Gallery 98 is a site for collectors, 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 spotlights items in our inventory that connects to current events and new additions. Here are six of our most interesting newsletters from 2025.
Walter Robinson (1950 – February 9, 2025): His Early Years in Ephemera
The sudden passing of Walter Robinson 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.
First published February 13, 2025
Marcia Resnick (1950 – June 18, 2025): A Photographer’s Walk On The Wild Side
Marcia Resnick was a prodigy who quickly established herself as a conceptual artist and later as a portraitist documenting the punk music scene. Drugs would sideline her in the 1990s but over the last decade she successfully reclaimed her place as one of the key artists of the 1970s and 80s. Her traveling retrospective Marcia Resnick: As It Is Or Could (2023), gave her work the full art history treatment by bringing together for the first time her conceptual and portrait work.
Cards, Posters, Periodicals, Advertising Items, and Other Collectible Art Ephemera, 1970s – 90s
There are so many historically interesting items among the 8,500 examples of art ephemera posted on Gallery 98 that it is sometimes difficult to decide what to feature in our weekly newsletter. This assortment of favorites was chosen to appeal to a broad range of tastes and interests. Each of these items has a story to tell.
Art Patronage to the Extreme: Heiner Friedrich, Philippa de Menil & The Dia Foundation
This week’s newsletter is about an episode of art patronage when tens of millions of dollars were spent to support and preserve works of art that did not conform to conventional categories of collecting. The story begins in 1973, when the German gallerist Heiner Friedrich moves to New York, then travels to Texas to view the Rothko Chapel, where he meets the wealthy de Menil family who had commissioned the work.
First published July 24, 2025
Curt Hoppe’s “Working Photographs” For His Hamptons Paintings, 1997 – 2002
From 1997 – 2002, Curt Hoppe enjoyed an ideal situation painting views of the Hamptons, one of New York’s most scenic and affluent summer retreats. This was a productive period for Hoppe, who over five-years produced close to 100 paintings, all of which sold for substantial prices. These photos, the basis for the paintings, not only capture the beauty of the Hamptons, they also reveal the artist’s fascinating working process.
First published August 21, 2025
Photography in the Pre-Digital Era: Two Artists Confront the Limits of Analog Technology
This Gallery 98 newsletter spotlights two artists, M. Henry Jones (1957 – 2022) and Roger Lannes de Montebello (1908 – 1986), caught on the wrong side of this digital divide. In the case of both artists, their creative ambitions exceeded the capabilities of the analog technology that was available to them in the 1970s and 80s.
First published October 9, 2025
As the year comes to an end, Gallery 98 extends holiday greetings to all our customers and online visitors. Special thanks go to Amani Marshall, the jack-of-all-trades who keeps everything running, and to Cole Berry-Miller who has been providing us with promotional videos about items in our collection. We also are grateful for the work of Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen whose expert editing keeps our newsletters grammatical and, we hope, entertaining to read.
