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- When Allan Bridge started The Apology Line, he wanted to help people unburden themselves from past regret – a feeling he was all too familiar with. The struggling artist had the idea to created a hotline people could share their wrongdoings after stealing art supplies he couldn’t afford when he moved to New York – a secret that ate away at him.
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Jan 17, 2021 · The man who called himself Mr. Apology knew more than 100,000 of them thanks to his Apology Line, which let people call in and anonymously confess their misdeeds.
Allan Bridge (February 14, 1945 – August 5, 1995) was an American conceptual artist best known for his creation in 1980 of the confessional phone system known as the Apology Line. He went by the pseudonym Mr. Apology (a label which has since been adopted by an advice columnist) and used new technology of the time, an answering machine, to ...
When Allan Bridge started The Apology Line, he wanted to help people unburden themselves from past regret – a feeling he was all too familiar with. The struggling artist had the idea to created a hotline people could share their wrongdoings after stealing art supplies he couldn’t afford when he moved to New York – a secret that ate away at him.
- Hannah Paine
Mar 3, 2021 · In New York City, from 1980 until the mid-nineties, an artist named Allan Bridge, known to the public only as Mr. Apology, conducted a social experiment and art project from his Manhattan...
- Sarah Larson
The Apology LIne. On October 20, 1980, the artist Allan Bridge put up posters around New York City stating: "ATTENTION CRIMINALS, BLUE COLLAR, WHITE COLLAR. You have wronged people, it is to people that you must apologize, not to the state, not to God. Get your misdeeds off your chest!
Aug 19, 2013 · Late one night in the fall of 1980, Allan Bridge started illicitly slapping up eye-catching posters around TriBeCa — then a rough-edged neighborhood where artists predominated — encouraging...
Jan 25, 2021 · New series recalls a 1980s art project that invited anonymous callers to reveal their sins — with ethically complex results. Marissa Bridge and her late husband Allan, who recorded confessions...
