"This book brings together new texts written to accompany 79 exhibitions organized by Bob Nickas between 1984 and 2011. Nickas chose one work to represent the memory of each exhibition, and through this visual "lens" he reflects on his activity as a curator, offering many behind-the-scenes views to the art world of the 1980s and 90s, as well as intimate recollections of the artists he worked with, and the art works he encountered over the years. ... [details]
Invitation to a party on Abbie Hoffman's Lower East Side, New York, roof to benefit the legal defense of The Chicago 8 [which became the Chicago 7 after the case against Bobby Seale was declared a mistrial], held June 7th, [1969], from midnight until dawn. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 1 - 12, 1994. Curated and with text by Bruce Barber. Additional texts by Peter Dykhuis, Jessica Kerrin, Dennis Young, Garry Neill Kennedy, Gerald Ferguson, Iain Baxter, David Askevold and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. ... [details]
Fall 1987 issue of JOURNAL. "This issue of JOURNAL is a collaborative effort between thirteen contributing editors representing ten cities of nations in the United States and Western Europe. The works appearing in this issue were chosen by the contributing editors. ... [details]
Issue number six of the irregularly issued periodical "0 to 9" edited by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci. Contents include "Sketchbook Notes," by Jasper Johns; "Automatic Writing from my Movies," by Yvonne Rainer; "On Machines," by Alan Sondheim; "Dialogue Piece," by Lee Lozano; "State," by Steve Paxton; "Contacts/Contexts (Frame of Reference): Ten Pages of Reading Roget's Thesauraus (New York: St. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held July 2 - September 20, 1970. Curated, edited and with a brief text by Kynaston L. McShine. Dealers tend to claim that "first edition" copies of catalogue have one or more green foredges on one side of page-edges, stating thus there was a "second printing" with unprinted page-edges. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the inaugural iteration of the quinquennial exhibition "Greater New York" held February 27 - May 14, 2000. The exhibition marked the first curatorial collaboration between PS. ... [details]
A compendium of sixteen essays originally published in the media and visual arts journal "Afterimage." Edited by Grant H. Kester, editor of "Afterimage" from 1990 to 1995. Text by Grant H. Kesser, Maurice Berger, Richard Bolton, Ann Cvetkovich, Coco Fusco, Brian Goldfarb, Mable Haddock, Chiquita Mullins Lee, Ioannis Mookas, Darrell Moore, Lorraine O'Grady, Michael Renov, Martha Rosler, Patricia Thomson, David Trend, Charles A. ... [details]
Exceptionally important critical anthology of early writings on Minimal and Conceptual Art edited by Gregory Battcock. Essays "Systemic Painting," by Lawrence Alloway; "Sculpture as Architecture: New York Letter, 1966-67," by Michael Benedikt; "Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism," by Mel Bochner; "The Razed Sites of Carl Andre," by David Bourdon; "Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman," by Nicolas Calas; "Art and Objecthood," by Michael Fried; "Questions to Stella and Judd," by Bruce Glaser; "Two Exhibitions," by E. ... [details]
December 23, 1981 - January 5, 1982 issue of SoHo News. Issue edited by John Leese. Cover stories include: "Thigh Tech," John Lombardi on Pilobolus; "New Twist in Atlanta Murders," by Stanley Pinsley; "Tom Lehrer is My Father," by Richard Corliss; "Down and Out in London," by Mick Farren; "'Dreamgirls' Dreamboy," by Peter Occhiogrosso; "Underwear's Brief Lives," by Ann Magnuson; "Cranking Out," by Roy Blount, Jr. ... [details]