The ‘Stuff' of a New York Legend, From Skateboards to $12,000 Sweaters
Hastreiter, now 73, has worn many hats over the years — artist, journalist, curator — but her passion for collecting has remained a constant. Now she has immortalized all her favorite objects, friends and stories in STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos (Damiani, $75).
'More than a memoir,' she writes, this book collects everything from a $12,000 sweater to a Jeff Koons dinner plate, stickers, jewelry and just about every category of art you can think of, resulting in a 'big chaotic archive' of a half-century's worth of New York culture.
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