For a short time he attended the Art Students' League, where he studied with George Grosz and produced figurative work inspired by his wartime memories and of his life in New York, especially the dance halls around 14th Street.
[2] Over the course of his life, he produced thousands of drawings, etchings, paintings, collages, assemblages, and objects, often with pornographic or Holocaust-related imagery, as well as the novel House of Anita[3] (released in a 2016 edition with texts and commentary by Terence Sellers), a large memoir entitled "In Riga" (published in 2019), and scores of poetry, collected in the volume Geschriebigtes - Gedichtigtes: NO!art in Buchenwald (2003) [4] In 1960, with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, Lurie took over leadership of the March Gallery (95 East 10th Street, New York, NY) from Elaine de Kooning.
Because of the content of Lurie's work, which often features the word "NO," and the 1963 NO Show at the Gallery: Gertrude Stein (24 East 81 Street, New York, NY), the group would become known as the NO!art movement.
"[citation needed] One of the movement's earliest champions was the Italian art dealer, Arturo Schwarz.
[7] After the loss of Dietmar Kirves, the headquartes Berlin is represented by LST (Lars Schubert) in Vacarisses, Spain.