Rivington School

The school was located near the art clubs No Se No and A's where many artists would meet and where many music and poetry performances were held. The group is most noted for "massive junk sculpture installations on the Lower East Side," and other forms of metal public sculpture. Also a group of women artists have organized themselves as W.A.R.S. (Women Artists of the Rivington School).

Many public and guerilla sculpture spaces emerged from the Rivington School, most notably the Rivington Sculpture Garden, originally constructed on Rivington Street near Forsyth Street. Due to the non-permitted nature of the work, the Rivington Sculpture Garden was regularly knocked down by the city. Eventually it found a home at 6th Street, between Avenue B and Avenue C; and the Corragio Studio, more commonly known as "2B" or "The Garage", started by another early founder of the movement, Linus Coraggio. The name "2B" refers to its location at 2nd Street and Avenue B in the East Village of New York City, on which a condominium building now stands. The construction and destruction of the Rivington Sculpture Garden was documented by Monty Cantsin (aka Istvan Kantor) on the super8film ANTI CREDO.