Please Come to the Show
Invitation cards and event flyers from the MoMA Library ephemera files. Developed in the context of a two-part library exhibition, which ran from May 8-Sept. 23, 2013. After the show closes, new materials will continue to be posted regularly. Organized by David Senior.
Please Come to the Show
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momalibrary:
“Registration form for International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, June 1966. “All Europe’s Creative Nuts Will be There.” ”
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“Before he was spiraling jetties and pouring asphalt down hills, Robert Smithson made paintings and collages. Here is a flyer from his first show in New York City in 1959. -ds
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“James Lee Byars, 1976, from the Steven Leiber Extra Art Archive. - ar
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“Ant Farm flyer from the recently acquired Steven Leiber Extra Art Archive, a collection of artists’ ephemera ranging from 1960 - 1999. As we catalog the material, we will be posting some highlights from the collection. The archive was...
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“Announcement card for For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, curated by Anthony Huberman. Amsterdam: De Appel, 2010. Design by Will Holder.
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Kaprow “activity” in 1970 at Kent State.
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For our Canadian viewers! Where/when is this invitation from, eh?
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Flyers from the Art Workers’ Coalition ephemera file in the PAD/D collection
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From a note in the MoMA artist file of James Lee Byars, “This biographical statement was distributed for the Byars performance which took place in Nov. of 1967 for the opening of the “Made with Paper” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts....
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momalibrary:
“ Hairy Who goes West. A show poster (1969) for a group show (“The show for people who can’t read!”), including Hairy Who’s Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt and fellow Chicagoan Joseph Yoakum, a self-taught artist that the Hairy Who circle...
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