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By Andrew Russeth 5/31 1:10pm

A 1963 Fluxus manifesto. (© Estate of George Maciunas/Wikicommons)

MoMA’s Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives Are Now Available to Researchers

The Museum of Modern Art’s Inside/Out blog carries news from archivist Julia Pelta Feldman that the archives of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection—the world’s largest private Fluxus trove, which was donated to the museum in 2008—are now available to researchers, after years of cataloguing efforts by MoMA staff. (Thanks to art historian Matthew Israel for tipping us off to the news.) Read More

By Andrew Russeth 4/09 5:37pm

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Photographic Memory: Soho Photographer, Closing After Almost Four Decades, Seeks Home for Archive

The five-story redbrick building at 12 Wooster Street has housed just two businesses since it went up in 1884. Until 1981, it was the site of the factory-supply firm Durbrow & Hearne; since then, it has been home to the Soho Photographer. Read More

By Michael H. Miller 1/10 4:22pm

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Ada Louise Huxtable Archives Land at the Getty

The Getty has acquired the archives of Ada Louise Huxtable, the first full-time architecture critic at a major American newspaper, who died on Monday at the age of 91. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 9/25/12 2:41pm

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Still from video on the Time Capsule blog showing the opening of one of Warhol's Time Capsules. (Courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum)

Warhol Archive Closes Temporarily for Reorganization

Seventeen years after the archives at the Andy Warhol Museum was opened, it has been closed for “rehousing and reorganization,” according to The Art Newspaper, which has a very interesting story on the complications with the organization and preservation of the archives of the artist who was also a notorious pack rat. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 8/02/12 4:09pm

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Emmerich's book, 'My Life with Art.' (Courtesy Rudder Finn Press)

André Emmerich Papers, Gallery Records Catalogued by Archives of American Art

After three years of work, the papers of legendary dealer André Emmerich and his gallery are now catalogued and available at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. (Thank you to Art in America‘s website for pointing to the news.) The complete papers—including appointment books, correspondence and various records—measure some 300 linear feet and are dated from 1925 to 2008, according to the AAA. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 3/05/12 3:37pm

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A page from "Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner," also known as the "Xerox Book," edited by Seth Siegelaub, December 1969. (Primary Information)

Primary Information Adds Storied Conceptual Art Catalogues to Online Siegelaub Archive

The New York-based imprint Primary Information just posted online a series of seminal publications of conceptual art put out by curator, dealer and textile maven Seth Siegelaub in the 1960s and early ’70s, including some that doubled as exhibitions. It’s a treasure trove of some of the era’s vanguard art. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 1/16/12 6:37pm

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Postcard from Jasper Johns postmarked Dec. 5, 1969

Six Feet of the 1960s and '70s: Patty Mucha—Once Mrs. Oldenburg—on Her Archives and New Memoir

Before Andy Warhol met The Velvet Underground and designed their iconic banana album cover, the Pop artist occasionally sang backup in a band called The Druds. Minimalist Walter De Maria played drums, painter Larry Poons guitar and composer LaMonte Young saxophone. Artist and poet Patty Mucha was the lead singer. Read More

Gallerist NY

MoMA’s Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives Are Now Available to Researchers

Photographic Memory: Soho Photographer, Closing After Almost Four Decades, Seeks Home for Archive

Ada Louise Huxtable Archives Land at the Getty

Warhol Archive Closes Temporarily for Reorganization

André Emmerich Papers, Gallery Records Catalogued by Archives of American Art

Primary Information Adds Storied Conceptual Art Catalogues to Online Siegelaub Archive

Six Feet of the 1960s and '70s: Patty Mucha—Once Mrs. Oldenburg—on Her Archives and New Memoir

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