MK and Linda Salerno marry. The painter and photographer, who grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as an only child of Southern Italian immigrants, had moved to Soho in the early 1970s and became deeply connected to the downtown artist community. In her large-scale paintings, she often worked with found images embedded in layers of paint and experimented with inventive techniques. She began showing her work at East Village galleries at the beginning of the 1980s, and in 1983 she was included in a large exhibit of new painting from the US that traveled to Museums in Bologna, Ravenna and Rimini. The Drawing Center in New York also showed her work early on. LINK. lindasalerno.com Their wedding at the Kunsthalle is a semi-private event that includes several performances. Artists from New York and Switzerland join close friends at a grand party on all floors of the building.