The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

$38.99 at de Young Museum.

In this exquisite biography, an art historian and critic captures a singular moment of community and creativity in mid-twentieth-century New York City, bringing to life a group of struggling artists and the place they all called home, an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan, Coenties Slip. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower edge of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a…