Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, April 21 - September 17, 2017. Traveled to California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 2017 - January 14, 2018; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, February 17, 2018 - May 27, 2018; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, June 26, 2018 - September 30, 2018. ... [details]
Publication containing extracted essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Alan W. Moore, Francis Frascina, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Andrea Fraser. Includes an interview between Hans Haacke and Dario Corbeira, reproduction of Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky's "Artist's Reserved Right Transfer and Sale Agreement," as well as reprints of the Art Workers' Coalition publications "Open Hearing" and "Documents 1" pilfered from Primary Information. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
Reprint of significant articles and manifestos and a timeline of the actions of the Art Worker's Coalition. Published by Primary Information on the occasion of the exhibition 'That was Then... This is Now' at PS1/MOMA, June 22 - September 22, 2008. ... [details]
Primary Information's 2008 republication of the Art Worker's Coalition's 1969 "Open Hearing" and "Documents 1." "Open Hearing" is the report from the Art Workers Coalition hearing on April 10, 1969 printed in order to bring each artists' opinion on museum reform to the attention of all art workers and all art institutions in New York City and elsewhere. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 1, 2006 - February 25, 2007. Texts by Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy, Peggy Gale, AA Bronson. Documents the "top 100" works from the Art Metropole works in the Art Metropole Collection held by the National Gallery of Canada. ... [details]
Pamphlet / folded poster published in conjunction with a reconstruction of the 1982 show Illegal America, redefined and held March 3 - April 7, 1990. Curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo. Artists included Vito Acconci, Gempei Akasegawa, Louis Aragon, Art Workers Coalition, Gunther Brus, Chris Burden, Gordon Matta Clark, Dias, Bogomir Ecker, William Farley, John Fekner, GAAG, John Giorno, Greenpeace, David Hammons, Abbie Hoffman, Tehching Hsieh, Jay Jaroslov, Komar & Melamid, George Maciunas, Ann Messner, Richard Mock/Cesar Chavez, Peter Monnig, Charlotte Moorman, Otto Muehl, Paulette Nenner, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, Guillermo Gomez Peña, People's Flag Show, Real Estate Show, Carolee Schneemann, Dread Scott, Jack Smith, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. ... [details]
Issue edited by Peter Townsend. Essays "Art and Politics in the Russian Revolution - Part I," by Andrew Higgens; "Coldstream 1970," by Norbert Lynton; " Technology and Art 19: Kinetics at the Hayward," by Jonathan Benthall; "The Art Workers' Coalition: Not a History," by Lucy R. ... [details]
![Art Workers Coalition Flyer [Is Culture Still Necessary? If So, Whose Culture? Could Culture Be You?]](/objects/images/s26181.jpg "Art Workers Coalition Flyer [Is Culture Still Necessary? If So, Whose Culture? Could Culture Be You?]")
Flyer advertising weekly Monday meetings of the Art Worker's Coalition [AWC] held in New York and its schedule of upcoming guest speakers which included Bob Wiegand of SoHo on "Housing for Artists," February 16, [1970]; Laurin Raiken, cultural historian and sociologist of art, on "The Political Economics of Art" February 23, [1970] and John Hightower "Incoming Director" of The Museum of Modern Art, March 2, [1970]. [details]
Multiple produced c. 1970 by the Art Workers'''' Coalition (AWC) in the form of a single sided one dollar bill titled "ONE BLOOD DOLLAR" featuring an illustration of Rockefeller in place of George Washington with text above it reading "KEEP CULTURE CLEAN. ... [details]
