Rachel Feinstein, Jeff Koons, Juliana Huxtable, and More Attend the New Museum's Spring Gala

In 1954, when the poet-artist John Giorno was a freshman at Columbia College, he ventured all the way downtown to Sammy's Bowery Follies, the legendary bar on the then-destitute area below East Houston. It was there he encountered down-and-out alcoholics and junkies, burgeoning writers and artists, aging socialites and curious male escorts--and it was also there his literary course took shape. Soon after he moved to 222 Bowery Street, shacking up with Andy Warhol in the early '60s and playing lo...