Goode Times

Eric Goode came to New York to study art, but after founding Area, the notorious disco with changing monthly installations —soon to be the subject of a book by Goode's sister Jennifer and scene-maker Jenny Lumet —the club was all the art he had time for. After the launch of the more sedate restaurant-club M.K., Goode set up a studio on its top floor and returned to his own work: assemblages of bizarre images and objects such as a Brahman bull or houseflies, set into glass boxes, which he recently showed at SoHo's Bess Cutler Gallery. "I wanted to make stuff that didn't look like art—something beautiful and ugly at the same time, like you came upon it in an attic instead of a gallery." With yet another restaurant due to open in Manhattan's East Village this spring, perhaps Goode's art will once again be on display.

CRAIG BROMBERG