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At this site, publisher Steve Mass, curator Diego Cortez, and singer Anya Philips opened the Mudd Club in a loft owned by artist Ross Bleckner. Named for Samuel Alexander Mudd, a doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the labyrinthine club became a major fixture in the city’s underground music and counterculture scene, from punk rock to new wave. Revolutionary for bringing together music and art with a gallery onsite, it drew regulars including up-and-coming artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and Klaus Nomi, while musicians including The Ramones, Frank Zappa, and The Talking Heads memorialized the club in song.
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