Artwork of the 80's
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Robert Longo, Untitled (1983)

1983

CAM presents exhibitions of the work of John Moore, Andrew Topolski, Seymour Drumlevitch, and Michael Kessler. New additions to the collection include work by John Moore and Malcolm Morley.

Exhibitions of graffiti art are presented at Sidney Janis gallery in New York and in Rotterdam.

Writers Jean Baudrillard and Hal Foster publish seminal treatises on postmodern theory.

U.S. invades Grenada; overthrows Marxist regime there.

237 U.S. Marines are killed in a terrorist bombing in Beirut.

"Just Say No" is introduced as a motto to combat growing drug use in the US.