John Gibson Gallery: The Early Years
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• Christo & Jeanne-Claude
• Dennis Oppenheim
• Gordon Matta-Clark
• John Gibson Gallery
• Vito Acconci
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Anton Perich’s NIGHT Magazine Studio 54, Club Culture and Art, 1978-79
CollectionsNIGHT was the creation of artist and photographer Anton Perich who, inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview, made the decision to publish his own magazine using his own money. … -
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Collecting COLAB: Ephemera, Photography & Multiples, 1978–1985
CollectionsCOLAB’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. -
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No Wave and Independent Film
CollectionsThe 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. -
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Andy Warhol Ephemera: Cards, Posters, Magazines, Photos (before Feb. 22, 1987)
CollectionsGallery 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… -
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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. -
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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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Photo Cut-Outs: M. Henry Jones’ Film Soul City, 1977–79
CollectionsThe emergence of digital photography during the last decade has provided a new perspective on photographs from the pre-digital era. The photographs that M. Henry Jones created in the late 1970s for the animated film Soul City have a special place in this story of technological change. -
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Andy Warhol Ephemera, Part 2: Posthumous Cards, Posters (after Feb. 22, 1987)
CollectionsThis collection features some of the announcement cards, posters and publications from after the artist’s death on February 22, 1987. Posthumous ephemera have an interesting story to tell. As successful as Warhol was in life, the full range of his creativity and prodigious production only emerged after his death. -
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AREA: Cards and Invites from the Legendary Nightclub, 1983–1986
CollectionsAREA became New York City’s top club in the mid-80s, with much of its success rooted in its popularity among artists, many of whom participated in the club’s ambitious program of creating new themes and décor every six weeks. -
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IGTimes: Urban Street Culture, 1984–1994
CollectionsAmong the underground publications of the 1970s and 80s IGTimes has the distinction of being the first periodical devoted to New York street and subway art. -
![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
CollectionsTo 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. -
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Anton Perich: Electric Brushstrokes, 1978–1989
CollectionsA childhood tinkerer and an aspiring inventor, Perich achieved success in 1977 by creating a machine that automatically produced a sequence of lines with an airbrush activated by a photocell reacting to the lights and darks of projected images.
