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| | The other side of the East Village exhibition |
 | | Artist Mark Kostabi, who first made his mark in the East Village in the heady 1980s, was less disappointed about being excluded from East Village USA, the New Museum of Contemporary Arts retrospective about the era, than he was about being shut out from the shows Dec. 9 opening. |
 | | Several other slighted artists also with a token presence in the show consider themselves pivotal figures in the edgy, rebellious East Village art scene that enjoyed a vibrant, albeit brief heyday that was cut short, in large part, by the impact of AIDS. |
 | | Kostabi, by his own admission, was very much an outsider in the East Village scene, and if the reason to exclude him and Prol was cliquish by nature, it does not answer Rhonda Zwillingers absence from the New Museums walls. |
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