Exhibition poster and a separate announcement postcard, published in conjunction with the second and third “performances and activities” of NYU’s Art Student Association series, produced by gallerist John Gibson and collectively titled BODY. The announcement features a white negative image of performance artist Vito Acconci printed on a black background. The first performance in the series included artists Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Dan Graham, and Dennis Oppenheim. The second set of performances, presented two weeks later, featured Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Michael Snow. BODY is considered a landmark.....
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The complete set of four exhibition postcards for the Dwan Gallery's highly-influential "Language Shows," beginning with 1967's "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read" curated by Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. The Dwan Gallery was among the first to produce exhibits focusing on language, and the 1967 group show brought together works by Duchamp, Smithson, LeWitt, On Kawara, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre, Picabia and Ad Reinhardt, among others. In the book "Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art" Liz Kotz writes: "The four exhibitions helped.....
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