The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by art historian Prudence Peiffer

In the 1950s and 60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to a group of extraordinary, then-struggling artists: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman.

In her book, The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, art historian and critic Prudence Peiffer captures this particular time and place - a cobblestone street of dilapidated warehouses - that would serve as the unlikely site of eclectic and influential works of art and spark a singular moment of community and creativity. 

Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Director of Content at MoMA, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications.