The October 1983 issue of the East Village Eye explores the burgeoning arts scene in New York’s East Village during the mid 80’s. Profiles of twenty rising East Village artists are featured, most notably David Wojnarowicz, Kiki Smith, and Richard Hambleton. Esteemed director Andrei Tarkovsky discusses the ideological framework of his films, and his impression of the United States. An interview with comedian Sandra Bernhard, star of Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film The King of Comedy, yields a refreshing insight into Bernhard’s interests and process. Influential painter Robert Colescott discusses his suite of paintings at Soho’s Razor Gallery, a humorous collection of works that manipulate race in classic scenes as a means of reevaluating “the lymph material within tradition, truth, and the heroic image”. The circumstances surrounding the death of graffiti artist Michael Stewart are investigated. An illustration from Rodney Alan Greenblat is featured as the centerfold. The issue’s cover features work from Richard Hambleton.