'Essential reading' Guardian 'Elegant and incisive' Viv Albertine Downtown New York City in the mid-1970s was the perfect landscape for creative reinvention. At Max's Kansas City and CBGBs, in derelict lofts and underground clubs, a generation of visionary women artists is rewriting the rules of creativity, sexuality and power. No New York is the eye-opening story of the revolutionary No Wave art and music scene, from an era when true expression mattered more than money or fame. This is an uncompromising first-hand testimony of a movement of women artists creating work on an equal footing with the men, the fruits of which were some of the most striking of the era.