In 1974, an ambitious young filmmaker named Linda Goode Bryant, only 23, opened up a space on West 57th Street, in Manhattan. She called it JAM—short for Just Above Midtown. It was to be a safe space, both as an art gallery and as a laboratory for artists of color. Throughout the eight years that JAM existed (first on 57th, then in Tribeca, and finally at 503 Broadway), it reverberated with energy. Attendees included the likes of David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, and Senga Nengudi, and together these talents made abstract work as well as radical video and performance art. This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to JAM, focuses on its artists and artworks. Archival material and artist interventions keep the former gallery’s experimental spirit alive. —Elena Clavarino