Announcement for a planned Black Art & Fashion Show at Wadleigh Junior High School (P.S. 88) on May 3, 1969. As noted in the flyer, this show along with other similar events was planned to unite the local black community and help younger African American students develop their talents.

Condition: Good-, two half-ring coffee stains at top of page; faint soft creasing along top edge; smudging to printing at center; stamped "May 7 1969" at bottom of flyer.
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A promotional brochure, program or mini-catalog for the important film Apocalypse Now. Includes a "log" detailing the timeline of the filming and production, full film credits, and biographies of the actors and key production personnel. Photographs throughout. With an introduction by Francis Ford Coppola. Program design by Milton Glaser, Inc.

Condition: Very Good+, slight wear at spine edge.
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The exhibition poster for a sculpture exhibit by Robert Duran at Bykert Gallery from October 5-30, 1968. On brownkraft paper with red-orange ink. Robert (Bob) Duran was active in California and New York and known for his work as an Abstract Expressionist painter. The Bykert Gallery exhibited artists such as Brice Marden, Chuck Close, David Novros, Joe Zucker, Bill Bollinger and others from the mid-'60s to the mid-'70s.

Condition: Very Good; folded as issued; additional soft crease across middle.
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A flyer for the 1978 Portland appearance of the major Whitney-organized touring exhibit, "Calder's Universe". A return address and postage imprint is printed on the reverse as the flyer was meant to be folded and mailed, but this copy is unfolded and in fine condition. A charming book of the same name was published by Viking for the touring exhibit.

Condition: Fine.
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By 1969, Columbia students had been holding protests on campus for several years. At the time of this announcement, the SDS had planned a university-wide strike for March 25, 1969 to protest the college's expansion policies, NROTC, military recruiting and government research on campus. In this statement, acting University president Andrew W. Cordier acknowledges the students' rights to freedom of expression but also asserts the rights of the wider community to pursue educational goals without interference.

Condition: Very Good+, .25" tear at left edge, faint soft creasing to bottom right corner.
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Mt. Angel College was known for its vibrant art department and exhibition programming in the 1960s and 70s. This two-sided Mt. Angel College flyer describes the Creative Arts Department, writing center, and music workshops along with the College's philosophical and educational approach to these areas. The pinhole photographs that are printed on both sides of the flyer are by Jim Shull, an Oregon artist and the photography professor at the now defunct Mt. Angel College, which was located in Marion County, Oregon.

Condition: Near Fine, toning to newsprint.
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The flyer for the February 7 to March 4, 1967 group exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, bringing artists from the New York outpost of the Dwan Gallery to the Los Angeles location. Artists in the exhibit included Sol LeWitt, Arakawa, Anastasi, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Michael Steiner, Richard Baringer and Tom Doyle.

Condition: Near Fine, faint soft creasing at edges.
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An "operations and information" newsletter published by E.A.T. (Experiments in Art & Technology) in November of 1968.E.A.T. was co-founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, growing out of the 10-day festival of experimental performances 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York in the fall of 1966. A program of Technical Services was established to assist artists by matching them with engineers and scientists. E.A.T. saw itself as a catalyst for integrating new technology.....
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Diecut exhibition invite tri-folded as issued and mailed (no postmarked date). Published in connection with Allen Carter exhibition at the Renshaw Gallery at Linfield College, April 5-25.

Condition: Fine, 1 cm tear on middle left and a very slight crease in center that runs half way down the document.
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Flyer put out by the American Library Association's Task Force on Gay Liberation at its annual conference. One side of the flyer contains a program of events for the 1977 conference in Detroit. The other side summarizes the task force's accomplishments of the past 7 years and projects currently underway.

Condition: Very Good+, horizontal fold across middle.
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Mimeographed flyer for illustrated lecture entitled: Portrait of the Artist As a Man presented by Henry Augustine Tate. Gotham Book Mart, now closed, was a legendary bookstore, writers' center, and literary salon. The James Joyce Society meetings were an important aspect of this bookstore's programing and its usual meeting place. The Society was founded in 1947, and is devoted to the life and works of the Irish author. The first member of the Society was T.S. Eliot.

Condition: Very Good, folded once in half.
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An exhibition flyer for Karel Appel's exhibition held at Martha Jackson Gallery from October 25-November 19, 1960. Martha Jackson Gallery presented Appel's first exhibition in the United States in 1954. Plus a concurrent exhibition flyer, featuring lithographs by Appel, for the inaugural show at David Anderson Gallery next door (Anderson was Martha Jackson's son). The David Anderson Gallery was dedicated solely to exhibiting prints.

Condition: Martha Jackson flyer: Very Good, folded as issued; minor bump to bottom right corner. Anderson Gallery flyer: Fine.
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Press release for the 1968 LACMA exhibit Late Fifties at the Ferus, which documented “for the first time in a museum presentation the beginnings – the birth and growth of what is now the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles”. Also included is a press release for H.C. Westermann’s LACMA Retrospective of 1968, which included 49 major works.

Condition: Fine, folded as issued, slight toning to top of first page and some small chips to top edge of page 2.
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