Martin Burgoyne, Jean Michel Basquiat & Madonna. Real Artists when the Lower East Side was really the Lower East Side with junk hole drug addicts, whores, filth and Puerto Rican Cheese Dong and you could have your throat slashed at any moment. EAT IT!!!
A great article on the legendary Area Nightclub in New York City which lasted from 1983-1987 - the brainchild of Eric Goode pictured above with Madonna in 1985.
From the New York Times Style Magazine - Full article HERE
This fabulous scan is from that recent OUT magazine. I love this photojournalistic shot - just Madonna being Madonna. This was in the summer of 1982. xo