AREA: Cards and Invites from the Legendary Nightclub, 1983–1986
From the Collection
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• Dondi White
• Futura 2000 (Leonard McGurr)
• Jenny Holzer
• Nightclubs
• Public Art Fund
• Willi Smith
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• Andy Warhol
• AREA
• Fashion
• Greer Lankton
• John Sex
• Keith Haring
• Michael Halsbland
• Nightclubs
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IGTimes: Urban Street Culture, 1984–1994
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The Anomalous Baird Jones (1955–2008)
CollectionsFew people personify the free-wheeling, polymorphous spirit of fin-de-siècle downtown New York as well as the idiosyncratic curator, club party promoter, photographer, author, and celebrity gossip Baird Jones. -
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BLADE, King of Graffiti: Cards, Photographs, Drawings, Publications
CollectionsIn the words of curator Roger Gastman, “Before New York City made graffiti world famous, BLADE was one of the people who made it famous in New York.” BLADE (Steven Ogburn) was only fifteen years old when in 1972 he tagged his first train. By 1974 he was painting full… -
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A Survey of Jean-Michel Basquiat Ephemera: 1981–88
CollectionsSimilar 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… -
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East Village Eye, 1979–1987
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Fine Arts Photography, Ephemera From Light Gallery, 1971–1987
CollectionsThe rise of photography as an art collectible has largely taken place over the last fifty years and much credit can be given to Light Gallery (1971–87), the first gallery to exclusively represent “artist photographers.”… -
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Texas Gallery
CollectionsThanks 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… -
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Letters and Ephemera: Anne MacDonald, Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe
CollectionsThe connection between Anne MacDonald (1942 – 2018) and Sam Wagstaff (1921 – 1987) dates back to the early 1970s when she was on the Board of Trustees at the Detroit Institute of Art where he was a curator. Despite her title, MacDonald was still in her 20s and… -
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Guerrilla Girls: Feminist Street Posters, 1985–1991
CollectionsWhen the Guerrilla Girls began wheatpasting their first posters on walls in Soho and Tribeca in 1985 they introduced a provocative new type of politicized street art that had an almost immediate effect. Rooted in an era when women were increasingly conscious of widespread inequalities in America, the Guerrilla Girls… -
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Posthumous Basquiat: Art Ephemera From After August 12, 1988
CollectionsFor serious collectors of art ephemera one important consideration is that items date from when an artist is alive and working. There is a certain logic to this. The best art ephemera chronicles an artist’s career and for most artists very little of significance happens after their death. Jean-Michel Basquiat… -
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The Strange World of Neke Carson: Early Works, 1970–85
CollectionsThis 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… -
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Roger Lannes de Montebello (1908–1986): A 40-Year Quest for 3-D Photography
CollectionsAlthough 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.
