Gallery 98 has recently acquired a collection of announcement cards and posters from the iconic gallery Deitch Projects, which ran from 1996–2010. Artists include Dash Snow, Dan Colen, Swoon, and others.

In the 1980s, New York’s nightclub scene was not just about music, but also art exhibitions, performance art, and experimental film. We offer here nightclub invitations connected to Studio 54, Mudd Club, Club 57, Danceteria, AREA, Limelight, Palladium, Cat Club, and Tunnel.

Fanny Adams, active from 1992–1993, took inspiration from the Guerrilla Girls. Both of these women’s art collectives used poster campaigns to highlight gender discrimination in the art world.

This piece of paper with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s signature, address, and phone number from 1983 tells the story of his collaboration with artist Franc Palaia.

An ink-on-paper cartoon by Anthony Haden-Guest, a silkscreen on cloth by Kiki Smith, and a scrapbook page by Linus Coraggio capture the cultural history of downtown New York from the 1970s to 90s.

Gallery 98 reflects on its own advertising history, showcasing postcards used to promote early online exhibitions by Neke Carson, Colette, Christy Rupp, Cara Perlman, and Stefan Eins.

With close to fifty newsletters sent out this year, director Marc H Miller expresses holiday greetings and gratitude to the team behind the newsletters. Check our Newsletter page to see all newsletters dating back to 2015.

Howl! is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the downtown spirit of the East Village and has been quietly publishing an impressive collection of exhibition catalogues featuring Arturo Vega, Ethyl Eichelberger, Curt Hoppe, and others.

The Acker Awards, an event honoring avant-garde excellence and the independent downtown spirit, was first initiated in 2012 by artist Clayton Patterson.

The John Gibson Gallery featured challenging Fluxus and Conceptual Art by Joseph Beuys, Richard Long, Christo, Vito Acconci, and Dan Graham, among others.

Explore art ephemera from the final decades of the 20th century, reflecting the heightened self-awareness and demands for political change that shaped the multicultural art world.

Andy Warhol Ephemera—Part 2, showcases posthumous cards, posters, and publications from after Warhol’s death in 1987. Also check out Part 1, which features items from before Warhol’s death.

Gallery 98 presents an online exhibition of Andy Warhol ephemera from before his death in 1987. These cards, posters, magazines, and photos remind us of the importance of Warhol’s background in commercial illustration and mass-media.

Gallery 98 features a selection of announcement cards, catalogues, and other ephemera tracking the long career of Alex Katz, an artist who’s work offers a comforting escape from social issues and angst.

This week’s newsletter showcases art ephemera that tells the story of David Zwirner Gallery, from its origins in Germany to its representation of renowned artists like Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, and Gordon Matta-Clark.

New additions at Gallery 98 include works by Gordon Parks, Issey Miyake, Madonna, and Faith Ringgold, showcasing greater ethnic and gender diversity, and a willingness to mix creative fields.

This collection of folded cards from the Gagosian Gallery in the early 1990s, features black and white photographs of artists in their studios, highlighting the fame, drama, and romance of art making.

This week’s newsletter spotlights different modes of environmental art from the 1970s–1990s, and includes artists like Newton Harrison & Helen Mayer Harrison, Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Alan Sonfist, and Patricia Johanson.

Gallery 98 highlights seven artists from the 1970s and 80s who are still active today, with major exhibitions currently on view in New York City.

Explore vintage art gallery posters from 1965-1995, showcasing the works of Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, and Andy Warhol, among others.

Adam Purple’s Garden of Eden was a renowned urban garden in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1970s. Despite its initial fame and efforts to save it from demolition, the garden was ultimately destroyed. In later years, it’s memory has been tarnished by revelations of Adam Purple’s sexual…

“The Offenders” by Scott B & Beth B is a 1979 no wave film that captures the essence of the downtown art scene through its fusion of art, music, and club culture. Set in a New York wasteland, the film features a celebrity cast of downtown musicians and art-scene trendsetters.

Vintage photographs by Harvey Wang and club calendars showcase the energetic and creative performances at Club 57 in 1980, including Lady Wrestling and the Elvis Memorial Party.

A collection of 1980s snapshots featuring art world celebrities like Keith Haring, Futura 2000, Alba Clemente, Maripol, and Diego Cortez, capture intimate moments at private events and gallery openings.

These amateur photos provide an authentic record of a reception attended by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Stephen Sprouse, and others.

Gallery 98 presents three unusual items that provide a glimpse into the vibrant but short-lived art scene of the East Village in the 1980s. A board-game poster with art by Mark Kostabi is especially fun.

Gallery 98 recently acquired a copy of Ross Russell’s book “Bird Lives!’ It was once owned by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who inscribed it to his friend Lisa Soto. Apparently, Basquiat once had a case of these books and frequently gave them out as gifts to friends.

Gallery 98 has restocked its collection of 1980s downtown periodicals, including East Village Eye, New York Rocker, Details Magazine, and more.

Featured here are two sets of postage stamps connected to the art world. The Love stamps were signed by Robert Indiana in 1991 and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial stamps were signed by Maya Lin in 1984.

Robert Colescott’s gaudily colored, densely packed, transgressive, cartoon-like paintings continue to garner surprising success. …

While the three works featured below could technically be termed ephemera, their artistry and historical importance dispel any thoughts that they might be of fleeting interest.

Gallery 98 is sad to relay the passing of M. Henry Jones, a singular artist whose animated films, kinetic sculpture, and 3-dimensional photographs provide a fortuitous glimpse of future advances in technology, as well as the impact these changes had on art.

Traveling is not easy these days but it was well-worth it to visit Venice and have the opportunity to view the exhibition Marlene Dumas, open-end at the Palazzo Grassi.

Collectors can now click the “For Collectors” button and only items that are available for purchase will remain on the page. For the full inventory of posted items, click on the “For Researchers” button, and the sold items will reappear.

Art Worker features Moore’s remembrances of the artist organization COLAB, The Real Estate Show, The Times Square Show, ABC No Rio, Fashion Moda, Art-Rite magazine, the East Village Eye, cable television and much more.

It’s hard to focus on art ephemera from the 1980s and 1990s when the news of the day keeps intruding. But, unfortunately, racial prejudice, the threat to abortion rights, and the constant menace of war and gun violence are ongoing concerns.

If you want to own just one item of art ephemera, a good choice might be a gallery invitation featuring a portrait of your favorite artist. This type of card has long been used as a way to advertise exhibitions, especially if the artist is well-known or has a distinctive…

In the course of fourteen years in New York’s Soho arts’ district, Deitch Projects completely reconfigured people’s expectations about art. Its founder Jeffrey Deitch was already a well-known art advisor, curator and critic when in 1996 he decided to open his own gallery, where he remained committed to the populist and…

When William Eggleston began taking pictures in the late 1960s and 70s, his use of color and his “democratic” approach to subject matter stood in sharp contrast to the work of other photographers who still favored working in black and white and seeking out “decisive moments” and exceptional subjects.

Recognized as one of Europe’s most successful painters, Dumas has exhibited at top galleries and museums. For Americans who might be less familiar with her work, Gallery 98’s online Dumas exhibition of announcement cards and photographs, spotlights both career highlights and well-known images.

Annina Nosei and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 2,000 square-foot basement of her gallery at 100 Prince Street, NYC. Nosei later provided Basquiat with a studio on Crosby Street. Photo by Naoki Okamoto, courtesy Annina Nosei. Annina Nosei will forever be associated with Jean-Michel Basquiat whom she helped launch…

The passing last month of Annie Flanders the founder of Details magazine has renewed interest in the most successful of the many independent publications to emerge out of New York’s downtown scene in the 1980s.

The large solo exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice running through January 8, 2023, further expands the painter Marlene Dumas’ remarkable fifty-year career consisting of scores of exhibitions at top galleries and museums, as well as, impressive auction sales.

In the same celebratory spirit as Great Day in Harlem, the famous group portrait of jazz musicians, Tea Party at the Algonguin Hotel salutes women artists as a newly empowered creative force.

The best art ephemera chronicles an artist’s career, and for most artists very little of significance happens after their death. Jean-Michel Basquiat is the exception here, an artist whose presence, popularity and importance continued to surge after he died.

One of the easiest ways to sort through the thousands of items listed at Gallery 98 is to go to our Artists Page. Below we have spotlighted some of our favorites, and March being Women’s History Month, all are women.

Over the weekend, news of the death of the underground filmmaker and East Village legend, Nick Zedd, reverberated over the Internet and set off numerous tributes. The uncompromising filmmaker lived hard, and died in near-poverty in Mexico City from complications of cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis C, and cancer.

Gallery 98 offers different ways to explore our inventory of gallery invitation cards, posters and catalogs. One place to start is on our Ephemera Page.