Downtown Arts Scene

{{Short description|Artistic community in New York City}}

The Downtown Arts Scene was an artistic community based in New York City's Downtown area.{{Cite web |title=Downtown Arts Scene |website=NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project |url=https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/theme/downtown-arts-scene/ |access-date=2022-12-05}}{{Cite magazine |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=2017-02-03 |title=The Invention of the Downtown Art Scene |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/the-invention-of-the-downtown-art-scene |access-date=2022-12-05 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}

Members of the Scene included Alvin Baltrop, Jackie Curtis, Jasper Johns, Trisha Brown and Philip Glass.{{Cite web |last=Searle |first=Adrian |date=2011-03-02 |title=Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/02/pioneers-downtown-scene-spero-brown |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}

The Downtown arts scene used photocopying as a rapid way for artists to share and distribute images.{{Cite web |last=Eichhorn |first=Kate |date=2021-02-23 |title=How the Copy Machine Gave Rise to New York's Downtown Arts Scene |url=https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-copy-machine-gave-rise-to-new-yorks-downtown-arts-scene/ |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=The MIT Press Reader |language=en}}

The Downtown Arts Scene is generally considered to have reached its end in the 1980s.{{Cite web |title=The End of the Downtown Scene |url=https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-end-of-the-downtown-scene |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=The Gotham Center for New York City History |date=2 July 2020 |language=en-US}}