"The sequel of the 2014 bestseller ''(Curating) From A to Z,'' this book extends Jens Hoffmann''s investigation of curatorial practice. Employing a diarist style, he completes his personal curatorial alphabet with a similar transparency, and the same idiosyncratic character revealed in many of his exhibitions. ... [details]
"Lexicon is a facsimile cloth edition of an antiquarian Latin-Greek dictionary which the internationally celebrated South African artist William Kentridge (born 1954) has embellished with black ink drawings of what might seem at first to be animal silhouettes. ... [details]
Three volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta IX held in Kassel, Germany, June 13 - September 9, 1992. Texts by Jan Hoet, Denys Zacharopoulos, Bart de Baere, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Claudia Herstatt, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacques Roubaud, Cornelius Castoriadis, Heiner Müller, Paul Robbrecht, Hilde Daem. ... [details]
Spring 1992 issue of Discourse dedicated to happenings, body, spectacle and virtual reality. Guest edited by Valie Export and Herbert Blau. Essays include "The Prospect Before Us," by Herbert Blau; Persona, Proto-Performance, Politics: A Preface," by Valie Export; "The Spectacle of the Anti-Spectacle: Happenings and the Situationist International," by Jon Erickson; "Viennese Actionism and the Vienna Group: The Austrian Avant-Garde after 1945," by Ferdinand Schmatz; "Survival Ethos and Destruction Art," by Kristine Stiles; "The Rope Trick," by David Crane; "Performance Art / Life Art / Mediafication," by Gerhard Johann Lischka; "What is Left of Performance Art? Autopsy of a Function; Birth of a Genre," by Josette Féral; "Binary Terror and Feminist Performance: Reading Both Ways," by Vivian M. ... [details]
Issue number six of six issues published between 1958 and 1965. Includes lengthily transcript of a two part panel discussion held by the Eighth-Street Club on February 17, 1965 and March 17, 1965. Edited by Natalie Edgar, Isobel Grossman, John McMahon. ... [details]
Vintage photocopy poster / flyer published by the Ratsketter Wing of Youth International Party (YIP) '73 advertising their leadership at the "Inhogural Celebration" on January 20, 1973 in Washington, DC, as a result of "Dick's [Richard Nixon] recent acts of War [that] prove he's actually a gigantic mutant rat. ... [details]
Letter issued by Norma Becker and Dave Dellinger on March 16, 1968 encouraging readers to attend and contribute to the anti-war protest organized on Saturday, April 27, 1968 by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee. [details]
Vintage photocopy press release published March 12, 1970 announcing Citywide Anti-Poverty Committee on Housing "is mobilizing low-come tenants from all over the city to converge on City Hall March 18 for the rent control hearings. ... [details]
Double sided flyer encouraging people to assemble at City Hall Park in New York City to march against either the verdict or a contempt charge against the Conspiracy 8 as well as marching against other acts of political repression. ... [details]
Press release issued by Devan Shumway, with statement by Clark MacGregor, campaign director, published October 16, 1972 in response to "the political elitist movement known as McGovernism is about to repudiated overwhelmingly by the American people. ... [details]
