July 19, 2017

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  • July 26, 2017
    Popular Newsletters from Gallery 98
    Newsletter
    Gallery 98 has been sending out this weekly e-mail newsletter since 2013. The mailings are archived online at https://gallery98.org/news, going back to July 2015. Here are some highlights from the last year. A spotlight on Mike Glier’s compelling 1982 portrait of Jenny Holzer, part of his…

  • July 12, 2017
    The Art of ABC’s Watergate Coverage, 1974
    Newsletter
    In the absence of photographic documentation, ABC Television sent sketch artist Freda Reiter to cover the Watergate trials. Reiter didn’t only document the happenings in the courtroom, but also re-created the scenes of Nixon’s notorious tape-recorded conversations (to accompany ABC’s playback of the covert audiotapes).

  • July 6, 2017
    Watergate Courtroom Sketches: New Exhibition at Gallery 98
    Newsletter
    The resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in August 1974, and the prison sentences issued to many of his top aides in 1975, were vindications for those who hoped to see deception and criminality purged from the White House. As our current president faces similar allegations, Watergate has returned to…

  • June 21, 2017
    The Survival of ABC No Rio: 1980–Today
    Newsletter
    It’s a bit of a shock, walking by 156 Rivington Street and seeing a completely empty lot where, for more than 35 years, the alternative art space ABC No Rio had stood. No Rio’s quasi-accidental origin story dates back to 1980 and the “Real Estate Show,” illicitly organized by the…

  • June 14, 2017
    Inflammatory Portrait of Jenny Holzer by Mike Glier, 1983
    Newsletter
    It’s hard to imagine a better depiction of artist Jenny Holzer than this 1983 lithograph by her soon-to-be husband, Mike Glier, a fellow member in the artists’ group COLAB. Glier’s portrait is one in a series called “Calling Women,” intended to emphasize the assertiveness of its female subjects—a follow-up to his series “Crying Men.”…

  • June 7, 2017
    William Pope.L’s Unknown History
    Newsletter
    This week, the art world’s spotlight is on William Pope.L, the latest winner of the Bucksbaum Award, given to one participant in each Whitney Biennial. Pope.L’s contribution, “Claim (Whitney version),” consists of a small room covered inside and out with several thousand slices of rotting baloney, each decorated with a…

  • May 31, 2017
    98 Bowery Now on Instagram
    Newsletter
    Art and music enthusiasts of 1970s and 80s downtown New York should follow @OnlineGallery98 and @98Bowery on Instagram for vintage art, event announcements, and an autobiographical narrative…

  • May 24, 2017
    Six Art Announcements and Their Stories
    Newsletter
    The right piece of ephemera can spark an endless conversation about art history and art-world gossip. Gallery 98 has previously shown vintage pieces in the online exhibitions “The Night Time Is the Right Time: NYC Nightclub Ephemera, 1980s” and “40 Top Art…

  • May 17, 2017
    Basquiat Mania at New York Auction Houses
    Newsletter
    A request from Sotheby’s recently alerted Gallery 98 to the full slate of Basquiat auctions taking place in New York this week. To promote their star piece, an untitled 1982 canvas estimated at $60 million, the auction house was assembling an oversized newspaper catalogue, using content from Gallery 98 and…

  • May 10, 2017
    Barry Blinderman, Semaphore Gallery, and the End of the East Village, 1986
    Newsletter
    Though ephemera by definition is made without an eye to the future, its collectors treasure ephemera for its ability to call to mind forgotten history. Among a collection of ephemera recently acquired by Gallery 98, a scabrous piece of samizdat by artist Mike Cockrill attacks his former dealer Barry Blinderman…

  • May 4, 2017
    Newly Uncovered ’80s Ephemera: Hambleton, Haring, Wilke
    Newsletter
    Gallery 98 has recently acquired a large collection of gallery announcements, publications, and posters connected to New York’s 1980s downtown art scene. The collection comes from artist Franc Palaia, who was present for much of the era’s artistic excitement.

  • April 19, 2017
    Eighties Artists on Video: Basquiat, Goldin, Serra, Mapplethorpe
    Newsletter
    The 1981 video “New York/New Wave,” on continuous loop now through September in P.S. 1’s exhibition “A BIT OF MATTER: The MoMA PS1 Archives, 1976–2000,” serves as a reminder of the early period when art events were first documented on video.

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