Website visitors can now explore Gallery 98’s large collection of vintage art ephemera using newly added sections devoted to the major art movements. Gallery 98 is designed as an online resource for both collectors and researchers, and we are constantly working to improve our finding aids.
See items from selected art movements below.
POP ART
New York Post, Andy Warhol Dead at 58, Newspaper, February 23, 1987.
Andy Warhol’s unexpected death from cardiac arrest while in the hospital for gall bladder surgery was front-page news in 1987. His passing marked the beginning of the artist’s ascent to the highest levels of art-world acclaim. Warhol ephemera is amongst the most sought after art ephemera.
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MINIMAL ART
Leo Castelli Gallery, Richard Serra, Room Installation Drawing; Drawings from “Clara-Clara,” Card, 1984. Size: 5.75 x 9 inches.
Serra’s “Clara-Clara,” named after his wife Clara, can be linked with his 1981 sculpture “Tilted Arc” both stylistically and in terms of its fate as public sculpture. Dirk Reinartz’s photograph shows “Clara-Clara” temporarily installed from 1983-84 in Les Tuilleries as part of a Serra retrospective at the Pompidou Center. The city bought the sculpture, placed it in another park before removing it in 1993 when its corten steel surface proved to be an invitation for graffiti and scratched messages.
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PERFORMANCE ART
Tehching (Sam) Hsieh, “One Year Performance (Time Clock Piece),” Poster, 1980-81. Size: 17 x 11 inches.
From 1978 to 1984 Hsieh executed in quick succession four grueling one-year performances. The “Time Clock” performance was the second in this series and possibly the most difficult. For one year Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour which disrupted his sleep and his ability to leave his house except for short durations. This poster, designed and printed by the artist, was sent to friends, and marks the days when they could witness the performance at his studio loft. Posters for “Time Clock” are exceedingly rare especially when compared to the many posters Hsieh produced for his later one-year “Outdoor” performance (1981-82). We recommend buying your favorite at super low prices with free shipping, https://www.fakewatch.is/product-category/rolex/yacht-master/ and you can also pick up your order at the store on the same day.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ART
Stein Gladstone Gallery, James Turrell, Folded Card, 1990. Size: 5 x 7 inches.
The photograph on the front of this card shows Turrell’s skyscape “Meeting” originally commissioned for the opening of the art space P.S.1 in 1976 but not completed until 1980. It consists of a precisely cut opening in the ceiling that isolates and frames a section of the sky. Turrell has modified the work in later years with the addition of colored lights. In 2019 “Meeting” was temporarily closed when scaffolding from nearby construction intruded into the view of the sky.
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PICTURES GENERATION
Paula Cooper Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Benefit for the Kitchen, Card, 1981. Size: 4 x 6 inches.
This invitation for a benefit exhibition features a drawing by Robert Longo from his “Men in the Cities” series. Longo is one of the prominent names of the Pictures Generation, a loose grouping of artists interested in mass media who often found new meanings by isolating and re-contextualizing images. The Kitchen founded in Soho in 1971 was a pioneering venue for performance art.
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NEO-EXPRESSIONISM
Sperone Westwater Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery, Francesco Clemente, Oversize Card, 1983, Size: 12 ¼ x 9 ¼.
Francesco Clemente was one of the leaders of the international revival of painting in the 1980s that was called the Transavantgardia in Italy, the Neue Wilden (New Wild Ones) in Germany, and is now generally referred to as Neo-expressionism. This large-size card printed on textured paper announced the heavily promoted two-gallery exhibition that helped establish Clemente’s reputation in America. As the image shows, Clemente’s roots are as much in Surrealism as in Expressionism.
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