first?
62. Graffiti Writers-The 50 Greatest NYC Graffiti Artists by Complex
63. Burning Man
64. Digital Underground
65. If you like videos, here’s one of their…Same Song by Digital Underground
66. The city of rats
67. Anybody want to buy a grenade?
68. Washington Square Park
69. Characters of New York
70. The Harlem School of the Arts
71. 42^nd and 8^th – The Port Authority
72. Guardian Angel Mad Max
73. The Warriors (film)
74. The Warriors – Trailer
75. Injuries of an artist
76. I make my own rules. Just keep doing what you are doing. –Linus Coraggio
77. “I get my ideas from dreams.” –Linus Coraggio
78. Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
79. Dreams About Flying: Dream Meanings Explained by Wendy Gould, The Huffington Post

 

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