Bill Beirne recalls how Dieter Froese introduced him to the overnight inflation and casual destruction of Sol LeWitt works, and describes encountering a woman on a twenty-foot ladder at the Clocktower Gallery...

Sculptor Richard Nonas describes how he, Alanna Heiss, and a group of fearless artists turned abandoned, rundown basements into exhibition spaces, and wrote the early history of what would become the alternative spaces movement.

The two-part conversation, A Slice of Pie with Alanna Heiss, took place November 11, 2009, at apexart between Clocktower founder Alanna Heiss, artist Nancy Hwang and curator Sandra Skurvida, curator of AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence.

Ellen Phelan discusses her early years as a painter in New York, and her encounters with Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, John Baldessari and, more importantly (as we would later find out), Joel Shapiro. A bit of our history at the Clocktower.

Gallerist Jeffrey Deitch's memories of the birth of the Clocktower, and its immediate influence on the creation of new, alternative spaces around the world.