PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum presents the exhibit The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-84 starting on Saturday, May 27. In the mid-1970s, a distinctive “downtown attitude” toward life and art took hold in lower Manhattan. Artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers began creating work that was at once populist and subversive, utopian and raw, antic and angry. Influenced by the Beats and New York School artists as well as hippies, Marxists, and anarchists, downtown artists began pushing the limits of traditional artistic categories — visual artists were also writers; writers were developing performance pieces; performers were incorporating videos into their work; and everyone was in a band. Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library at New York University and curated by Paper Magazine Senior Editor, Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Show is the first substantial retrospective of these critically important years. The exhibition includes more than 500 paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos and photographs, as well as more than 100 archival items relating to the downtown scene. Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmush, Christian Marclay, Cindy Sherman, Nam June Paik, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer and many others.