KWY [Exhibition Poster]

René Bertholo, Lourdes Castro, Christo, José Escada, Costa Pinheiro, João Vieira, Gonçalo Duarte, Jan Voss

Large-scale poster published in conjunction with the KWY group's first exhibition held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes [S.N. Belas Artes], opening on December 20, 1960. KWY artists included René Bertholo, Lourdes Castro, Christo, José Escada, Costa Pinheiro, João Vieira, Gonçalo Duarte, and Jan Voss. ... [details]

New Forms - New Media II

Claes Oldenburg

Single sided flyer / announcement designed by Claes Oldenburg published in conjunction with opening of "New Forms - New Media II" held September 28, [1960]. This exhibition followed the exhibition "New Forms - New Media" held at Martha Jackson Gallery, June 6 - 24, 1960. ... [details]

Readings in Modern Poetry

Daisy Aldan, Anaïs Nin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire

Flyer / invitation published in conjunction with an evening of "Readings in Modern Poetry" held October 11, 1960. Presented in French and English by La Maison Française of New York University and read by Daisy Aldan and Anaïs Nin. ... [details]

Press Release Announcing the Publication of "Anthology of Beat Writing"

Seymour Krim, Sanford Beldon, Herbert Gold, Norman Podhoretz, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Barker, Chandler Brossard, Norman Mailer, John Clellon Holmes

Press release issued by Sanford Beldon of Gold Medal Books announcing the publication of "Anthology of Beat Writing" dated March 29, 1960. Anthology edited by Seymour Krim, with texts by Herbert Gold, Norman Podhoretz, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Barker, Chandler Brossard, Norman Mailer, John Clellon Holmes and others. [details]

The Twenty Second Season of The Poetry Center : Nineteen Sixty - Nineteen Sixty One : Readings By Distinguished Poets and Actors : Lectures : Poetry and Music : Recorded Poetry : The Craft of Poetry

Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, Richard Hugo, Joseph Langland, Claire McAllister, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Margaret Avison, Edward Dorn, Theodore Enslin, e.e. cummings, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hazel, David Ignatow, Diane Wakoski, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz

Catalogue published in conjunction with the twenty-second season of readings and lectures presented by The Poetry Center, New York City, October 1960 - May 1961. Readings by Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W. ... [details]

Postcard Invitation to a Poetry Reading by Jonathan Williams at the Gotham Book Mart

Jonathan Williams, Kenneth Patchen

Postcard invitation to a poetry reading by Jonathan Williams with a display of paintings and painted books by Kenneth Patchen at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, October 19, 1960. [details]

The Living Theatre Presents The Theatre of Change: Women of Trachis by Sophokles, A Version by Ezra Pound and The Marrying Maiden by Jackson Mac Low

Ezra Pound, Jackson Mac Low

Poster announcing performances of "Women of Trachis" by Sophokles, edited by Ezra Pound and "The Marrying Maiden" by Jackson Mac Low at The Living Theatre, opening June 9, 1960. Direction by Julian Beck and Judith Maling, designs by Beck, lighting by Nichola Cernovich. ... [details]

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 5 (Spring 1960)

P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. Matta, Harlod Rosenberg, Alfred Russell, Jon Schueler, Jack Tworkov, Robert Vaughan, David Young

Issue number five out of six issues, published between 1958 and 1965. Texts by P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. ... [details]

First Anniversary of The Living Theatre

Julian Beck, Judith Malina

Engraved invitation card from Julian Beck and Judith Malina requesting recipient's presence at a cocktail party celebrating the first anniversary of the opening of The Living Theatre on Wednesday, January 13, 1960. [details]