“Please Come to the Show, Part I (1960–1980)” Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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Since its beginnings, the MoMA Library has housed several collections of artists’ files and subject files, which contain assorted printed ephemera like announcement cards, press clippings, posters, and flyers. These materials illustrate an elaborate range of artistic activities and can contain unique elements from an artist’s practice. This two-part exhibition gathers a sample of innovative printed invitations, small posters, and flyers from the early 1960s to the present. The selection traces ways in which artists, designers, and galleries have used invitation cards and other printed announcements as a part of the staging of conceptual works, installations, performances, and other time-based events and screenings. This diverse grouping of ephemera explores the various, surprising ways that we have been invited to experience art.
[Image: George & Gilbert “To Be with Art is All We Ask” London: Nigel Greenwood, 1970]
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Schedule
from May 08, 2013 to July 15, 2013