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Gallery 98 is for collectors and researchers. We specialize in announcement cards, posters, publications and other art ephemera from the 1960s–2000s.

Browse our selection of over 8,100 items of art ephemera dating from the 1960s to the early 2000s, grouped by artist, gallery, publication, and theme.

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  • May 8, 2025
    Curt Hoppe: The Hamptons Years, 1997 – 2002

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    We know the hyper-realist painter Curt Hoppe from his Downtown Portraits series. This newsletter focuses on an earlier phase of Hoppe’s career, the five years from 1997 to 2002 when his subject was the Hamptons.
  • May 1, 2025
    An Undervalued Category of Art Ephemera: Full-Page Artforum Advertisements Priced at $50

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    Art ephemera is primarily a by-product of advertising and promotion. At Gallery 98 our main focus is on exhibition announcement cards and gallery posters, but we also have an interest in the advertisements that galleries place in art magazines. For galleries wanting to advertise, Artforum, with its large international circulation,…
  • April 24, 2025
    ABC No Rio 45 Years: How The Real Estate Show Gave Birth to ABC No Rio

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    Only a few more days left to see ABC No Rio 45 Years, an exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation, (537 Broadway, 2nd Floor) that traces the unlikely story of a long-running, Lower East Side art space famous for both its art and adversarial politics.
  • Collecting COLAB: Ephemera, Photography & Multiples, 1978–1985

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    COLAB’s ever-changing nexus of thirty to sixty artists included many who later achieved individual fame, but the group’s real contribution was the philosophy of creative engagement it advanced through collective, do-it-yourself actions.
  • April 17, 2025
    Collaborative Projects Inc (aka Colab): An Artist Group From The 1980s

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    When the artist group Colab was founded in 1977 it was conceived more as a mutual aid society than as an art movement. Its premise was simple: create a legal non-profit so that artists can get access to government grants to finance group projects. Colab membership was open to any artist…
  • April 10, 2025
    ABC NO RIO 45 YEARS: The Emily Harvey Foundation, Opening April 10, 6-8pm

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    The retrospective exhibition ABC No Rio 45 Years at the Emily Harvey Foundation (537 Broadway, 2nd Floor) includes No Rio’s entire history with sections on the Colab period. No Rio has been run since the late-1990s by a collective of punks, anarchists, squatters and artists, and is now known internationally…
  • Andrew Castrucci & Bullet Space: A Lower East Side Art Squat, 1980s & ’90s

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    In the mid-1980s, as gentrification encroached on the East Village, the neighborhood’s eastern fringe remained a lawless landscape of abandoned buildings and rubble-strewn lots.
  • April 3, 2025
    Deitch Projects, 1996 – 2010: Art Ephemera Tells the Story

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    In the course of fourteen years in New York’s Soho arts’ district, Deitch Projects completely reconfigured people’s expectations about art. Its founder Jeffrey Deitch was already a well-known art advisor, curator and critic when in 1996 he decided to open his own gallery, where he remained committed to the populist and…
  • March 27, 2025
    New Additions to Our Poster Inventory: Serra, Rauschenberg, Beuys, Tunick, Kacere

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    Gallery 98 keeps adding new items to our inventory. Recently, we have been fortunate to acquire a collection of quality posters, some signed by the artists who created them. What makes for a top-tier poster? In addition to looking good when hanging on a wall, a poster should also have something interesting…
  • March 20, 2025
    New Additions: Signed Prints and Lithographs by Christo & Jeanne-Claude

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    While it was necessary to make many prints in order to generate the money needed to realize projects, Christo (1935 – 2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935 – 2009) stipulated that no additional editions be made after their deaths. The signed prints and lithographs that are available for sale here come from…
  • March 13, 2025
    The 1970s: When Art Could Be Anything Neke Carson Kept Pushing The Limits

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     It was an art world where originality was prized, and just about anything, in any media, could be considered art.  Carson soon established himself as one of the scene’s most extreme artists, a creator of unusual works and performances that even now, fifty years later, stand out for their originality.
  • The Strange World of Neke Carson: Early Works, 1970–85

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    This is a show filled with unusual masterpieces: psychologically-charged drawings that hint at impropriety; ephemera from guerrilla performances staged in Soho galleries without permission; the notorious rectal-realist paintings created with a paintbrush in his behind; and objects connected with ventures like Carson’s LaRocka Modeling Agency and LaRocka Nite Club (later…
  • March 6, 2025
    The Mudd Club’s Creative Women: Edit deAk’s Dubbed in Glamour, The Kitchen, 1980

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    Art writer Edit deAk was a regular at the Mudd Club, and Dubbed in Glamour, a three-night “extravaganza” of performances, music, film and slide shows, was her attempt to bring the creativity of the nightlife scene into a more mainstream art setting.
  • February 28, 2025
    How Art Resurrected An Abandoned Tribeca: The Story of the Fine Arts Building, 1975 – 1977

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    There is more to the story of 105 Hudson, however, than its role in the gentrification of TriBeCa. For a brief period in the mid-70s it was the key venue where one could experience the radical changes that influenced the development of art in the late 1970s and 80s. Three…
  • February 20, 2025
    The Rivington School Sculpture Garden, 1983 – 1987: Photographs by Toyo Tsuchiya

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    Created over a two-year period in an abandoned lot on the Lower East Side, the Rivington School Sculpture Garden was a chaotic collection of metal scraps welded together and reaching up to 20 feet high. It was the work of multiple artists, but to call it a collaboration is too…
  • The Rivington School, 1983–95: Linus Coraggio, Toyo Tsuchiya

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    In 1985, No Se No artists took over the empty lot on the corner of Rivington and Forsyth, transforming it into a crammed, junkyard-like Sculpture Garden that would become the Rivington School’s best-known manifestation.
  • February 13, 2025
    Walter Robinson (1950 – 2025): Remembering His Early Years Through Ephemera

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    The sudden passing of Walter Robinson last weekend caused quite a stir on social media. More than just a successful artist and art writer, the engaging and long active Robinson was a point of connection for several generations of downtown artists. He literally knew everyone. …
  • February 6, 2025
    Art History / Black History Month: Ephemera from the Studio Museum in Harlem

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    Although there were earlier museums devoted to African American culture, the creation of the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1968 had special significance. In part this was due to its Harlem location, but it was also on account of its emphasis on art rather than history.
  • January 30, 2025
    Text and Word Art: Explore Our Inventory By Theme

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    While words appear in the work of Cubist, Surrealist and other early 20th century artists, it wasn’t until the latter half of the century with the rise of Pop and Conceptual art, that words and text became a common motif of art. For those interested in this kind of work,…
  • January 22, 2025
    Portraits of Artists & Art Dealers: A Popular Category of Art Ephemera

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    If you want to own just one item of art ephemera, a good choice might be a gallery invitation featuring a portrait of your favorite artist. This type of card has long been used as a way to advertise exhibitions, especially if the artist is well-known or has a distinctive…
  • January 17, 2025
    Mike Malloy: An Ethical Dilemma Becomes a Controversial Work of Art, 1972

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    Gallery goers entered a space similar to a voting booth where they encountered a metal box containing a live ant. Their dilemma:  Should they push a button and kill the ant, or should they allow the ant to live?…
  • January 9, 2025
    Remembering SoHo: Art Ephemera From The Neighborhood’s First Galleries

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    While uptown galleries in wealthy neighborhoods could be intimidating to some, the SoHo galleries with their clean, open spaces seemed welcoming. The appreciation of art, an activity previously reserved for the enjoyment of the elite, now became a popular pastime enjoyed by large, diverse audiences.
  • Roger Lannes de Montebello (1908–1986): A 40-Year Quest for 3-D Photography

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    Although Philippe de Montebello, the former Metropolitan Museum director is well-known, few people have heard about his father Roger de Montebello and his life-long creative obsession with three-dimensional photography.
  • December 31, 2024
    Gallery 98 Introduces Short Videos: Colette – Roger de Montebello – M. Henry Jones – Sam Wagstaff

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    As we move into 2025, Gallery 98 intends to keep things moving by incorporating new formats in our social media efforts. Earlier this year we introduced short videos for use on TikTok, and as Instagram reels. Given Gallery 98’s ambition to present the history of art and culture in the 1970s and…
  • December 19, 2024
    The Year in Review: Our Favorite 2024 Newsletters

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    Gallery 98 is primarily a site for purchasing vintage art ephemera, but it is also intended for researchers wanting to learn more about the art world of the 1970s to 1990s. Each week we send out an email newsletter that highlights and contextualizes important additions to our inventory. Here are seven of…
  • December 12, 2024
    $50 Holiday Suggestions – Keith Haring, Jane Dickson, Andy Warhol, Mike Kelley, Comme des Garcons, Rineke Dijkstra

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    You’ll find some of our “$50 Holiday Suggestions” below. Go to our Ephemera Page to see the full collection.
  • December 3, 2024
    Everybody At The Bar Gets Tipsy: SX-70 Polaroids Taken in Amsterdam (NL), 1980

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    Bettie Ringma and Marc H Miller Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980. Bilingual (English and Dutch). Hardcover. 216 pages. Published by Lecturis (NL). 2023. All books ordered before Christmas will be signed by Miller with a memorial inscription for Ringma, who died in 2018.
  • November 29, 2024
    Revisiting Graffiti’s Heyday: Looking Back at Prized Ephemera

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    The exhibition “Above Ground: The Martin Wong Graffiti Collection” at the Museum of the City of New York has reminded us of the large quantities of top-tier graffiti-related ephemera that have passed through Gallery 98 over the years.
  • November 21, 2024
    Kiki Smith — Happy Winter: Holiday Photos Sent to Friends

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    The holiday season is a time to reach out to friends.  Most people are content to send greeting cards created by companies like Hallmark, but artist Kiki Smith has for many years reconnected with friends by sending photographs of her own art. Gallery 98 has recently obtained ten of these…
  • November 14, 2024
    The Legendary FAST, 1982: Basquiat, Haring, Hambleton, Wojnarowicz

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    Fast, the group exhibition at the Alexander Milliken Gallery, from June 11 to July 15, 1982, is now remembered primarily for its inclusion of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s skull painting (Untitled 1982), which later fetched $110,497,500 at a 2017 auction at Sotheby’s and remains the most expensive of all of Basquiat’s works.
  • November 7, 2024
    Search Our Inventory by Theme: You Don’t Have To Be An Art Aficionado To Like Our Ephemera

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    People have many reasons to be interested in art ephemera — a type of collectible that also has the advantage of being small, easy to store, and modestly priced. Many collectors follow specific artists, but others just appreciate catchy images that they can casually display on a bookcase or coffee…
  • October 31, 2024
    Art Ephemera & Art History: For Collectors and Researchers

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    For researchers and scholars, Gallery 98 provides free and easy access to hard-to-find, primary documents like gallery announcement cards, posters, catalogues and magazine advertisements.  Collectors of art ephemera will be pleased with the breadth and richness of Gallery 98’s holdings, and the many ways you can search for items.
  • October 24, 2024
    Collaborative Projects Inc (aka Colab): A 1980s Artist Group and The Rise of Cultural Activism

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    When the artist group Colab was founded in 1978 it was conceived more as a mutual aid society than as an art movement. Colab can be credited with helping to re-direct artworld priorities towards themes of inclusion and social engagement.  Because many women artists were part of Colab, feminist ideas were…
  • October 17, 2024
    What is an “A More Store?” – Artists Take Control of Their Own Marketing, 1980-1983

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    “A More Stores” (as the COLAB stores were called) became yearly events with sympathetic galleries providing artists with the necessary retail space.  In 1982, the idea went global when COLAB members Stefan Eins and Jenny Holzer set up a Fashion Moda Store at Documenta 7, the international art fair in Germany.  Keith Haring took the idea a…
  • October 10, 2024
    Early Keith Haring Ephemera: Xerox – Book – Poster – Sticker

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    In addition to making the subway chalk drawings that quickly won him fame, Haring also promoted his artistic vision by handing out xeroxes, buttons, posters and stickers featuring his ever-expanding repertoire of images.
  • Keith Haring Ephemera, 1979–1990

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    For Keith Haring the line separating fine art and ephemera was thin. His meteoritic career was marked by an unrelenting succession of works cutting across every medium and category of art, but his approach to making art was remarkably consistent whether he was making a large outdoor mural, a commercial…
  • October 3, 2024
    Back in Stock – East Village Eye: The Hip Hop Issues and Other Rarities

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    At one point, Gallery 98 had a near complete collection of the East Village Eye. Many of the most popular of these issues are now back in stock. Gallery 98 has recently been able to re-stock some of the rarest and most sought-after issues of the East Village Eye, an independent, D.I.Y.
  • September 26, 2024
    Four Galleries of the 1980s: Fun Gallery – Semaphore – 303 – International With Monument

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    Gallery 98 spotlights four 1980s galleries with exceptional exhibition records. Of the four, 303 Gallery, which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, is the only one to have survived the decade. The history of these groundbreaking galleries can be tracked through the art ephemera they produced for each of their exhibitions.
  • September 19, 2024
    ABC No Rio Dinero: Ephemera from the Gallery’s First Five Years

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    Gallery 98 has always been particularly strong in 1970’s and 80’s art ephemera from downtown NYC.  Featured below are items from ABC No Rio’s first five years. This was the time when the gallery was affiliated with the artist group COLAB, and was central to an evolving art world that put a premium on art connected to social and…
  • September 12, 2024
    What a Year: The 1982/83 Art Season – ART/new york: A Video Magazine on Art

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    This promotional mailer for Paul Tschinkel’s Art/new york, A Video Magazine on Art is a reminder of how dynamic the contemporary art scene was in the 1980s. The portable video camera was still a novelty and artists were eager to see how they and their art looked on television.  A new generation of…
  • September 5, 2024
    Art Science Technology: Art Ephemera From Our Inventory

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    With the beginning this week of the 2024-2025 art season, one topic sure to be of interest is the connection between art, science and technology. We have here spontaneously selected items from our inventory that show some of the various ways in which art and technology have intermixed. We have…
  • August 29, 2024
    Food for Thought: Art Ephemera That Gets You Thinking

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    The items that have been selected for this week’s newsletter all fit into that category: each one highlights a still relevant thought-provoking subject related to art, art world politics, and life.
  • August 22, 2024
    Amos Poe’s No Wave Film The Foreigner, Photos by Fernando Natalici, 1978

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    Rarely screened today, The Foreigner lives on primarily through the excellent on-set photographs taken by Fernando Natalici to publicize the film. Gallery 98 has a number of vintage resin-coated prints made from the original negatives by Natalici in the early 1990s when The Foreigner was first released as a VHS video. All prints are signed and annotated by Natalici.
  • No Wave and Independent Film

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    The No Wave and Independent films produced in downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s are an intriguing hybrid art form that intermingles music, fashion, performance and visual art.
  • August 16, 2024
    New York Nightclubs 1980s: Art, Nightlife and Club Ephemera

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    In the 1980s culture-loving New Yorkers not only attended gallery openings, theater events and movies, but also participated in New York’s flourishing nightclub scene. While music and dancing were the main attraction, clubs also hosted art exhibitions, performances, fashion, film and video. During these years, almost every gallery opening, film…
  • August 8, 2024
    Curt Hoppe’s Downtown Portraits at Howl! Happening: Last Chance – Closing this Sunday, August 11

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    Hoppe will be at Howl! Happening this Sunday, August 11, at 3 PM, to sign copies of the catalog for Downtown Portraits. Copies of the 100-page catalogue with essays by Marc H Miller, Carlo McCormick, and Walter Robinson, are also available for purchase through the Howl online store.
  • August 1, 2024
    Miracle on Rivington Street: Groundbreaking Heralds a New Building for a Historic Art Space

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    The groundbreaking at the site of the proposed new ABC No Rio arts center. From the article “How the Anarchists at ABC No Rio Got the City to Build Them an Arts Center on the Lower East Side.” From the online publication Hell Gate (owned and…
  • July 25, 2024
    “I Can’t Imagine Ever Wanting To Be White”

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    Daniel J Martinez, “I Can’t Ever Imagine Wanting To Be White”, Metal Button, Whitney Biennial, 1993. Most of the buttons distributed at the Whitney Museum included only fragments of Martinez’s message. This is one of the rare examples that included the complete phrase. The writing…
  • July 19, 2024
    Politics Politics Politics: Art Ephemera From Our Inventory

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    These days it’s hard to think about anything besides politics. Here are some items from Gallery 98’s inventory that illustrate the ways in which art ephemera and politics have been linked in the past. Back in the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan was the art world’s bête noir, and many of…
  • July 10, 2024
    Curt Hoppe — Downtown Portraits Revisited: Opening Thursday July 11

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    Five years after they were first publicly exhibited, Curt Hoppe’s Downtown Portraits (all painted between 2010 and 2019) feel very different from how they felt before. While this collection of 25 larger-than-life, acrylic on canvas portraits will continue to be perceived by most viewers as a celebration of downtown culture in the 1970s,…
  • July 4, 2024
    Beauty – Worldly Pleasures – Time – Death: R.I.P. Audrey Flack (1931 – 2024)

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    We were sorry to hear last week about the passing of Audrey Flack (1931-2024), one of the pioneers of photorealist painting.
  • June 27, 2024
    The Origins of Gallery 98: Marc H. Miller and 98 Bowery

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    Gallery 98 is now a stand-alone online entity offering a full range of art ephemera from the 1960s through the first years of the 21st Century. However, when the gallery first went online around twelve years ago it was simply a “store” designed to offer objects connected to the website 98 Bowery,…
  • June 20, 2024
    Art Publications Worthy of Note: Ellsworth Kelly, Max’s Kansas City, Remembering 9/11

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    You’ll find here uncommon rare items from our inventory of vintage art publications. In the 1960s one of the favorite hangouts for NYC artists was the bar and restaurant Max’s Kansas City where owner Mickey Ruskin was famous for trading credit for art. A list of items sold at auction in…
  • June 13, 2024
    Lyle Ashton Harris: The 1990s Roots of Today’s Social Discourse

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    What makes for a collectible gallery announcement card? The key quality is a powerful iconic image by a well-known artist that evokes the concerns of the particular time the exhibition took place. Lyle Ashton Harris’ 1997 invitation card clearly fits the bill with its compelling picture of two sexually ambiguous black youths from his White Face Series. It perfectly…
  • June 6, 2024
    THE 1982 – 1983 ART SEASON ART/new york: A Video Magazine on Art

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    ART/new york: A Video Magazine on Art, The 1982 – 1983 Art Season, Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Brice Marden, Lee Krasner, Julian Schnabel, Robert Rauschenberg, 1983. Folded card. Size: 10.5 x 12.25 inches This promotional mailer for Paul Tschinkel’s Art/new york, A…
  • May 30, 2024
    A Book About Colab (And Related Activities)

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    Anyone studying the art of the late 1970s and 1980s will soon encounter the artist group Collaborative Projects Inc., best known simply as Colab. Established as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978, Colab’s original purpose was to provide artists with direct access to newly available government grants. But the group soon…
  • Cara Perlman: Finger-Paint Portraits, Tin Pan Alley, 1981–82

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    Perlman’s portraits, executed with a painting method typically used by children, fit broadly into the 1980s wave of neo-expressionism but they go way beyond that context.
  • May 23, 2024
    Who is Sam Wagstaff?: Anne MacDonald, Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe

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    At the heart of Gallery 98’s online exhibition of letters and ephemera from the estate of art patron Anne MacDonald (1942 – 2018), is the legendary figure Sam Wagstaff, an early mentor of MacDonald, who later became famous as a collector of photography, and as the lover and supporter of…
  • May 16, 2024
    Visit Our New Online Exhibition: Anne MacDonald, Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe

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    Gallery 98 has acquired a collection of letters, gallery cards and books from the estate of Anne MacDonald. All of the items connect to Sam Wagstaff, a collector of photography, and to his partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. Objects from this collection (along with a few from our inventory) are now featured in the…
  • May 9, 2024
    No Cameras Allowed: Let’s Talk About Courtroom Illustration

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    It appears that the art of courtroom illustration may have declined since its high point in the early 1970s when the Watergate trials were must-see television, and cameras were universally prohibited in America’s courthouses.
  • Since cameras were banned from courtrooms, news outlets depended on professional sketch artists like Freda Reiter for visuals. When Reiter was assigned the Watergate burglary trial, in 1973, she had no idea that she would be spending the better part of two years in Washington.

    Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter, 1973–75

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    To provide sufficient visuals for the substantial airtime allotted to the story each night, Reiter made multiple sketches a day: close-up portraits, as well as wide-angle views of the courtroom incorporating as many as 28 figures.
  • May 2, 2024
    Anne MacDonald & Shift Magazine: Mapplethorpe, Acker, Wojnarowicz

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    Anne MacDonald was an enthusiastic promoter of experimental artists advancing new forms of art-making and innovative ways to expand art audiences. This newsletter focuses on her magazine Shift, that published 15 issues from 1987 to 1993. …
  • April 25, 2024
    Roger de Montebello (1908 – 1996): An Artist’s Obsessive Quest for 3-D Photography

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    We are reposting this newsletter in response to the success of our short video (posted below) about Roger de Montebello, which recently was viewed 120,000 times and received 17,000 likes on TikTok.
  • April 16, 2024
    Sunday, April 21, 2:30pm: Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980

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    THIS COMING SUNDAY, April 21st at 2:30pm. Meet Gallery 98’s Marc H Miller at NYU Bobst Library, where he will be presenting a book featuring the photographs that he and Bettie Ringma took in Amsterdam, 1980. The editor of the book, Leonor Faber-Jonker, will also be participating.
  • April 15, 2024
    Sensation: Controversy at the Brooklyn Museum, 1999

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    From our newsletter archives — Originally published April 1, 2021. New York Post, “Dung Ho! Retired teacher defaces infamous painting”, Newspaper, Friday December 17, 1999. Dennis Heiner, a retired school teacher, defaced Chris Ofili’s painting, The Holy Virgin Mary, part of the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Ofili’s painting combined elephant dung…
  • April 5, 2024
    Vintage Art Posters: John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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    Posters inexpensively printed on offset presses have always been popular with art enthusiasts. Most of these posters were created by galleries and museums to advertise exhibitions. Some, on the other hand, were designed specifically to be sold in museum shops and poster stores as an affordable alternative to signed…
  • April 1, 2024
    Exhibitions in Context: Gallery Cards with Press Releases and Price Lists

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    Collectors of art ephemera usually favor cards connected to their favorite artists or to themes of special interest. Displayed on a shelf, or hanging on a wall in a small frame, vintage cards and flyers can either evoke past memories or present interests. Some cards might also have historic value…
  • March 21, 2024
    Gallery Cards, Posters, Other Art Ephemera

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    One of the easiest ways to sort through the 7,312 items currently listed on the Gallery 98 website is to go to our Artists Page. Here hundreds of artists are listed alphabetically with links that will take you to pages showing all our holdings related to that particular artist.
  • March 7, 2024
    Downtown Independent Films: Posters and Flyers, 1970s & 1980s

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    While few of these films were commercial successes, they provide a glimpse of the passions that fueled the East Village art scene during a creative highpoint. These low-budget, Super-8 productions embody the period’s do-it-yourself ethos, as well as, the fusion of art, music and club culture that animated the downtown…
  • March 14, 2024
    Richard Prince: Books, Catalogues and Gallery Cards

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    Gallery 98 is fortunate to have recently acquired a substantial collection of catalogues and books by Richard Prince. Below you will find a small selection of these publications, as well as some of Prince’s gallery cards that were already in our inventory.  What emerges is a mini-portrait of Prince, one of the most innovative,…
  • February 29, 2024
    Stefan Eins: Crowbar and Pulley, 1974 – Two Ready-Made Art Objects Inspired by Wonder

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    Born and raised in Austria, Eins came to NYC in 1967, and settled into a small storefront in Soho in 1972 when it was still a deserted manufacturing district.  When art galleries began moving into the area, Eins hid his bed behind a screen, and turned his live-in studio into a D.I.Y. exhibition…
  • Stefan Eins: the Enigma Behind 3 Mercer Street and Fashion Moda, 1970–80

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    As the founder of two idiosyncratic, do-it-yourself art spaces, Stefan Eins played a central role in shaking up the insular, overly-intellectualized art world of the 1970s in favor of a more socially-engaged, multi-cultural art with broader public appeal. …
  • February 22, 2024
    Portraits of Artists: Gagosian Invitation Cards, 1992 – 1993

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    The cards featured here date from the early 1990s when Gagosian mostly exhibited older established male artists. They all include images of artists in their studios, emphasizing their fame, and the drama and romance of art making.
  • February 15, 2024
    Luxury Art Ephemera: Gagosian – Beverly Hills, New York, London, Rome

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    The dramatic expansion of art as an upscale commodity in the 2000s is directly reflected in art ephemera. Leading the trend was the Gagosian Gallery whose multiple venues in the US and Europe exhibited some of the most commercially successful artists.
  • February 9, 2024
    The Blues Aesthetic (1989): Looking Deeper at African American Art

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    As we searched our inventory for something special for Black History Month, the catalogue for Richard Powell’s 1989 exhibition “The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism” provided the necessary inspiration. Gallery 98 has assembled a collection of related ephemera.
  • February 1, 2024
    The ARTIES: Awards for Performance Artists, 1986

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    The First (And Only) Annual Arties, 1986. Organized by Franklin Furnace, Awards for Performance Artists, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, and others, Cover Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe.
  • January 27, 2024
    The Rise of Alternative Spaces in the 1970s and 1980s

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    The rapid growth of the city’s non-profit art spaces was rooted in a shortage of galleries and other exhibition venues. But there was also an emerging political awareness that some groups were being systematically excluded from mainstream art. Fortuitously, newly available government funding for the arts happily coincided with a…
  • January 19, 2024
    Who Are Your Favorite Artists? Ephemera Sorted by Artist

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    Every art announcement card is unique.  Each promotes a specific exhibition taking place at a particular place and time. An important decision is made about which image to include: A work in the exhibition? A detail of a work? Or maybe a portrait of the artist? The fun of collecting these cards lies in…
  • Colette: On the Streets and in the Clubs, 1972–1985

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    Colette worked without inhibition. Acting out an inner-world of fantasies she began making photographic self-portraits, creating soft fabric environments in which she was often a crucial living presence, and exhibiting self-referential hybrid works that combined sculpture, painting, and photography.
  • January 12, 2024
    Search Our Inventory By Themes: Over 7,000 Art Ephemera Items Now Online

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    There are many reasons to be interested in art ephemera — a type of collectible that has the advantage of being small, easy to store, and modestly priced. Many collectors follow specific artists, while others appreciate catchy images that they can casually display on a bookcase or coffee tape.
  • January 4, 2024
    William Pope.L’s Unknown History

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    Remembering performance artist William Pope.L (1955 – 2023) who passed last week at the age of 68.
  • January 2, 2024
    The Theoretical Girls: Women Artists of The Pictures Generation

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    The 1988 announcement card from a Metro Pictures exhibition featuring eleven successful women artists illustrates the gender diversification that was slowly taking hold in the art world in the 1980s. This demographic shift was especially noticeable amongst the artists associated with the then still unnamed “Pictures Generation” art movement which…
  • December 21, 2023
    Looking Back at The Year in Review: Favorite Newsletters in 2023

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    See all of Gallery 98’s newsletters on our Newsletter Archive page A lot has happened at Gallery 98 over the last year. Most significantly, we have introduced a redesigned website that not only looks and functions better, but also includes a cart that makes purchasing…
  • December 15, 2023
    Holiday Ideas: Faith Ringgold, Philip Glass, Keith Haring, others

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    There are many reasons to treasure art ephemera. It can be an item of art historical significance; maybe it’s an announcement card for a favorite artist; or perhaps it touches on a theme that’s personally important to you. All of Gallery 98’s holiday suggestions fall into one or more of these categories.
  • December 7, 2023
    Last Call Before Christmas: Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980

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    Selling Polaroids is a picture book for many audiences. Drinkers and dive-bar aficionados will certainly be pleased. But it is also for fans of Amsterdam and the libertine spirit that the city continues to embody today.  Mostly though, it is a book celebrating the freewheeling lifestyle that artists enjoyed in the late 1970s and early 80s, a…
  • November 29, 2023
    Alice Denney (1922 – 2023): Shaking Things Up in Boring Old Washington, D.C.

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    Alice Denney enjoyed nothing more than causing a ruckus by exhibiting challenging new art in “boring old  Washington.” We first met in 1974 when I moved to Washington for a year, and art-world acquaintances suggested I contact her. Alice loved action — giving parties, collecting art by young artists, and…
  • November 28, 2023
    Photocopy Machines: Xerox Flyers, Zines, and Other Art Ephemera

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    Last week’s opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines (closing March 31, 2024) is a reminder of the important role that the photocopy machine played in the creation of new modes of art and art ephemera. While the technology used in copy machines dates back to…
  • November 16, 2023
    ODDS AND ENDS: Art Ephemera From Our Inventory

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    This week’s newsletter features an eclectic group of items. The artists created in a range of styles — expressionism, pop, no wave, cartoon satire, and photo journalism. There is also a wide range in what we identify as art ephemera, including familiar formats like announcement cards and press releases, as well as artist books, artist-designed advertisements, an…
  • November 2, 2023
    A Collection of Ephemera From The Texas Gallery: Houston as a Center for New Art in the 1970s and 80s

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    Thanks in part to our new high-visibility website, Gallery 98 is increasingly being approached by artists and galleries who want their history to be part of our ever-expanding collection of art ephemera. Recently, we were fortunate to obtain a large collection of announcement cards from the Texas Gallery, courtesy of its principal owner Fredericka…
  • October 26, 2023
    Four Stories in Art Ephemera

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    There is no shortage of treasures buried in Gallery 98’s extensive inventory of close to 7,000 items.  Each one of these four items captures a different moment and direction in art. All have stories to tell. Richard Lippold, Sculpture for Four Seasons Restaurant, Signed Card, 1961 Richard Lippold, The Four Seasons,…
  • October 20, 2023
    A Collectible for Art History Buffs

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    Whether you’re interested in a specific artist, an art movement like graffiti, or how art reflects political and social issues, you can quickly find what you are looking for on Gallery 98’s swift new website. Our inventory of art ephemera keeps growing — currently there are 6,961 items posted, and we…
  • October 12, 2023
    Jenny Holzer & The Artist Group COLAB, 1978 – 1983: Posters, Stickers, and The Black Book

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    Gallery 98 is fortunate to have recently acquired a collection of early Jenny Holzer items from 1979-82, a fertile period when Holzer first developed important aspects of her art. These were also the years when Holzer was an active participant in Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB), an artist’s group, that like Holzer, shared an interest in…
  • October 6, 2023
    Rediscover Art Through Vintage Ephemera: Over 6,800 Items Posted – More Items Posted Daily

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    For those interested in the history of art, the cards, posters and catalogs created in conjunction with past exhibitions provide a way to relive the art experience as it originally unfolded. These vintage collectibles not only provide documentation of specific art-world events, they also contextualize art in the social and commercial structure that gives art its fullest…
  • September 28, 2023
    AREA The Legendary Nightclub: Cards and Invitations, 1983 – 1987

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    New York’s nightclub scene in the 1970s and 1980s is legendary today for its creativity, as well, its hedonism and debauchery. Studio 54 (1977), the Mudd Club (1978), Club 57 (1979), Danceteria (1979), and the Limelight (1983) were the early clubs that set the tone. AREA opened in September 1983 and was part of a second wave, yet…
  • September 21, 2023
    Jean-Michel Basquiat & AREA Nightclub: Invitations Capture the Connection, 1985

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    Jean-Michel Basquiat and AREA owner Eric Goode from the book Area: 1983–1987 authored by Eric Goode & Jennifer Goode, photograph by Valerie Shaff, published by Abrams, 2013 For the talented and prolific Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1985 shaped up to be a banner year. In February, his portrait was on the cover of The…
  • A Survey of Jean-Michel Basquiat Ephemera: 1981–88

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    Similar to the way paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat have played a key role in the frenzy surrounding contemporary high-end art auctions, the same is happening in the more limited market of vintage contemporary art ephemera. The cards, posters and publications that feature Basquiat and chart the important moments in his…
  • September 6, 2023
    A Public Sculpture/An Easy Target: Richard Serra & David Hammons

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    Every example of art ephemera tells a story, and sometimes, when two items connect, the story can get very interesting. That’s certainly the case with two items currently in Gallery 98’s inventory:  a poster featuring a photo of Richard Serra’s public sculpture TWU (the initials for the Transit Workers Union), and a copy of Franklin Furnaces’ magazine Flue with…
  • August 9, 2023
    Fashion Moda: A South Bronx Outpost

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    When Stefan Eins opened the art space Fashion Moda in the South Bronx in 1978, he hoped that the unlikely setting, one of the country’s most devastated neighborhoods, would stir the creativity of his Downtown peers.
  • August 18, 2023
    Psychedelic Solution: A Counterculture Fine Arts Gallery, 1986–1995

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    During its ten-year run as a gallery from 1986–1995, Psychedelic Solution provided a populist alternative to art styles found in other galleries. It specialized in works by Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb and the many other accomplished artists who can be credited with pioneering what is now known as psychedelic…
  • August 25, 2023
    Three Tasteful Vintage Posters

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    Expanding our inventory of vintage posters by top artists from the last decades of the 20th Century is an ongoing process here at Gallery 98. We are currently photographing and processing a large collection of posters. As a taste of what is to come, here are three favorites. Each is…
  • August 2, 2023
    “Art Gangster” Unmasked

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    For several years, Gallery 98 has been puzzled by a piece of mail art in our inventory, originally sent to the offices of Artforum in 1974. The piece consists of the front page of the LA Times of February 28, 1974, with a lead story on Tony Shafrazi’s vandalism of Pablo Picasso’s…
  • Andy Warhol Ephemera: Cards, Posters, Magazines, Photos (before Feb. 22, 1987)

    Collections
    Gallery 98 has been sorting through our Andy Warhol ephemera with the goal of dividing it into two online collections. This first of these features items from before the artist’s death in February 1987. The second looks at posthumous Warhol ephemera from the time of his death to the…
  • July 26, 2023
    Dubbed in Glamour: Creative Women of Downtown NYC, 1980

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    Some art ephemera ages especially well. One example is this vintage 1980 poster for “Dubbed in Glamour” advertising three nights of performances at the Kitchen in Soho.
  • July 6, 2023
    T-Shirts From The Fashion Moda Store at Documenta 7, 1982

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    In 1982 the idea of the DIY artist store went mainstream when the upscale German exhibition documenta 7 asked Stefan Eins & Jenny Holzer to create a Fashion Moda Store.
  • May 18, 2023
    The Magazine As Artwork: Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Jenny Holzer

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    Gallery 98 showcases selected issues of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) magazine from the 1990s, featuring cover designs and picture spreads created by artists Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince.
  • April 20, 2023
    Vintage Art Posters: Rauschenberg, Lady Pink, Goldin, Parrino, Kiefer

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    Highlights include a rare collection of collaborative posters from COLAB’s Talk is Cheap exhibition and Lady Pink’s poster from Your House is Mine. Visit Gallery 98’s Poster Page for additional items.
  • March 3, 2023
    Rising Up Against the Odds: Krasner, Schapiro, Spero, Holzer, Sherman, Goldin

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    In honor of Women’s History Month, Gallery 98 showcases six women artists who have overcome the odds and risen to the top of the art world.
  • February 20, 2023
    Marcel Duchamp: Homages, Variations, Imitations

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    This collection of art ephemera showcases Duchamp’s influence on artists such as Mike Bidlo, Hannah Wilke, Elaine Sturtevant, and others.
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Curt Hoppe, Richard Hambleton, SIGNED Archival Digital Photograph on Somerset Velvet Paper, 2011

• Artist Portraits • Curt Hoppe • Richard Hambleton
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Curt Hoppe, Arturo Vega, Photo Printed with archival ink on Canvas, SIGNED by Hoppe, 2010

• Arturo Vega • Curt Hoppe • The Ramones
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Curt Hoppe, Homemade Ice Cream, Photograph (C-Print) with paint strokes along the edge, 2000

• Curt Hoppe
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Curt Hoppe, The Clincher, Photograph (C-Print) with paint strokes along the edge, 2002

• Curt Hoppe
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Wim Delvoye, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery (Florida), Artforum Advertisement, 2006

• Artforum Advertisements • Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery • Wim Delvoye

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Gerhard Richter, Kleiner Akt, Zwirner & Wirth, Artforum Advertisement, 2000

• Artforum Advertisements • Gerhard Richter • Zwirner & Wirth Gallery

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Blacks & Blacksmiths, Group Exhibition with David Hammons, Ray Kelly, Ken Hiratsuka, Phase, AOne, Bullet Space & Rivington School, Poster, 1989

• Bullet Space • David Hammons • Ken Hiratsuka • Phase 2 • Ray Kelly • The Rivington School • Thom Corn

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Unidentified Artist, Nearly 50% of Your Tax Dollars Go For Reagan’s Military Budget, Folded Offset Print, Mid 1980s

• Political • Ronald Reagan
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100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the Lower East Side, Group Exhibition Curated by Anton Van Dalen with Martin Wong, David Wojanrowicz, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, PPOW, Folded Card with Handwritten Note by Van Dalen, 1988

• Anton van Dalen • David Wojnarowicz • Keith Haring • Lee Quiñones • Martin Wong • Political • PPOW
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Tseng Kwong Chi, Klaus Nomi, Strange Party, Tri-Fold Card, Danceteria, 1982

• Danceteria • Klaus Nomi • Nightclubs • Tseng Kwong Chi

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COLAB Artists Portraits by Tom Warren, SIGNED Photo Portfolio with 12 Digital Prints, 1981-1984

• Alan W Moore • Becky Howland • Bobby G (Robert Goldman) • Christof Kohlhoffer • Christy Rupp • Dick Miller • Jane Dickson • John Morton • Joseph Nechvatal • Portfolio • Robin Winters • Seton Smith • Tom Otterness • Tom Warren • Walter Robinson
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Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Collaboration Paintings (1985), Large Folded Card for the Exhibition Collaboration Paintings, Van de Weghe Fine Art Gallery, 2008

• Andy Warhol • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Van de Weghe Fine Art Gallery

$150

Carolee Schneemann, Memorial for Her Cat “Kitsch” (1956 – 1975), Offset Lithograph Poster, c. 1975

• Animals • Carolee Schneemann

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Gas Station, Look Back, Look Forward, Ward-Nasse Gallery, Card, 1989

• Gas Station • Julius Klein
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Ken Hiratsuka, Sculpted Sidewalk, Life Cafe, Flyer, 1983

• Julius Klein • Ken Hiratsuka • Public Art • The Life Cafe
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Redtape Magazine, “Art Damaged” Release Party at Danceteria, with Greer Lankton, David Wojnarowicz, Illustration by Michael Roman, Card, 1984

• Danceteria • David Wojnarowicz • Greer Lankton • Michael Roman • Redtape Magazine
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Curt Hoppe’s East Hampton, Poster Featuring His Original Oil Painting, SIGNED, 1998

• Curt Hoppe • Hyperrealism/Photorealism • Signed

$350

Curt Hoppe, Card, Dreesen’s Market, 1999

• Curt Hoppe • Hyperrealism/Photorealism

$100

Art of Found Objects, with Keith Haring, LA2, Fred (FAB 5 Freddy) Brathwaite, Justen Lada, Michael Hafftka, SIGNED by Keith Haring and LA2, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, Poster, 1983

• Fab Five Freddy • Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante • Justen Ladda • Keith Haring • LA2 • Michael Hafftka • Posters & Prints • Signed

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Susan Rothenberg, Willard Gallery, Poster, 1976

• Animals • Susan Rothenberg • Willard Gallery
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Susan Rothenberg, Willard Gallery, Poster, 1977

• Posters & Prints • Susan Rothenberg • Willard Gallery
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Curt Hoppe, His World, Card, Galerie Select Ltd. (East Hampton), 1997

• Artist Portraits • Curt Hoppe • Galerie Select Ltd • Hyperrealism/Photorealism

$125

Rebecca Howland, Money Bag, Ink Drawing (1980) With an Inscription by Howland from 1991

• Becky Howland
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Kenny Scharf, Limited Edition T-Shirt created for Club 57 Exhibition at MoMA, 2017

• Club 57 • Kenny Scharf • T-Shirts
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ArtBall Cards, with Donald Judd, Mark Rothko, Marisol, Jackson Pollock, Created by Don Celender, 20 Cards, 1971

• Don Celender • Donald Judd • Jackson Pollock • Marisol • Mark Rothko

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AIDS Treatment Project 1993/94, Giorno Poetry Systems, Large Foldout, 1994

• AIDS • David Wojnarowicz • John Giorno
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Curt Hoppe, Paintings and Watercolors, Poster, Erotics Gallery, 1982

• Curt Hoppe
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The High Heels News, Flaming #7, 26-Page Zine, 1997

• LGBTQ • Zines
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Cookie Mueller, How To Get Rid of Pimples, with Photographs by David Armstrong, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, 77-Page Book, 1984

• Cookie Mueller • David Armstrong • Nan Goldin • Peter Hujar
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Patti Smith, Wool Gathering, Hanuman Books, SIGNED 80-Page Book, 1992

• Music Ephemera • Patti Smith • Signed • Signed Publications

$350

Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven, Cover Photo by Julie Linn, Telegraph Books, SIGNED 47-Page Book, 1972

• Music Ephemera • Patti Smith • Signed • Signed Publications

$250

Martin Wong, Two Polaroid Photos and Xerox of Form Filled Out by Wong, c. 1986

• Martin Wong

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Martin Wong, Chinatown USA, PPOW, Card, 1993

• Asian/Asian American Art • Gallery Exhibition Cards • Martin Wong • PPOW

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Martin Wong, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, Card, 1988

• Frank Bernarducci Gallery • Gallery Exhibition Cards • Martin Wong

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Yves Klein, Leap Into The Void, Photo by Harry Shunk, Gallery Yves Arman, Poster, 1980s

• Gallery Yves Arman • New Posters • Yves Klein
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Richard Serra, Philip Glass, Concert, Leo Castelli Gallery, Poster, 1972

• Leo Castelli Gallery • Minimalism in Music • Music Ephemera • New Posters • Philip Glass • Richard Serra

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Spencer Tunick, Reaction Zone, Also with Video Collaboration with Chris Habib and Sonic Youth, I-20 Gallery, Poster, 2000

• Nudes/Pin-Ups • Sonic Youth • Spencer Tunick

$350

Joseph Beuys, Difesa Della Natura (Defense of Nature), Galleria Lucrezia De Domizio, SIGNED Poster, 1984

• Galleria Lucrezia De Domizio • Joseph Beuys • Land Art/Ecological Art • New Posters • Posters & Prints • Signed
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Robert Rauschenberg, A Day with Rauschenberg for Art Teachers working with Learning Disabled Students The Lab School (Washington DC), SIGNED Poster, 1997

• New Posters • Posters & Prints • Robert Rauschenberg • Signed
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Christo & Jeanne-Claude, The Gates (Central Park, NYC) (1980), SIGNED Print, 1986

• Christo & Jeanne-Claude

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Christo, Wrapped Monument to Leonardo (Project for Piazza Della Scalo Milan), SIGNED and Numbered (478/999) Lithograph, 1975

• Christo & Jeanne-Claude

$500

Kazuko Miyamoto, String Works, A.I.R. Gallery, Card, 1975

• A.I.R. Gallery • Asian/Asian American Art • Kazuko Miyamoto • Women
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Gary Indiana, Phantoms of Louisiana, Performing Garage, Card, c. 1981

• Cookie Mueller • Gary Indiana • Performing Garage • The Performing Garage

$100

Whitney Museum, MUƎƧUM, Card, 1973

• Edit DeAk • New York City • Walter Robinson • Whitney Museum
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A Swell Soiree, Midnight Reading with Terence Sellers, Pyramid, Folded Flyer, c. 1982

• Pyramid • Terence Sellers
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Edit deAk, Self-Portrait, Xerox with Note to Ray Johnson, c. 1975

• Edit DeAk • Ray Johnson

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Edit deAk, New Cinema, New Wave, New York, Image of Anne Deon, Centre d’art Contemporain Genève (Switzerland), Xerox Flyer, c. 1980

• Edit DeAk

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Joseph Beuys, Multiples, SIGNED Poster, Galerie Ilverich (Belgium), 1981

• Galerie Ilverich • Joseph Beuys • Signed

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