Are you interested in the intersection of activism, art, and feminism? Do you want to contribute to a growing community that is invested in expanding diversity in Wikipedia content and creation? Join us at Bobst Library, in Rooms 743 and 745 (7th floor), on March
This post is contributed by Aleksandr Gelfand, a graduate student in the Archives and Public History Program at NYU. He currently works at the University Archives and is processing the Records of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center. The Grey Art Gallery and Study
Downtown New York artist Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955-79) created artworks that simultaneously highlight and frustrate the commoditization of both his artistic production and his artistic practice. During his lifetime, the artist carefully documented his ephemeral works in a variety of ways, demonstrating a deep concern with
The fastest-growing area of collecting at Fales is our Downtown Collection, which seeks to document the full spectrum of performance, literature, art, activism and music that flourished in downtown New York from the mid-70s to the early 90s. Because of the cross-disciplinary and multimedia nature
One of the most used collections at the Fales Library is the Downtown Collection, which in part seeks to document Downtown New York artists and performers and their art forms. Interdisciplinarity was often the norm rather than the exception among Downtown artists, and as a
Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Fales intern Lawrence Giffin. At the Fales Library and Special Collections, we are currently working on the arrangement and description of the born-digital ‘papers’ of the digital artist Jeremy Blake. Blake produced most of his work from 1997