CARLO McCORMICK

Survival Research Laboratories' renegade contraptions have descended on New York for a rare outing. GARAGE talked to their mad-scientist creator, Mark Pauline.

A comprehensive nostalgic trawl remembers, but doesn't quite reproduce, the freewheeling DIY spirit of an early-'80s downtown New York hub.

"This is my new sloppy style!" Kenny Scharf's new show at Jeffrey Deitch forms part of another exuberant multipartite return to New York by the prolific '80s downtown scenester.