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Act Up's poster for the 10th Anniversary “Crash the Market” action to demand AIDS treatment for all, including a reduction in the price of medication. Also promotes an activist conference occurring over the preceding weekend.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1100
June 5-30, 1962 exhibition poster for the showing at Martha Jackson Gallery of Alex Katz's stage set used in a Kenneth Koch play. The set came about in an example of New York School collaboration. Koch, inspired by Larry Rivers' painting, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, wrote a one-act play of the same name. After seeing an Alex Katz exhibition of figures made of canvas and wood, Koch asked Katz to create the set for his play, which was later installed for viewing at Martha Jackson's gallery.
Condition: Very Good+.....
Item #759
A double-sided flyer promoting a one-hour employee walkout and rally at Columbia University in support of student demands, which included abolishing ROTC, war research and recruiting, opening up apartments held vacant and ending evictions in area apartment houses. The flyer is printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other and is stamped March 26, 1969.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped "Mar 26, 1969" on one side.
Item #721
The exhibition announcement card for "ALife: Shop" a pop-up project featuring 60 artists at Deitch Projects Gallery in New York City. The card mimics Andy Warhol's famous Campbell's soup can and inspiration for the art shop came from Keith Haring’s Pop Shop of the 1980s. Alife was/is a NYC collective and artist's agency. Some of the participating artists were Kaws, Brendan Fowler, Doze, Dynamo/Keith and Alisa Dynamo, Ed Templeton, Galaxia,HUGA/Green Lady, Neverstop/Caterina deCarlo, Ryan McGinness, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Tommy Guerrero, Toy Group 360, Twist and Young Kim.
Condition: Near.....
Item #1288
An original two-sided flyer for a DEVO after-party at Danceteria, in New York in 1982. Also advertises a party for Neutral Records' "Vortex" film soundtrack release. The film starred Lydia Lunch and Ann Magnuson.
Condition: Very Good, toning to paper; edges unevenly trimmed.
Item #1119
The exhibition/event poster for the Deitch Projects exhibition "Session: The Bowl" that took place from December 14, 2002 to February 15, 2003 at 18 Wooster Street in New York. The central element was a giant, empty wooden swimming-pool sculpture and skateboard bowl created by Simparch and placed in the middle of the gallery. The viewer approached the skate bowl sculpture from the underside, and a stairway led to the upper level. An exhibition of new painting, drawing, photography, and video by 33 artists associated with skateboard and street culture was.....
Item #1336
Flyer promoting the Socialist Workers Party in the 1969 election. One side features the candidates for New York City government offices with Paul Boutelle for mayor, while the other spells out the Party's platform. The SWP formed in 1937 as a splinter group of Trotskyists from the Socialist Party and went through several major transformations over the following decades. By the late 1960s, the SWP was strongly involved in the Black nationalist movement, the anti-Vietnam-war effort and women's rights, all of which are strongly represented on this flyer.
Condition: Very.....
Item #682
Announcement of and invitation to join the SCU, a moderate student organization dedicated to nonviolent dialogue and academic freedom. The SCU was founded in May 1968 in direct opposition to the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and its violent activities. This flyer states that the SCU is involved in university restructuring, position papers, study groups, campus debates and social activities and warned that another violent spring could threaten the very existence of Columbia. The flyer is stamped March 17, 1969 at the bottom.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped.....
Item #722
Set of two pieces: [1] Calendar of events for the Winter season 1969/1970 at The Poetry Center. This amazing schedule of speakers included Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Mead, Noam Chomsky and others. [2] Invitation to a reception in honor of Ginsberg and Snyder which took place at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery right before their reading. This reading by the two Beat Poets and famous friends must have sold out quickly as "sold out" is printed on both the calendar of events and the invitation.....
Item #649
The oversize poster for Charlotte Moorman's 9th New York Avant Garde Festival 1972, taking place in New York City, Albany and "hopefully" Poughkeepsie, with some events taking place as as "A Riverboat Show Aboard the Alexander Hamilton," a passenger steamboat that travelled the Hudson River between New York, Albany and Poughkeepsie. The poster lists dozens of artists and performances including Eleanor Antin, Ay-o, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Carolee Schnemann, Allan Kaprow (mispelled "Allen" on the poster), Christo, Jean Dupuy, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Otto Piene, Judith Scott, plus many, many.....
Item #1055
An announcement card for a publication party for "The Poets of the New York School" on December 8, 1969 at Gotham Book Mart. The book was published by the University of Pennsylvania and distributed by the Gotham Book Mart. The event was a chance to meet the poets and artists featured in the book which included John Ashberry, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Fairfield Porter, Joe Brainard, Alex Katz and Robert Goodnough, among many others. Gotham Book Mart, now closed, was a legendary bookstore, writers' center, and literary salon.....
Item #471
