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The Collins & Milazzo exhibitions were a series of art exhibitions curated by the team Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, mainly in New York in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. [1] [2]

From 1982 to 1984 the pair founded, edited and published Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory. [3] : 191  [4] [5] Drawing on their experience with the magazine, in 1984 Collins & Milazzo began working together as curators to transform the group show into a critical statement. [6] [7] Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a new generation of artists in the 1980s. [8] It was their exhibitions and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of Post-conceptual art that argued simultaneously against Neo-Expressionism and the Neo-pop Picture Theory work of The Pictures Generation. [9] [10] It was through this context that the work of many of the artists associated with Neo-Conceptualism (or what the critics reductively called Simulationism and Neo Geo) was first brought together. [11]

Selected Collins & Milazzo exhibitions

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