USCO “Be-in” write up in the NYTimes in 1966. The person on the top right is Stewart Brand. If you don’t know who Stewart Brand is, go here ==> http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/AccesstoTools/
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A Walker Art Center announcement for an early Kaprow Happening, which was apparently a mushroom foray in caves in St. Paul, MN. 1962.
48 year old gummy bear “art multiple” by Konrad Lueg on this Galerie Rene Block invite. -ds
Robert Morris flyer from Judson Dance Theater
Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) flyer (1966). Pretty good lineup! We have a great mini-archive of EAT materials here in the library that was donated by Billy Kluver. -ds
Call it an accidental artists’ book, triple recycling, a found object, a Ben Shahn homage, or simpy a handy way to “uncover a person’s inner secrets and character traits.” I came across Dorothy Sara’s Handwriting Analysis (1956) in a mysterious pile at last year’s New York Art Book Fair. Inside is a note:
These books were previously part of an art project involving the repurposing of abandoned or discarded books…We welcome you to select one…Have a look.
So I did. Here’s a look at the back cover. —jt
