Poem by John Giorno in the form of a press release issued in conjunction with Ecology Day, April 22, 1970. Poem indexes a series of actions including mailing a "dead rat," "dead fish," "bottle of beef blood," "dead mice," "beef liver," "roaches," "cow's heart," "calf's brain," "beef lungs," and "pig's feet" to prominent members of the government including Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon, Judge Julius Hoffman, Judge John Murtagh, Mayor John Lindsay, Attorney General John Mitchell, Dr. ... [details]
Flyer / announcement published to promote events held between 13th and 14th Streets and 6th and 5th Avenues, New York City, on April 18, 1969. Participating artists included Vito Hannibal Acconci, Terence Anderson, Arakawa, Gregory Battcock, Matthew Benedict, Michael Brownstein, Scott Burton, James Lee Byars, Rosemarie Castoro, Eduardo Costa, Bill Creston, Larry Fagin, Madeline Gins, John Giorno, Bobbi Gormley, Tom Gormley, Dan Graham, Katherine Greef, Stephen Kaltenbach, Joseph Kosuth, Leandro Katz, Alcides Lanzy, Lucy Lippard, Rosemary Mayer, Ben Patterson, John Perreault, Lil Picard, Adrian Piper, H Alexander Roberts, Marjorie Strider, Mr. ... [details]
11th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival presented by Charlotte Moorman held November 16, 1974 at Shea Stadium, Flushing, Queens. Participating artists included Allen Ginsberg, Arman, John Cage, Christo, John Giorno, Allan Kaprow, Beryl Korot, Anne Tardos, Bill Viola, and many, many others. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published by Exit Art in conjunction with show held at Franklin Furnace, New York, February 10 - March 6, 1982. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman. Text and art by Vito Acconci, Gempei Akasegawa, Louis Aragon, Scott Billingsley, Marc Blane, Gunther Brus, Barry Bryant, Chris Burden, Papo Colo, Bogomir Ecker, William Farley, John Fekner, Lou Forgione, John Giorno, GAAG, John Halpern, Abbie Hoffman, Sam Hsieh, Jay Jaroslov, Komar & Melamid, George Maciunas, Gordon Matta Clark, Ann Messner, Richard Mock, Peter Monnig, Charlotte Moorman, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, People's Flag Show, Jan Van Ray, and Real Estate Show. ... [details]
Pamphlet / folded poster published in conjunction with a reconstruction of the 1982 show Illegal America, redefined and held March 3 - April 7, 1990. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo. Artists included Vito Acconci, Gempei Akasegawa, Louis Aragon, Art Workers Coalition, Gunther Brus, Chris Burden, Gordon Matta Clark, Dias, Bogomir Ecker, William Farley, John Fekner, GAAG, John Giorno, Greenpeace, David Hammons, Abbie Hoffman, Tehching Hsieh, Jay Jaroslov, Komar & Melamid, George Maciunas, Ann Messner, Richard Mock/Cesar Chavez, Peter Monnig, Charlotte Moorman, Otto Muehl, Paulette Nenner, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, Guillermo Gomez Peña, People's Flag Show, Real Estate Show, Carolee Schneemann, Dread Scott, Jack Smith, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. ... [details]
Two-sided poster for Festival held July 20, 1980 at Passenger Ship Terminal, 55th Street & Hudson River, New York City. Huge roster of artists includes Ay-O, Christo, Barbara Ess, Simone Forti, John Giorno, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Nancy Holt, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Les Levine, Jackson Mac Low, Ann Magnuson, Nam June Pair, Michael Smith, and many many others. [details]
Poster for the Sixth Annual New York Festival of the Avant Garde which took the form of a parade down Central Park West in New York City on September 14, 1968, from 7pm to 10pm. Organized by Charlotte Moorman. ... [details]
Complete set of four announcement cards published in conjunction with the "Language" exhibitions at Dwan Gallery: "Language to be looked at and / or things to be read [aka : Language I]," opening June 3, 1967, including artists Carl Andre, Arakawa, Walter De Maria, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Filippo Marinetti, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Francis Picabia, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson. ... [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]
Vinyl 33-1/3 LP record issued as the exhibition catalogue for show held November 1 - December 14, 1969. "Shortly after its opening, the Museum of Contemporary Art planned an exhibition to record the trend, incipient then and pervasive today, toward conceptualization of art. ... [details]