BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE NEW MUSEUM John Neely Henry Luce Ill STAFF Youth Program Instructor/ President Kimball Augustus Gallery SupeNisor Vera G. Ust Chief of Security Eileen Pryor McGann Vice President Eric Bemlsderfer Manager, Catalog Arthur A. Goldberg Assistant Preparator Subscription and Distribution Treasurer Gayle Brandel Usa Parr Acting Administrator Curatorial Assistant Jack Boulton Mary Clancy Ned Rifkin Gregory C. Clark Administrative Ass1stant Curator Elaine Dannhelsser Pamela Freund Jessica Schwartz Public Relations/Special Director of Public Relations Richard Ekstract Events Assistant and Special Events John Fitting, Jr. Lynn Gumpert Charles A. Schwefel Allen Goldring Curator Director of Planning and Eugene P. Gorman John K. Jacobs Development Reg1strar! Preparator Paul C. Harper, Jr. Maureen Stewart Ed Jones Bookkeeper Martin E. Kantor Director of Education Marcia Tucker Nanette L Laltman Elon Joseph Director Mary McFadden Guard Lorry Wall Denis O'Brien Maureen Mullen Admissions/Bookstore Admissions/ Bookstore Assistant Patrick Savin Assistant Brian Wallis Herman Schwartzman Marcia Landsman Editorial Consultant Laura Skoler Curatorial Coordinator Janis Weinberger Marcia Tucker Susan Napack Reception Admissions/Bookstore TlmYohn Coordinator Editor
The New Museum at 583 Broadway in SoHo. TheNewMuseum OF CONTEMPORARY ART
S P R NG/SUMMER 1 9 8 4 photo· 01rk Rowntree
FRONTLINES
PRESIDENT'S REPORT photo Beverly Owen It is certainly not every season that a museum director 's creative muse takes the form of giving birth to a real Edited by: Saddler, Charles A. (above) Beverly baby. So it was a very special milestone when , on Jessica Schwartz Schwefel, Frank Owen's Toon, the January 3, Ruby Dora McNeil was born to Director Assistant Editor: Stewart, John Waite, spring window Marcia Tucker and husband Dean McNeil. As her John Waite Ellen Page Wilson, installation. mother does a lot of traveling , Ruby Dora landed on a Photos: William H. Donald Young, fast track, and in her first year will have seen a lot of Bengston, D. James Zindman /Fremont. (Cover) John Men- places in this country and abroad. We are delighted to Dee, eeva-inkeri, This newsletter delsohn's The Valley welcome this new member of the Museum family. Allan Finkelman, Jim has been designed of Love and Delight Licaucz, Mike Love, and produced as a (from The Witness} On June 10 the American exhibition at the Venice David Lubarsky, public service by (1982), a painting in- Biennale, entitlec Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained· Simo Neri, Beverly Needham, Harper cluded in the 1984 American Vis1ons of the New Decade, opened , and will Owen, David Rey- & Steers, Inc. Venice Biennale. run through September 30. We are proud indeed that nolds, August Typesetting: Talbot (Collection of the United States Information Agency commissioned Riccio, Dirk Rown- Typographies, Inc. Eugene P. and The New Museum to organize this exhibition , and that tree, Veronica M. Printing: Ensig Press- Fraunces B. Gorman, Marcia Tucker is its U.S. Commissioner. Robert Andrews New York.) Corporation. On behalf of the Board , I take great pleasure in report- ing the election of two new trustees, Paul C. Harper, Jr , Chairman of Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc , and of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and Martin E. Kantor, Chairman of Westbridge Capital Corp. and of the National Foundation Life Insurance Co. This brings the Board's strength up to an impressive nine- teen. It was wonderful to see so many of you at our Celebration V benefit at The Metropolitan Club on May 2. To all of you who support the Museum in so many ways, many thanks.
Henry Luce Ill President 2 FRONTLINES
DIRECTOR'S REPORT the over 475 new and renewed members and ART Now that the dust has settled from our move and the OUEST participants, whose contributions we are very opening events of the fall , The New Museum has pleased to acknowledge with rosters at the end of this turned its attention to refining our programs and Newsletter. We would also like to thank our donors of operations and , with a secure home, has begun long- special project sponsorship, especially Elaine and range planning, both aesthetic and fiscal. Werner Dannheisser, for their wonderful support of the catalog for New Work. New York/Outs1de New York. During my maternity leave, the staff and volunteers functioned under trying ci rcumstances with their cus- Relocation has also generated greater income from tomary energy, initiative and intelligence, and I'm very earned sources, especially special events, admissions, grateful to them and to an extraordinarily supportive catalog sales, subscriptions and the Museum Shop. Board of Trustees for having provided me with an Last fall's Gala Inaugural Dinner Dance raised over opportunity to share full time the first few months of $100,000 (net), and we wou ld like to thank all who par- Ruby Dora's life. My special thanks to Curator Ned ticipated in this important effort. We hope to expand our Rifkin , who, acting as Assistant Director during this earned income activities, so that the Museum may be period , took on the nearly impossible task of pinch- more self-reliant. In this regard , we are indebted to Vera hitting for me as well as continuing his curatorial G. List, the AnneS. Richardson Fund , Dr. Louis R. responsibilities; his assistance was invaluable to all Wasserman , and one anonymous donor, for their of us. substantial contributions to the endowment, which fur- ther insure the financial stability of the Museum. It is thanks to our many friends, new and old , that this year has been the most challenging and fulfilling thus Growth in private and earned sources of income far in the Museum's history. I'm delighted to be back continues to be backed by consistent expressions of after my brief absence, and look forward to sharing support and encouragement from government. We are with all of you an exciting spring and summer season especia lly grateful to the National Endowment for the of programs and events. · Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the City of New York, Department of Cu~ural Affairs. Public Marcia Tucker support for basic operating needs is crucial to our role Director in encouraging, assisting and presenting new work and new ideas. We extend our sincere thanks to the staff, panelists and councils of these vital agencies, as well as PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT to the legislators and elected officials who fund them, It is my great pleasure, on behalf of the staff and for providing the direct assistance which guarantees Trustees, to extend our sincere gratitude to the our existence now and in the future . We are also Museum's many good friends and donors, whose con- indebted to the United States Information Agency for tinued expressions of support and goodwill enable us selecting the Museum to organize the exhibition for the to carry out our essential services and activities. I am American Pavilion at the 1984 Venice Biennale. delighted to report on the highlights of planning and development for the six months ending December 31 , Were it not for the concerted efforts and profound gen- 1983. erosity of so many people-artists, staff, Trustees, vol-
The Museum's relocation has generated a substantial unteers, donors, members, friends and visitors - increase in our operating budget, and we are extreme- matched by solid financial support from philanthropic , ly grateful for the response of our constituency, who corporate and government sources, the Museum's have equally increased their support. At the end of growth and development wou ld not be possible. We 1983, income from all sources totaled approximately are indebted to you all for the strength and vitality of Marcia Tucker intro- $600,000 in revenues, gifts, grants and pledges, a our shared commitment to contemporary art and living duces Texas artist dramatic increase of 100% over 1982. Income from pri- artists, and hope we may continue to be as responsive Earl Staley for his vate sources, including individuals, foundations and to your needs as you are to ours. talk at the opening corporations, continued to grow over the prior year, of his exhibition on provid ing over one-quarter of our operating budget We Charles A. Schwefel March 30. are particularly indebted to these donors, as well as to Director of Planning and Development
photo M•ke Love
3 4
FRONTLINES
CURATORIAL REPORT photo D James Dee »a vel a series of Saturday morning classes for third , fourth (top) Black Swan In December 1983, Ned Rifkin and I were very pleased and fifth graders. John will enlist the help of storytellers, Balricade (1983), a to complete a series of trips, funded by Jerome Foun- painters, maskmakers and other artists for the classes, painting by award dation , to the five midwestern states of Minnesota, which will focus on the current exhibition. recipient Cheryl Wisconsin , Iowa, and North and South Dakota . Ned Laemmle, will be spent quite a bit of time in Wisconsin and I traveled to We would like to acknowledge the support of many seen at the Venice various cities in Iowa. We were able to meet with many volunteers and interns, especially Abby Ehrlich and Biennale this interesting artists, and would like to thank Jerome Foun- Claudia Lach , as well as the special financial contri- summer. (Collection dation for the opportunity to become personally butions without which the Education Department could of Barbara Toll, New acquainted with artists of these various reg1ons The fol - not operate. We wish to thank an anonymous donor for York.) lowing February, after a brief return to New York, I a recent $10,000 contribution which establishes the Per- visited studios in Houston, Austin , Dallas and Fort Worth petual Fund for the Youth Program. In addition, we are (center I to r) Artists - a trip funded by the National Endowment for the grateful to Dow Jones and Company and Consolidated Tom Hatch and Arts. For the future , Ned plans a visit to Southern Edison of New York for their renewed and generously Donald Dudley with California, while I hope to travel to Chicago. Meanwhile, increased support, enabling us to meet the many chal- Curator Ned Rifkin. we continue to keep a busy schedule of studio visits in lenges and opportunities to broaden our service to the (bottom) Curator our immediate New York metropolitan area. community. Lynn Gumpert with Michael Smith, an Artist Award Ed Jones artist whose installa· Dorothy Miller, former Senior Curator at The Museum of Director of Education tion was included in Modern Art, who received The Vera G. List Award for The End of the World Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, has chosen exhibition. painter Cheryl Laemmle as the first recipient of a $5,000 stipend for emerging artists. Laemmle, whose work was included in The New Museum's 1982 New MEMBERSHIP REPORT Work/New York exhibition, has subsequently had solo The Membership Committee will be very active this fall , exhibitions at Barbara Toll and Deborah Sharpe planning parties, tours and trips for members of all galleries in New York and the Texas Gallery in Houston. categories. Phonothons and other forms of solicitation She is also one of the twenty-four artists included in will be initiated to entice new members. We need helpl Parad1se Lost/Paradise Regained. American V1sions of Please contact me at The New Museum if you are in- the New Decade, an exhibition organized by the terested in joining our committee and donating your Museum for the American Pavilion at the forty-first time when needed. It will be an adventure for you and Venice Biennale. of great importance for the continued growth of the Museum. Thank you. Anthology Published by The New Museum The New Museum is planning a major anthology of Dorothy Sahn recent art theory and criticism for fall publication. Entitled Membership Chairman
recent art theory and criticism for fall publication. Entitled Rethinking Representation , the anthology, edited by Brian Wallis, will contain twenty-four essays by contemporary writers of art and cu~ural criticism. The book focuses on the critique of representation, a central issue of much of today's art. Individual essays examine the influence of the media, the eclipse of modernism, the shifting roles of artist and audience, and the impor- tant notions of artistic originality and cultural context The book, co-published by The New Museum of Con- temporary Art and David R. Godine of Boston, is made possible by a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Fund for Scholarship in American Art.
Since Marcia Tucker has returned from her maternity leave, we are happy to have Ned Rifkin once again working full time in the Curatorial Department
Lynn Gumpert Curator
photo: Dav1d Lubarsky EDUCATION REPORT New Docents P- A milestone in the Education Department was reached on March 21 when The New Museum's first Docent class graduated, celebrating the completion of a com- prehensive eight-week training period. Many staff members participated in training the dedicated group, whose vitality derives from the diversity of its members: artists, art historians, teachers of all age levels, and writers. Their duties will include gallery talks (often in Spanish) to visiting groups as well as classroom pre- sentations to area schools.
Video Productions Another important "first" for the department is in the area of video production. David Sasser, a special consultant, has produced an informative, dynamic videotape which will accompany the Venice Biennale exhibition. Another video specialist, Michelle Travis, recently volunteered to help produce a tape for youngsters, featuring the Museum's Earl Staley exhibi- tion. Earl kindly consented to participate in this project during his stay in the city.
Art Classes for School Children As part of the ongoing Youth Program, which serves the public schools of New York, John Neely wi ll initiate photo: Ellen Page W1tson
5 6
CELEBRATION V: V CEI.EBRAZIONE The presentation of The Sambuca Romana Mr. and Mrs. Albert Contemporary Art Fellowships, sponsored Ust with fellow by Pallnl Uquori, S.p.A., of Rome, was the .Trustee Richard highlight of The New Museum's glamorous Ekstract. fifth annual dinner dance. Held on May 2 at The Metropolitan Club, this year's black-tie Henry Luce Ill with benefit celebrated the special new Nan Laitman, relationship that has been established Museum Trustee, between Italy and the Museum this year. and Nancy Luce. Italian diplomats and distinguished Italian- Americans joined with philanthropists, Sambuca Romana collectors, patrons and artists to celebrate juror William Fagaly the Museum's participation In the 1984 and Director Marcia Venice Blennale and to honor the recipients Tucker. of the Sambuca Romana awards. The evening's After the formal dinner was served In The co-chaks, Renate Metropolitan Club's elegant dining room, Shapiro (I) and welcoming remarks were made by Renate Lesre Rosenzweig (r) Shapiro, Celebration V Chair; Henry Luce Ill, standing with President; and Marcia Tucker, Director. the Museum's Jurors of the Sambuca Romana awards distinguished guest, then presented the three $1 0,000 fellow- Count Giuseppe ships to artists Claudia Fitch, Gaylen Panza di Biumo, Hansen and Jack Whitten. Finally, commem- Honorary Chairman orative plaques were presented to Dr. Vir- of Celebration V. gilio Palllni, President of Palllni Uquorl, S.p.A., and to Giovanna Carta, special con- sultant for the Sambuca Romana awards, for their outstanding generosity and support.
Before dancing was begun to the music of The Herb Carlin Orchestra, winners of the evening's l.oHeria-an Italian raffle - were ., - announced. l.oHeria chances of $100 eac" brought distinctive and valuable prizes for many, ranging from exquisite Italian linens •
(PratesQ and Interior design Items (Toscany) to fine designer apparel (Ferragamo, Davlde Cenci, Oleg Casslnl and Gianni Versace, to name a few) and an Italian fur fling with tails (Jerry Sorbara Furs). Our First Prize con- sisted of five beautiful drypolnt etchings by Mlmmo Paladino, donated by Figura, Inc., one of New York City's newest contempo- • rary fine arts publishers. The Grand Prize, donated by Alltalla Airlines, was a trip for Glovanna Carta and two to Italy. Dr. Vlrgl8o Pallini, sponsors of he The wonderful success of Celebration V: Sambuca Roriaana V Celebrazlone was due to the efforts of Contemporary many, especially Renate Shapiro and Leslie Felowshlps, Rosenzweig, Co-Chairs; Laura Skoler, Activ- enjoying the eve- Ities Council Chair; and Mary McFadden, ning's festivities. l.oHeria Chair. We are grateful to the Italian Trade Commission, where our "kick-off'' Sambuca Romana cocktail reception was held on Aprll1 0 to award recipient ay. thank all our l.oHeria donors and supporters. len H__.. receiVIng Special thanks are also extended to Alltalla his felowstt~P-filom Airlines for Its donation of two free round- Dr. M SChmidt trip passages to Italy, making our Grand C~elland Prize for the l.oHeria a reality. M ia Tucker.
We also acknowledge the Indispensable Sambuca Romana help of the Benefit Planning Committee !fai'Cj recipient members: Sally Baker, VIctoria Barr, Claudia Fitch with Madeleine Bennett, Jeanne Breltbart, Tru tee Laura Robert Freldus, Fraunces B. Gorman, Skoler. Michael Halle, Nanette Laltman, Mary Malott, Sherry Morse, Cynthia Oxenburg, Dorothy Sahn, Mimi Saltzman, Deborah Sharpe and Unda Silverman.
7 8
THE SAMBUCA ROMANA 1984 VENICE BIENNALE CONTEMPORARY ART Paradise l.ost;Paradise Regained: FELLOWSHIPS American Visions of the New Decade The New Museum was delighted to present June 10-September 30 Claudia Fitch, Jack Whitten and Gaylen Last year the United States Information Hansen with the first Sambuca Romana Agency, Washington, D.C., appointed Marcia Contemporary Art Fellowships, a new pro- TUcker as U.S. Commissioner of the forty. gram of direct assistance to visual artists. first Venice Blennale. The exhibition, which Sponsored by Palllnl Uquort, S.p.A., the has been organized by Ms. TUcker and makers of Sambuca Romana liqueur, the fel- Curators Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin for lowships comprise three awards of $10,000 the American Pavilion In Venice, consists of each to Individual artists In three cate- forty-eight paintings by twenty-four Amer- gories: emerging, mid-career and mature. ican artists. Those artists whose works are Recipients were selected by an Independent represented In the exhibition include panel of experts, who reviewed the work of Richard Bosman, Roger Brown, Louisa over 400 artists whose work has been Chase, Janet Cooling, Peter Dean, Reverend shown at The New Museum since its Incep- Howard Finster, Eric Fischl, Charles Gara- tion. This year's jurors were William Fagaly, bedian, Jedd Garet, April Gornik, George Assistant Director for Art, New Orleans Thurman Green, Barbara Kassel, Cheryl Museum of Art; Marge Goldwater, Curator, Laemmle, Robert Levers, Judith Unhares, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Dr. Mary John Mendelsohn, Melissa Miller, Ron Moro- Schmidt Campbell, Director, The Studio san, Lee N. Smith Ill, Earl Staley, David Tnle, Museum In Harlem, New York City; and Russ Warren, Tony Wong and Robert Yarber. Marcia TUcker, Director, The New Museum After its Venice showing, the exhibition will of Contemporary Art. travel to five cities in Western and Eastern Europe, through December 1985. I v I VA I T A l I A •
photo August RICCIO
(top left) An untitled installation by Sam- buca Romana award recipient Claudia Fitch, recently shown at the Uni- versity of Hawaii.
(center left) Jack Whitten's painting, Dead Reckoning I (1980). (Courtesy The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.)
(bottom left) Gaylen Hansen's painting, Dark Wolf Dog (1983). (Courtesy Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York.) photo· Frank Stewart
(top right) Melissa Miller's Tempesta (1981). (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Mattingly, Dallas.)
(center right) Janet Cooling's I Only Have Eyes for You (1982). (Collection of the artist).
photo· eeva-1n ken (bottom right) Eric Fischl's Xmass Mom (1983). (Collection of Byron Meyer, San Francisco; Courtesy of Mary Boone Gal- lery, New York.)
9 10 EXHIBITIONS
NEW WORK: NEW YORK/OUTSIDE NEW YORK (left) Jan Staller's Through July 15 photograph, This major exhibition of recent American art by relatively Manhattan Bridge unknown artists from both New York City and other (1983), on display parts of the country combines two series that have In the New Work been presented at the Museum on a regular basis with- exhibition. in the New Work format New Work/ New York features work by seven unaffiliated artists from the metropolrtan (below} 500 Capp area; Outside New York focuses beyond the New York Street, a previous area on another seven artists whose work has not been project by this seen here in any significant manner. By integrating summer's Currents' artists from New York with others from the rest of the artist David Ireland. nation, the two-part presentation, organized by Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin , intends to provide a more complete overview of work done over the last three years.
Artists whose works are represented in the New York portion of the exhibition are Michael Byron , Myrel Cher- nick, Moira Dryer, Paulus Musters, Laura Newman, Jan Staller and Stephen Whisler; and in Outside New York, Yee Jan Bao (Oklahoma), Roger Boyce (California), Julie Bozzi , Susan Whyne and Robert Yarber (Texas), Michael Kessler (Pennsylvania) and Kay Miller (Iowa).
After its New Museum showing , the Outside New York section of the exhibition will be circulated by the Art Museum Association to the Monterey Peninsula Art Museum in California (October 20, 1984-November 25, 1984) and the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington State (January 12-February 24 , 1985).
CURRENTS:DA~DIRELAND July 28-September 9 The New Museum continues its Currents series, which examines the work of artists in mid-career, with an exhibition of the work of California artist David Ireland. Ireland, who has been gaining national prominence in both art and architecture circles, will develop a site- specific environmental installation in the Museum's main gallery. Organized by Robert Atkins, curator and writer, photo S1mo Nen
the exhibition will reflect the artist's concern with the (left) Martin manipulation of natural light and the creation of person- Puryear's wood alized architecture. sculpture, Self (1978). (Collection of MARTIN PURYEAR Joslyn Art Museum, July 28-September 9 Omaha, Nebraska; in The Museum will present a ten-year survey of sculpture memory of Elinor by Chicago artist Martin Puryear, organized by the Ashton.) Universrty Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Puryear's abstract sculptures, handcrafted (below) Leon Golub's from wood and other natural materials, range in form Interrogations II from linear to volumetric, often suggesting organic (1981 ). (Collection shapes. The exhibition , which features more than of the Art Institute twenty works, will also include a recent series of of Chicago.) painted , circular pieces, which the artist refers to as drawings in wood . After its New Museum showing , the exhibition will travel to the La Jolla Museum of Contem- porary Art, California (October 13-December9).
GOLUB: FOUR DECADES September 21-November 25 This fall the Museum will present a comprehensive survey of paintings by Leon Golub. Organized by photo Donald Young Curators Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin, the retrospec- tive will span nearly forty years of the artist's career. Now sixty, Golub was first recognized thirty years ago in Chicago where he played a prominent role in the figurative expressionist movement. Golub's work depicts the ravages of power on society and , more recently, traces the influence of power through the metaphor of the mercenary. His heroic, nude, battling figures of the 1950s and '60s, influenced by classical Roman and Etruscan art, led the way to the Napalm series of the early 1970s, reflecting the events of the Vietnam War. Concurrently, Golub began the monumental depictions of torture scenes, interrogations and mercenaries which have dominated his art since then . His work has earned international recognition for its concern with the human condition , expressed through a powerful formal and iconographic vocabulary. Catalog wi ll be available.
photo Davod Reynolds
11 12 EXHIBITIONS
(left) Donald Dudley's Running Dream, one of this winter's WorkSpace exhibitions.
(below) Joan Jonas' Big Market, one of this year's WorkSpace exhibitions.
Phoro Ellen Page Wrison
WORKSPACE "THE WINDOW" ON VIEW ARTS UPDATE (below left) Beverly The New Museum has Still another facet of the This flexible exhibition pro- Approximately four Owen's Toon, the continued its innovative Museum's intent to engage gram enables curators to times a year, Museum spring window WorkSpace program this the public is its series of present immediately new members enjoy informal installation. spring with month-long window displays visible work selected from artists' slide presentations by our installations by artists who from Broadway. Selected studios for periods of ap- curatorial staff on their (below right) Tom are invited to change and by the Museum's Curators proximately three weeks. studio visits both in and Hatch's Mind, Body develop the space for the and Director, each display Ordinarily unavailable for out of New York City. For and Machine, a duration of their exhibi- remains on view for ap- general public viewing , both the collector and the mixed media window tions. Donald Dudley proximately six weeks. these new works repre- aficionado, ARTS UP- installation. (February 22-April1) Tom Hatch (January 29- sent for the collector and DATE provides an infor- utilized the space by March 18) used plexiglass visitor alike an opportunity mative view of the newest composing geometric constructions and painted to see the most recent developments in contem- designs from interlocking glass combined with direction of an artist's porary art . On December abstract paintings and painting directly onto the development. Last winter 12, 1983, Curators Lynn chalked line drawings. His windowpane to create an ON VIEW featured works Gumpert and Ned Rifkin installation, entitled Run- ambiguous relationship by Kenneth Aptekar, showed slides of work by ning Dream , sought to between real and illusory Rande Barke, Michael artists Phoebe Adams, alter viewers' perceptions space. The work, entitled Byron , Greg Drasler, Derek Boshier, Michael of deep and shallow Body, Mind and Machine, Stephen Frailey, Gary Byron , Mark Campbell , space . An installation by represented a metaphoric Goldberg , Lisa Hoke, Ken Feingold , Bill Harvey, performance artist Joan travelog of the expansion Shelley Kaplan . lona Robyn Johnson-Ross, Jonas (Aprii11 - May 13) of the human mind Kleinhaut, and Amy William Larson, Mark explored possibilities in through the exploration Sillman . Lazurus, Mark McCloud, incorporating a mixture of of outer space. Beverly John Ryan , Tad Savinar visual elements within Owen's Toon (March and Amy Sillman narrative structures. These 25-May 20) mixed mini- "stories" were translated malist configurations with by their association with artificial and natural light the physical environment, to create stark composi- thus provoking new tions. casting shadows meanings for the viewer. with often unexpectedly AI Wong (May 23- June humorous effect. Current- 24) literally moved the ly on view in the window contents of his San Fran- is an installation by artist cisco studio into the Work- Lee Newton, through Space gallery to work in July15. residence for the duration of the exhibition. In Work- ing in New York , Wong photographed people in real-life situations, includ- ing many visitors to his "studio/gallery:· and used these slides to make his unique "shadow'' drawings.
photo Davrd Lubarsky
13 14 EVENTS AND ART OUEST ACTIVITIES
PANEL ART OUEST, the Museum's collectors' forum , brings Art and Ideology: 1960-1984 together individuals who share a commitment to the In conjunction with the Art and Ideology exhibition , The world of contemporary art. Each month ART OUEST New Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem joint- provides its members with the invaluable opportunity to ly presented a panel discussion on March 10. The pan- speak informally with critics, curators and artists in the elists considered the impact of current political ideas homes of private collectors and in the studios of un- and activities on the arts. Made possible through the affiliated artists. In the past The New Museum has ac- generosity of the Alverlist Lecture Fund , the panel in- quainted ART OUEST members with the work of Tom cluded speakers Benjamin HO Buchloh , critic and in- Butter, Keith Haring, James Hill , Judith Linhares and structor of art history at SUNY, Westbury; Jayne Cortez, Mark Tansey before any public showings. poet and writer; moderator Lucy R. Lippard, art histor- ian and critic; Nancy Spero, artist; and Dr. James A limited-€dition print, available exclusively to ART Turner, Director of Africana Studies and Research Cen- OUEST members, is commissioned each year. Th is ter at Cornell University. year's print was executed by Cheryl Laemmle, who first exhibited at the Museum in 1982.
LECTURE: DR. WOLFGANG MAX FAUST ART OUEST comprises a separate category of mem- This spring The Goethe House and The New Museum bership and supports one exhibition annually. For more jointly presented a lecture by Dr. Wo~gang Max Faust, information about the program, please contact The entitled Hunger for Pictures/ Contemporary New Museum. Gennan Painting (May 16, 1984). Dr. Faust, a noted German critic of contemporary art and literature, ON THE ROAD WITH ART QUEST discussed directions and currents of recent German In December, fifty ART OUEST members toured Man- painting . hattan's East Village, an area where more than thirty new exhibition spaces have opened since 1982 to NEW TO US: provide young and emerging artists with an alternative CHILDREN'S IDEAS ON MUSEUMS to the established galleries of SoHo and Fifty-Seventh June 9- 30 Street. The group visited sixteen new galleries, including This first presentation of children's work at The New Fun Gallery, Pat Hearn Gallery, PPOW, Gracie Man- Museum, supported by a special grant from the New sion Gallery, Civilian Wariare and Joe Overstreefs Ken- York Times Company Foundation and other Youth keleba Gallery. ART OUEST then proceeded uptown Program contributors, features collaborative projects by for a cocktail party hosted by Dr. Jack Chachkes and students from five classes at PS. 308 in Brooklyn. The enjoyed seeing his extensive collection of contemporary works, the resu~ of Museum-led workshops held at the art. school, include murals, dioramas and writing which reflect the creative excitement a museum can offer On January 21 , ART OUEST made one of its five children. This unusual exhibition , open to the public on annual studio tours, viewing works by Nancy Howard, weekends only, is on view in the lobby on the third Gerry Morehead , Lee Newton , Erica Rothenberg , Joe level. Please inquire at the Museum for scheduled Smith and Alan Herman, who gave a cocktail party for viewing hours. ART OUEST members.
On February 15, Mrs. Agnes Saalfield hosted the Museum's informative discussion on conserving and registering contemporary art collections. After viewing Mrs. Saalfield's exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art, three guest speakers addressed the group Bonnie Clearwater, Curator of The Mark Rothko Foundation , discussed specific techniques used to record information about work in collections; Antoinette King , Director of Conservation at The Museum of Modern Art, offered advice regarding proper care of works on paper; and Dana Cranmer, Conservator of The Mark Rothko Foundation , mentioned special problems associated with conserving contemporary paintings.
On ART OUEST's first spring outing , March 24, the group visited the studios of six unaffiliated artists in lower Manhattan, including Rande Barke, Emily Cheng , Will Mentor, Melissa Meyer, lona Kleinhaut and Silvia Kolbowski. ART OUEST then returned to the Museum for a reception and provocative discussion with Director Marcia Tucker and Curator Lynn Gumpert about the artists' work seen that day.
Art collectors Donald and Mera Rubel! were hosts of an ART OUEST discussion held on April 26 at their ele- gant Manhattan home. Entitled Who Calls the Shots? Establishing Directions 1n Contemporary Art, the discus- sion featured art critics Hal Foster, Gary Indiana, Klaus Kertess and Lisa Liebmann , with Brian Wallis as moderator. photo: Charles A Schwelel
(top) Panelists Mark (center) ART QUEST O'Donnell, Dr. Robert in the studio of artist Jay Lifton, Linda Melissa Meyer (I), Shearer (moderator), with Carolyn Cole, RudoH Baranik and Susan Hapgood and Dr. Helen Caldicott Werner Dannheisser (r). for The End of the World As We Know It, held at Parsons (bottom I to r) Critics School of Design on Lisa Liebmann, Gary January 19. Indiana and Klaus Kertess addressing ART QUEST members at the home of Dr. Donald and Mera Rubell.
15 16
PEOPLE
(right) Mary Malott, one of The New Museum docents, leads a tour of contemporary art enthusiasts through the Earl Staley exhibition.
photo John Walle
STAFF Juror. Ninth Annual Juried Lecturer and Visiting Critic, VOLUNTEERS PROFESSIONAL Fine Arts Exhibit, Township Montana State University, SPRING 1984 ACTIVITIES Arts Council. Smithtown, Bozeman, May 1984. Jeanne Borgman New York, Apri1.1984. Volunteer Coordinator LYNN GUMPERT DOCENTS 1984 Connie Bangs Curator Lecturer, Second Western Lia Arseni Jenifer Blackmore-Sheldon Juror, McKnight Foundation States Biennial Exhibition , Donnette Atiyah Jeanne Breitbart Fellowship, Minneapolis, Brooklyn Museum, April Terri Coppenger Carolyn Cole February 1984. 1984. Dina Helal Zelda Friedman Rossett Herbert Ruth Ann Fruehauf Juror. lntrospectives, Juror/Lecturer, "Critics' Toby Kurzband Ruth Hart Pyramid Art Gallery, Roch- Choice," Department of Art, Alan Lazansky Dina Helal ester, New York , March University of Tennessee, Mary Malott Cham Hendon 1984. Knoxville, May 1984. Rita Owen Melinda Jones Daria Rigney Patti Kaplan Juror, Oberlin Artists '84 , CHARLES A Iris Rutkoski Sheryl Kleinberg Allen Art Museum, Oberlin SCHWEFEL Jill Viney Mary Malott College, Ohio, March 1984. Director of Planning and Gary Mayer Development INTERNS & Cynthia Oxenburg Panelist, "The Changing Art Received and consulted VOLUNTEERS Dorothy Sahn World ;' Mason Gross School with five members of the Part of the Museum's sue- Judith Silverman of the Arts, Rutgers l:Jniver- Swedish Secretariat for cess over the years has Shelly Smith sity, New Brunswick. New Futures Studies, a group been due to the notable John Waite Jersey, April1984. which has undertaken a efforts of our interns and Deborah Short Weis
FOCUS ED JONES large-scale study of the volunteers. These assis- D1rector of Education social impact of information tants help in a wide vari- MARY CLANCY Field Reviewer, Institute of technology, part of an on- ety of tasks: preparing Administrative Museum Services General going project called "Munici- staff handbooks, compil- Operating Support Program, palities and the Futures ." ing data for grant propo- Assistant March- April 1984. The group is interested in sals and budget reports, Originally from the Museum as a resource supervising youth groups Canada, Mary studied Case Study Presenter, for public discussion of visiting the Museum, painting in Iowa, Museum Workshop on Inter- broad-based concerns hanging and installing New York and West pretive Issues for Art Muse- through artistic and cultural artists' work and much Germany, and ums, Metropolitan Museum activities, December 1983. more. We also need vol- worked In several of Art, New York City, April unteers with expertise in administrative/sec- 1984. MARCIA TUCKER video production, direct retarial positions in Director mail and audience survey New York before Participant, Docent Training Lecturer, "An Unorthodox and development. If you Workshop, Smithsonian can lend a hand, please coming to The New Approach to Art of the '80s," Institution, Washington, D.C., Knight Gallery, Spirit Square call the Museum for fur- Museum. In her April1984. Arts Center, Charlotte, North ther information. current position she Carolina, March 1984. is responsible for NED RIFKIN INTERNS SPRING 1984 helping the Director Curator Visiting Critic, Florida State Wm. James Donnelly and the Director of Curator/ Lecturer. Made in University, Tallahassee. Columbia University Planning and Devel- Philadelphia 6, The Institute March 1984 . Alex Dunn opment organize of Contemporary Art, Uni- Pratt University versity of Pennsylvania, Phil- Lecturer, "Contemporary and carry out a wide Abby Ehrlich adelphia, December Figurative Painting: Al- Bank Street College of range of administra- 1983-March 1984. ternative Approaches," Crea- Education tive functions, in- tive Arts Center. Wright State Sara Hastings cluding coordinating Panelist/Consultant. Art Pro- University, Dayton. Ohio. SUNY, Stonybrook Marcia Tucker's gram, City College, CUNY, April1984. Amy Ross Helman schedule of events January and ongoing. Manhattanville College and activities out- Panelist. Disruption· The Claudia Lach side the Museum. Juror. Juried Show '84, Mora/Imperative of the City College, CUNY Summit Art Center, New Avant-Garde?, Philadelphia Karen Levi Jersey, January- February College of Art, April 1984. City University, London 1984. Susan Linker Lecturer, Institute of Con- New York University Juror /Lecturer, Whitewater temporary Art. Philadelphia. Nadia Matthews Valley Annual Drawing, April1984. Manhattanville College Painting and Printmaking Jeannine Riley Competition. Indiana Uni- Lecturer and Visiting Critic. Conneclicut College versity East, Richmond, University of Illinois, Chica- Emily Rosen Virginia, April 1984. go, April and May 1984 Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research Panelist, Public Art Fund, Visiting Critic. Jerome Foun- Donna Sebring Bryant Park Artists-in- dation Fellowship Program, Rutgers University Residence Program, New Minneapolis College of Art York City, April-May 1984. and Design, April 1984.
Visiting Critic , Yellowstone Art Center, Bill ings, Mon- tana, May 1984.
17 18
PEOPLE
(right) In artist Emily DONORS OF WORKS Grenoble, Ltd . Cheng's studio, OF ART International Business with former ART Leo Castelli Machines Corporation QUEST coordinator Dennis Florio International Telephone and Arthur A. Goldberg Susan Hapgood. Telegraph Corporation Lila & Morton J . Hornick Estee Lauder, Inc. Roy Levitt Laurent Perrier, U.S., Inc. Vera G. List Live! Reichard Company, Joseph Lovett Inc. Martin Sklar Lombard-Wall, Inc. RH Macy & Co., Inc. FOCUS DONORS OF $500 OR Mobil Foundation MORE Morgan Guaranty Trust Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Butler Company of New York SUSAN NAPACK William N. Copley National Distillers and Admissions;Bookstore Anne S. Dayton Chemical Corporation Coordinator Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Needham, Harper & Steers "A litUe diplomacy Eberstadt Paine Webber Incorporated and an ounce of pa· Morgan Garwood Pallini Liquori, S.pA tience are often Fraunces B. & Eugene P Patrician Capital Corporation necessary qualities Gorman Philip Morris Incorporated Nell Johnson Prudential-Bache Securities for an admissions Ratcliffe Company But Lucille & Martin E. Kantor person. I enjoy Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kaye WHH Rees & Company answering questions Nanette L. Laitman Joseph E. Seagram & Sons about The New Emily Landau Technimetrics Museum, especially J .. Patrick Lannan Time Incorporated from those people Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Lewis photo Charles A Schwefef who are excited by Vera G. List SPECIAL THANKS FOR ART QUEST 1983- 1984 Xavier Fourcade, Inc. • the exhibitions and Viki List CELEBRATION V: Lucille Bunin Askin Fre1dus/Ordover Gallery · Mimi & Richard Livingston programs we have to V CELEBRAZIONE Kathi Belfer Allan Frumkin Gallery' Nancy & Henry Luce Ill Lia Arseni offer." Madeleine & Jay Bennett Fuller Goldeen Gallery Mr. & Mrs. Robert P Astor Wine & Spirits Isabel & William Berley Galleri Bellman Marcus Jay Bennett Eleanor & H. Gerard Getler/Pall Gallery As an artist, Susan Martin Margulies Campari USA, Inc. Bissinger Barbara Gladstone Gallery finds a personal Inger & Denis O'Brien Giovanna Carta Dr. Ellie Bragar Fay Gold Gallery need to balance the Milton Petrie Robert Freidus Gallery Michael Braverman Richard Grey Gallery
solitude required for Michelle Rosenfeld Susan Halper Katherine Brown Hirschi & Adler Modern' artistic production Judith N. Ross Institute for the Italian- Lourine & Gregory C. Clark Nancy Hoffman Gallery• Barbara Ingber Gallery' with cooperative Fay & Patrick Savin American Experience Elaine & Werner Institute of Italian Culture Dannheisser Jane Kahan Gallery work in an organiza- Renate & Sidney Shapiro Laura & Saul Skoler Italian Consulate Barbara & Norman Eig Phyllis Kind Gallery• tion. She feels that Dr. Louis R. Wasserman Italian Government Travel Richard Ekstract Monique Knowlton Gallery• there are many op- Office. EMIT Sondra Gilman Mattingly Baker Gallery· portunities to be Italian Trade Commission Carol & Arthur Goldberg Louis K. Meisel Gallery creative in her FOUNDATIONS Italy-America Chamber of Lola & Allen Goldring Susan Meisel Gallery present position. The Louis and Anne Abrons Commerce Fraunces B. & Eugene P Robert Miller Gallery· Foundation Mico Delianova Licastro Gorman Annina Nosei Gallery Susan's first chal- J.E. and Z.B. Butler lenge was to estab- Nancy and Henry Luce Ill Betty Greenblatt Novo Arts, Inc.· Foundation Eileen Pryor McGann Michael Halle The Pace Gallery of New lish an efficient ad- Carpal Foundation Needham, Harper & Steers, SL Highleyman York' missions operation Elaine and Werner Inc. Barbara & Gedale Horowitz RK Parker Gallery while maintaining Dannheisser Foundation Dr. Virgilio Pallini Sharon & Lewis Korman Quay Gallery cordial relations The Downe Foundation Count Giuseppe Panza di Dr. Howard Krieger William Sawyer Gallery with the public and The Armand G. Erpf Fund Biumo Harold & Gayle Kurtz Deborah Sharpe Gallery helping to make the David Everett Foundation Revlon, Inc. Nanette L. Laitman Sonnabend Gallery· Carl M. Freeman Foundation Museum a special Cmt. Michael Spinelli dei Raymond J. Learsy Sperone Westwater Fischer· Sondra and Charles Gilman, Medici Vera & Albert A. List Bette Stoler Gallery place to visit. She Jr. Foundation now looks forward Williams World Travel Nancy & Henry Luce Ill The Joseph G. Goldring Helen Mandelbaum • Donors of $250 or more to the development Foundation Fleur Manning Lotteria donors of a unique and Ralph and Doris Hansmann Edna Nass Adolfo MEMBERSHIP highly successful Foundation Leslie & Ron Rosenzweig Alitalia Airlines COMMITTEE Museum Shop. Jerome Foundation Dorothy & Arthur Sahn Cafe Ferrara Dorothy Sahn The William and Mildred Mimi Saltzman Campari USA, Inc. Chairman Lasdon Foundation Lenore & Herbert Schorr Albert Capraro Isabel Berley Sydney & Frances Lewis Renate & Sidney Shapiro Oleg Cassini, Inc. Eleanor Bissinger Foundation Martin Sklar & Froma Davide Cenci Mary Boone Albert A. List Foundation Eisenberg The Joe & Emily Lowe Ciga Hotels Jeanne Breitbart Laura & Saul Skoler Marilyn Butler Foundation Colitti The Henry Luce Foundation Roberta DiCamerino Margot DeWit NEW AND RENEWED Nancy English The McCrory Foundation Diva Fantasy Designs GALLERY MEMBERS Menil Foundation Famolare, Inc. Marsha Fogel The New York Community Figura, Inc. 1983- 1984 Robert Freidus Trust Fiorucci Brooke Alexander, Inc.· Helen Geller Kenneth Polsky Foundation Gretzinger and Lee , Inc. David Anderson Gallery Nancy Gilman Anne S. Richardson Fund Mary McFadden Art Options Ruth Hart The Simon Foundation Pallini Liquori, S.pA Baskerville & Watson, Inc.· Susan Hapgood Nate B. and Frances Petochi & Gorevic ian Birksted Gallery Cham Hendon James Holl Spingold Foundation Pratesi Mary Boone Gallery· Ratti U.SA, Inc. Grace Borgenicht Gallery· Barbara Ingber CORPORATIONS Rizzoli Harm Bouckaert Gallery Florence Isaacs Alliance Capital Jerry Sorbara Furs Hal Bromm Gallery' Phyllis Kind Management Corp H. Stone & Company, Ltd . Farideh Cadot • Monique Knowlton Avnet, Incorporated Studio Novenove Susan Caldwell, Inc. • Mimi Livingston The Chase Manhattan Bank Toscany Imports, Ltd . Leo Castelli , Inc.· Kathryn Markel Citibank Terme di Montecatini, The D & D Studio Workshop, Susan Napack Consolidated Edison Revlon , Inc. Inc. Cynthia Oxenburg Company of New York Tre Scalini Tibor de Nagy Helen Pall Crozier Dix, Ltd. Tromploy, Inc. Sid Deutsch Gallery· Morris Schrier Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Mario Valentino, Inc. Rosa Esman Gallery· Glary Stephan Exxon Corporation Gianni Versace Richard L. Feigen & Co.· Laurie Wolfert
19 20
PEOPLE
NEW AND RENEWED Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Fleischer, Jay R. Massey Artist/Student/ MEMBERS Jr. Franz Meyer Senior Citizen July- December 1983 Nancy Graves W.B. Meyer, Jr. Diana Aceti • Sustaining Mr. & Mrs. Donald Jonas Mr. & Mrs. George Amy Adams Eleana Borstein • Constance Kane Moskowitz Arthur G. Altschul' Mr. & Mrs. Eugene D. Brody Elizabeth B. Klausner Wiliam Penny & Michele Suzanne Anker Mrs. Clements Dante Werner H. Kramarsky Cohen· Ron Anterionen Robert Durst Cheryl Laemmle & Michael Richard Rapaport Brian Bacchiocchi Claudia Fitch Lucero Arthur Rosen Perry Bard Marsha & Bruce Fogel Mary Malott Sissy & Richard Ross Donald Barnett Jonathan Glynn Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Mandel Barbara & Ira Sahlman Robert Bartovega AI Held & Sylvia Stone Julie V. Marsteller Mr. & Mrs. ltalo Scanga Linda Bastian William Hokin Cynthia Polsky Donna Schneier Susan Beeson Mr. & Mrs. M.S. Keeler Theresa K. Quintanilla D.L. Shuck & Constance Ann Bengston Marcia G. King Marvin A. Sackner Schraft Pamela Benham Dr. & Mrs. William Kleinman Barbara & Eugene Schwartz Janet Solinger Kathleen & Gregory Benson Judith & Nathaniel Lieb Mr. & Mrs. Morton A. Siegler Douglas Walla & Jill Susan Berko Mr. & Mrs. Herbert C Lust Dewain Valentine Sussman-Walia Betsy Berne Richard Owen Jerome Westheimer Judith Bernstein Irene Lee Pagan Mr. & Mrs. Jay Yampol Launa Beuhler David Samuels Family or Shared Norman & Ruth S. Zachary David A. Bishop Paul T. Schnell' Lucille Aptekar & Family Suzanne Brecht Robin Schreiner Richard A. Boardman Bob Breeding Morris M. Schrier Bruce D. Cohan & Carol Individual Lauri Bretthauer Gerald & Marion Sussman Shapiro Andrew Arbenz Scott Brewer Patricia Tarr Jeffrey Deitch Anne H. Arrasmith Agnes H. Brodie Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tufts Nancy English & William Lia M. Arseni Bambi Brown Ellen van den Broeck Manfredi Mrs. Elizabeth Brady John Bryant Berta Walker Jacqueline Fowler· Milton Brutten & Helen Brian Buczak Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Emily Fuller Herrick Frank Bunts' FOCUS Weinstock Florence Gerstin Sabra W. Calland M.D. Lois Burkett • Jack & Doris Weintraub Robert P. Gordy Linda Cathcart Tom Butter USA PARR Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weiss Richard Gray Bonnie Clearwater Catherine Cabaniss· Curatorial Assistant Charles D. Wright Allan Halpern Marvin S. Coats• Sarah Canright' Susan L. Yung Mr. & Mrs. Rolf Hart Barbara Cohen Marina Cappelletto Usa joined the Cura- Mrs. Gladys Zales Charles B. Hinman Sarah H. Cooke Chamson torial Department in Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hudson Dr. Howard Coron Myrel Chernick September 1983. Supporting Peter Hyman • Dana Cranmer Deborah Phillips Chodoff She attended Brown Warren Alpert Barbara & A.A. Jacobson Linda F. Daitz George Cladis and New York Uni-
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Kahn· Louise Deutschman Andrea Cohn versity, receiving her Aspinwall Bernard Kaplan K.S. Dewey Barbara Coleman B.A. in art history Betty Lou Baker Mr. & Mrs. Gerry Kaplan & Aaron Etra Paula Collery and economics. David W. Berman! Family Henryka Frajlich Norman B. Colp • Since graduating, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Biddle Robert Kushner· David Garelik Sharron Z. Corne she has worked with Louis Blumengarten Mr. & Mrs. Carlo Lamagna Steven Cortright Eileen Glaser several New York Mrs. Eleanor Cash Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Levine Jamie Goldring· Suzan Courtney exhibition spaces Rose Dreyer Lillian & Bernard Loomis Rubin L. Gorewitz Petah Coyne John R. Farina Ann McGovern Harold L. Gregor Barbara C. Crane and was formerly Martina Hamilton Gay A. Crosthwait associated with Sharon Haskell Marie Cuscianna Marisa del Re Gal- Cham Hendon Randall Dahlgren lery. At the Museum, Catherine Hillenbrand· Ralph Davis Usa acts as liaison Jane Irish & Mark Dean Craig Dennis between artists and Hank DeRicco Linda Kanter curators and assists Marie Keller Dinarnock Antoinette King Thomas Drysdale in organizing exhibi- Otto Koch William Dunlap tions, with tasks James Kraft Ann Marie Duross• ranging from Kimball Kramer William Dutterer compiling checklists Rita Krauss Elizabeth Dworkin to installing and doc- J. Wilhelm Kulver· Evelyn Eastwood umenting the work. Martha Langford Ted Echt Claudia & Samuel Larcombe Anne Edgar Amy Lowry Ellen· Bohdan Maczulski Bob Ellison Curt R. Marcus Chip Elwell Gloria Marshak-Weissberg• Jim English · Barbara Mirman • Geneen Estrada Peter J. Morrell Suzan Elkin Kathy & Jim Muehlemann Karen Eubel Janice C Oresman Jon Evans· Mary H. Ottaway• Karen Falk Janice B. Palmer Diane Feldman Elisa Petrini Harriet Fields John Rogers S.D. Finler Nancy B. Schlacter Susan Firestone Judy S. Schwartz Noel Frackman Diane A. Shamash' Gretchen Gelb Clarence Short Philip Gilden Laurence Snider Frandy Gluck Sidney R. Solomon Carl Goldhagen (above left) Trustee Mrs. Lois Teich Janet Goldner Laura Skoler and Mark Thistlethwa1te Lori E. Goodman· ART QUEST member Samuel G. Thomas Melissa Gould Michael Halle. Irene K. Towbin' Robin Graubard Diane Villani· Karen Gray Eliza Webb Milton Gray (below left) New Sally Webster George T. Green· Museum staff-Eric Deborah M. Weisbrot Sheryl Greenberg Tracy Williams Angela Greene Bemisderfer, Marcia Enid Silver Winslow Kathleen Grove Landsman and John Amy J. Wolf Rudolf M. Guernica Jacobs- installing Judith L. Wolf Arnold Gumpert The End of the World Eli Zal Fred Gutzeit exhibition. photo Ellen Page Wilson
21 22
Thea Halo Ruth Lull Merle Temkin Lauren Ewing Florence Harper Marilyn F. Lundy Julius Tobias John Fekner Mary Nell Hawk Kathleen McCarthy John Torreano Robert Fichter Richard Allen Heinrich Lady McCrady Mierle Laderman Ukeles Reverend Howard Finster Pamela Hepburn Daniel B. McElwain Ill' Shari Urquhart Ed Flood Doug Hilson Carol Mangan Karen Valdes Claudia Fitch Kent C. Hines* Katinka Mann Nancy Van Goethem Dana Garrett Carter Hodgkin Lilli Marzell Carl Vicars II Frank Gohlke Juliet Holland Amanda Means Carolyn S. Wade Louie Grenier Judith Hudson' Alberto Mena Lawrence Warshaw Keith Haring JP Hutto Melissa Meyer Joan Watts James Hill Kyohei lnukai Joan Moment Amanda Weil' Joseph Hilton Michtltami Olga Moore Marcia R. Wester Lisa Hoke Elizabeth Browning Jackson Neil Morris lain Whitecross Steve Keister photo: Mike Love Howard Johnson Joy Moser Alicia Winegardner-Pardo- Mark Kloth Earl Staley paints Lisa Johnson Naomi Muramatsu Lastra' Barry LeVa the entrance sign to James Johnston Cady Noland Paul Cortes Wojtasik Donald Lipski Otis S Jones Helen Oji Adrienne Wortzel Brad Melamed his exhibition. Lisa Kahane Judy Pendleton Rita Yokoi Melissa Meyer Michel Kanter Barbara Peterson Stephen Zaima Steve Miller Lawrence Kaplan B. Pickard Julie Zale Linda Montano Deborah Kass Janet Pihlblad Jerilea Zempel Claire Moore Carole Richard Kaufman Linda Porto Beverly Naidus Robert Kaupelis E.M. Poveromo • Donors to the Education Helen Oji Madeline S. Keesing Patricia Powers Fund Howardena Pindell Michael Kendall Phyllis Prinz Adrian Piper Shoko Kingetsu Ada Pullini' James Poag Minerva Kirschner Piry Rame We gratefully Katherine Porter Chr. Manfred Klette' Jock Reynolds acknowledge the Richard Prince Kiki Kogelnik Christine A Ritchie support of the David Reed Pamela J. Kogen Tony Robbin following artists who Earl Ripling Andres Kohler Zev Robinson participated in our Mike Roddy Ann Knutson Robert Rohm exhibitions, October- Dorothea Rockburne Diane Krukowski Czahka Ross· December 1983 Erika Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Martin Krugman Elizabeth Ross Nicholas Africano Allen Ruppersberg Petty Kutzen Joan L. Roth John Ahearn David Saunders Nicholas Carl Kuvach Selma Sabin Rudolf Baranik Craig Schlattman Emily H. Lalor' Angelo Sauelli Terry Allen Joel Shapiro Morton Landowne Mr. & Mrs. B. Schiffer Nancy Arlen Amy Sillman Scott Lane Thomas Schott John Baldessari Michael Smith Ellen Lanyon Amy Schwartzman • Lynda Benglis AI Souza Hanne Lauridsen Marilyn Seven Dara Birnbaum Nancy Spero Soo-Young Lee Fran Shalom Richard Bosman Pat Steir Bibi Lencek Celia Shapiro Allan Bridge Gary Stephan Susan Leonard • Kent Shell Joan Brown Marianne Stikas Dalia R. Levy Elise Siegel Roger Brown Terry Sullivan Ellen K. Levy Kit-Yin Snyder Linda Burgess Mark Tansey Morgan Lewis Tina St. Clair Tom Butter Irvin Tepper Lawrence List Jan Staller Michael Byron Rigoberto Torres Ken D. Little Kathy Stark Bruce Charlesworth Anne Turyn Paige Livingston· Lewis Stein Michael Cook William Wegman Judith Lodge Susan Steindler Jaime Davidovitch Lawrence Weiner Mary Louise Long-Jecko Carl Stine Douglas Davis William T Wiley Joanne Lowenthal Sara Tacher Eleanor Dube Grace Williams Bonnie Lucas Elyse Taylor Kate Ericson Robert Younger
M E M 8 E R s H I p .------MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION I wish to enroll as a member of The New Museum in the category indicated below
__ $ 30 Individual 50 Family or Shared 100 Supporting 250 Sustaining The New Museum 25% Dtscount on $1,000 Patron 500 Sponsoring needs your help Museum Publications All of the Above 1000 Patron to continue its Current Exhibition Catalog Beneftts, plus 2500 Benefactor programs. Your 10% Discount at the Guest membership 1n 5000 Founder membership in The Museum Shop ART OUEST, The New and above New Museum is Museum's Collectors· an opportunity to $50 Family or Forum, upon request: Special Membership Categories support art by living Shared Membership for information please _ _ $ 15 Artist/Student/Senior All of the Above artists. We invite contact the Museum. Citizen Benefits for Two People your participation. 250 or more Gallery Membership $2,500 Benefactor 1000 or more Corporate $100 Supporting CATEGORIES OF All of the Above Membership MEMBERSHIP All of the Above Benefits, plus: Beneftts, plus A Special Tour to studtos Museum memberships paid for a twelve-month period Two Free Exhibttton Cata- $15 Artist/Student/ of unaffiliated artists are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law Senior Citizen (62 or logs (your choice) with a Museum Curator 40% Dtscount on older) Listing on the Benefactors I would like to add $5.00 or$ to my Free Admission to Museum Publications Plaque in the Museum membership to support the Museum·s Education Exhibitions Biannual Report Lobby program. 10% Discount on Free Admission to Total Amount Enclosed $ ______Museum Publications Arts Updates $5,000 Founder Quarterly Calendar ol All of the Above Ms./Mr./Mrs./Mr. & Mrs. ______Events $250 Sustaining Benefits. plus Advance Notice of All of the Above Curatonal Advtsory Special Events Service Mernbersh1p name as you w1sh 11 to appear 1n the Annual Report 11 dtflerent Benefits. plus from above 10% discount on art sup- Invitations to Spectal Listing on the Founders plies at New York Cen- Openings with Art1sts Plaque tn the Museum Street Address tral for artist members & Curators Lobby lnvitattons to Exhibitton All Exhibitton Catalogs Ctty State Ztp Code ( ) Openings New York City Artists· Gallery Memberships Home telephone Bus1ness tele phone Reduced AdmissiOn to of $250 or more and Studio Tour My membership is new ___ renewed ___ Lectures. Symposia Corporate Member- and Panel Discussions ships of $1 ,000 or more $500 Sponsoring Does your employer have a matchtng gift program? Museum Newsletter (with All of the Above are available. Please con- If so please indicate. Yes 0 No 0 hsttng on Members Benefits, plus tact Charles A Schwefel Roster) ·The Portable Gallery a for detatls. limited edition of ongtnal Name and Address of Company $30 Individual works of art. published by Membershtps are tax- All of the Above The Letter Edged in deductible to the extent Benefits. plus Black Press (Cply). allowed by law
23 24 p u 8 l I C A T I 0 N S
(right) Museum shop THE MUSEUM SHOP with Indian Head, The Museum Shop. open to the public during Museum ceramic vessel by hours, carries exhibition catalogs and brochures; hand- Earl Staley. crafted objects and artist prints and books produced in multiples; resource materials for artists. published by arts service organizations and artists' interest groups: and maps and guides.
PUBUCATIONS CATALOG SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM Each year the Museum publishes approximately six il- lustrated exhibition catalogs, with critical essays. artist biographies and bibliographies Now a Catalog Sub- scription Program has been developed, assisted by a grant from The New York Community Trust, in order to reach more art organtzations and individual enthusiasts than ever before.
Subscribers will receive all exhibition catalogs and bro- chures published dunng the year they join , as well as the special ring-binder. The 1984- 85 Subscription Pro- gram will be available September 1984.
For additional information on the 1984-85 Subscriptton Program. as well as educational and trade discounts. please contact Eileen Pryor McGann, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 583 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, (212) 219-1222.
THE NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGS EARLY WORK BY FIVE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS (1977) $6.00 ALFRED JENSEN PAINTINGS FROM THE YEARS 1957- 1977 (1978) $12.00 NEW WORK/NEW YORK (1977) $6.00 OUTSIDE NEW YORK (1978) $6.00 BARRY LE VA FOUR CONSECUTIVE INSTALLATIONS AND DRAWINGS (1978) $10.50 THE INVENTED LANDSCAPE (1979) $7 50 SUSTAINED VISIONS (1979) $7 .50 IN A PICTORIAL FRAMEWORK (1979) $6 00 DIMENSIONS VARIABLE (1979) $6.00 NEW WORK /NEW YORK 1979 (1979) $6.00 REE MORTON RETROSPECTIVE 1971-1977 (1980) $15 00 photos. 0 1rk Rowntree
OUTSIDE NEW YORK THE STATE OF OHIO (1980) $6.00 DECONSTRUCTION /RECONSTRUCTION THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INFORMATION INTO METAPHOR (1980) $7.50 HALLWALLS FIVE YEARS (1980) $5 .00 INVESTIGATIONS PROBE /STRUCTURE /ANALYSIS (1980) $7 .50 EVENTS FASHION MODA. TALLER BORICUA. ARTISTS INVITE ARTISTS (1980) $7 .50 JOHN BALDESSARI WORK 1966-1980 (1981) $15.00 ALTERNATIVES IN RETROSPECT AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 1969-1975 (1981) $7.50 STAY TUNED (1981) $6.00 PERSONA (1981) $6 00 r------· NOT JUST FOR LAUGHS (1981) $7 50 NEW WORK /NEW YORK (1982) $6.00 ORDER FORM EARLY WORK (1982) $10.50 Catalog/Brochure Title Price EXTENDED SENSIBILITIES HOMOSEXUAL PRESENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART (1982) $10.50 OUTSIDE NEW YORK SEATILE (1982) $7.50 EVENTS II EN FOCO AND HERESIES (1983) $10.50 THE END OF THE WORLD CONTEMPORARY VISIONS OF THE APOCALYPSE (1983) $13.50 ART & IDEOLOGY (1984) $10.50 EARL STALEY 1973- 1983 (1983) $13.50 NEW WORK NEW YORK /OUTSIDE NEW YORK (1984) $10.50 Postage Rate SUBTOTAL ___ THE NEW MUSEUM BROCHURES $1.00 for the first POSTAGE ___ publication, 50 25 NON-PROFIT ORG . U.S POSTAGE TheNewMuseum PAID NewYork, NY OF CONTEMPORARY ART Permit No. 1816 583 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10012 212 2191222 TRANSPORTATION IRT (#6) Lexington Avenue subway (Spring Street) N/RR Broadway subway (Prince Street) IND Eighth Avenue subway (AA!CC/E) (Spring Street) #6 bus (Seventh Avenue southbound to Broad- way at Houston) #5 bus (Broadway south- bound to Houston) #1 bus (Fifth Avenue southbound to Broad- way at Houston) HOURS: Tues -Sun , '12- 6 pm Wed , 12- 8 pm (5- 8 pm tree) Mrs. S. E. Sussman ADMISSIONS 875 Park Ave . General: $2.50 New York, NY 10021 Artists, students & seniors $1.50 Members tree GROUP VISITS School or adult groups Who would like to schedule a visit to the Museum should contact the Education Depart- ment. Docents will be available most days to provide infOrmative gallery talks.