University Archives: Hemispheric Institute (RG 37.45)

Archived since: Jul, 2012

Description:

New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Policitics is an interdisciplinary institute whose mission is to connect artists, scholars, and activists from across the Americas and create new avenues for collaboration and action. The institute focuses on political engagement and social justice through events, conferences, large-scale international gatherings, performances, other artistic works, and publications. The Hemispheric Institute was founded in 1998 by Diana Taylor, and has grown into an international network of universities and cultural centers across the Americas that collaborate on projects and individual actions concerning human rights and social justice.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

University Archives RG 37.50: Center for Dialogues

Archived since: Jan, 2015

Description:

The Center for Dialogues was established after September 11, 2001 to foster greater dialogue between the Islamic World, the United States, and the West. It was launched as a a forum and evolved into an institute that held conferences, published policy papers, and other programming. The Center was affiliated with the New School for Social Research from 2002-2005, and with NYU from 2005-2015. The Center closed at the end of January 2015. The Center reported administratively to the Office of the Provost.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Blogs & Social Media,  Politics & Elections

Tamiment-Wagner: Communist Party, USA

Archived since: Jan, 2015

Description:

Contents of the newspaper, magazine, and website of the Communist Party, USA.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Politics & Elections,  Society & Culture

Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovaniia (Siberian historical research)

Archived since: Apr, 2015

No description.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture

New York University Collection of Contemporary Composers' Websites

Archived since: Oct, 2013

Description:

A curated collection of websites devoted to (and typically owned and operated by) individual contemporary composers. The primary curatorial goal is to preserve these historically important documents of the music and musicians of our time as a legacy to posterity. “Contemporary” we define as living or recently deceased. “Composers” we define as those who are working within, or are descending from, or are in some significant way connected to the Western traditions of concert music—composers who produce notated scores but inclusive also of those whose work embraces improvisation, collaborative composition, and other post-modern/post-classical creative practices. As there are many thousands of such composers active in the world today, we are emphasizing young, emerging Americans in the initial phases of this project.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Composers,  Contemporary Music,  Music

Food Blogs

Archived since: Dec, 2011

Description:

An archive of major food blogs in the U.S.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media,  Science & Health,  Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: d.u.m.b.A collective

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

Founded by Scott Barry, the DUMBA Collective (1998-2006) was a non-profit arts collective in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was devoted to the contemporary art practices of the queer community. They offered space to local and international artists, primarily queer, and gave the majority of the profit back to the artist. The Collective was both a living space and an anarchist community center. It is most known for their Lusty Loft Parties and a filming location for John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus. DUMBA lost its lease in 2006. This archived website is the MySpace page for the DUMBA collective. MySpace was a social networking website most active in 2000s. It describes planning for a sex party, fliers from events at DUMBA, and well wishes from DUMBA's MySpace friends.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Politics & Elections,  Government - US States,  Sexual politics,  Art--Political aspects,  Queer action/queer ideas,  Gay artists

Fales Library: Working Artists and the Greater Economy

Archived since: Sep, 2015

Description:

This collection contains websites related to Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), mostly documenting their web presence from 2015-2017. The website contains information on their wo/manifesto; mission; history of the organization and history of artist organizing; board members; fundraising efforts specifically their Wages 4 W.A.G.E. campaign; writings on artist compensation; news; and events. A major focus on the website includes the 2010 W.A.G.E survey on artist payment from non-profit arts institutions and guidance on W.A.G.E. certification program and how to get certified. Many of their events and videos focused on publicizing the results of the survey and getting artists and institutions involved in the certification program. Other events include exhibitions and performance art exhibited by W.A.G.E. members, as well as conferences, meetings, and symposia focusing on activism in the arts sector. In 2016, they began publicizing their work on the WAGENCY program.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Visual AIDS

Archived since: Oct, 2022

Description:

Visual AIDS is a New York City based contemporary arts organization committed to HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, a mission which the organization accomplishes through a number of visual art projects, by supporting artists living with the disease, and by honoring and preserving the legacies of artists who have passed away from HIV/AIDS-related complications. Visual AIDS produces public, inclusive, and accessible art projects that encourage reflection, dialogue, new scholarship and action. In addition to their exhibitions, public events, and publications, the organization collaborates year-round with teachers and students to facilitate research and special projects that address the underlying and related issues that contribute to and exacerbate the HIV/AIDS pandemic, such as poverty, homophobia, and racism.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Triple Canopy

Archived since: Oct, 2015

Description:

Triple Canopy is a magazine based in New York. Since 2007, Triple Canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and designers, Triple Canopy produces projects that demand considered reading and viewing. Triple Canopy resists the atomization of culture and, through sustained inquiry and creative research, strives to enrich the public sphere. Triple Canopy is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization and a member of Common Practice New York.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Theater for the New City

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

This collection contains the website for the Theater for the New City from 2009-2017. The website contains information about productions and production credits, schedules, a full production history from the 1970s-2007, a list of all of the awards TNC and TNC productions received since the 1970s, fundraising including the Mortgage Burning Celebration, personnel associated with the Theater, their volunteer program, and theater rental information and rates for their four stages. It also includes information on the Resident Theater Program, the Annual Summer Street Theater Tour, the Presenting Program, the Annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Annual Dance Concert and Pow-Wow; Arts in Education Program, and the Community Festival Program. It also includes a blog written by Crystal Field, the executive director and co-founder of the Theater for the New City. The blog was written in 2012 and covers topics such as the Street Theater, the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture,  Government - US States

Fales Library: The Fugs

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

The Fugs, a group of poet-musicians, were virtually conceived and developed on the off-Broadway stage. They performed first at the Bridge Theater. After a run of a full two weeks, Ed Sanders, poet, editor, owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store and leader of the group, decided the show was ready for a cross-country tour. In a borrowed Volkswagen bus, the Fugs stormed suprised academies from the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana to the University of Kansas and on to Berkeley. The Fugs satirized everything from political involvement and patriotism to rock and roll, from war and hate to super-abundant love. The Fugs performed about 15 of their 110 songs per show and presented 12 shows a week during their theater runs. Rather than object to the rigor of the long run, they became more and more intrigued by the possibibilities of the theater through constantly changing and adding to their repertoire. The Fugs were an ever-evolving improvisational review. The Fugs consisted of three members: Tuli Kupferberg, native New Yorker and one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time, Ken Weaver, humorist and poet, and Ed Sanders, poet and leader of the group.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Government - US States,  Society & Culture,  Beat generation--New York (State),  New York Protest songs,  Folk-rock music--New York (State),  Fugs (Musical group)

Fales Library: Terence Sellers

Archived since: May, 2016

Description:

Terence Sellers (1952-2016) was born to Robert and Gloria Sellers in Washington DC. From 1970-1973 she attended St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the Classical Studies department but did not complete her degree. She earned a BA in forensic psychology at John Jay College in New York City in 1986. In 1973 Sellers moved to New York City intending to pursue a career in writing and dance. Shortly after moving to New York she formed friendships with artists and writers including Anya Phillips, Kathy Acker, Duncan Smith, Victor Bockris, Carl Apfelschnitt, Jimmy De Sana and Duncan Hannah, many of which resulted in collaborations. For example, Sellers and Hannah worked on several projects together, including Amos Poe's 1978 film The Foreigner. Around the same time Sellers worked with photographer Jimmy De Sana on a series of 32 photographs entitled The Dungeon Series. The original intent of the project was to use the photographs in Sellers' then unpublished work The Correct Sadist. However, after the work was complete De Sana and William S. Burroughs used the photographs to illustrate their own book project, Submission. As a prolific writer, Sellers kept daily journals, maintained close correspondence with friends, family and colleagues, wrote a large volume of short stories and worked on several manuscripts. She was an early contributor to BOMB Magazine, X Magazine, Vacation and other publications devoted to New York's Downtown art, music, film and literary scene. Most of Sellers' writing is on the subject of sadomasochism. While her work as a professional dominatrix and her fascination with violence, self-punishment, the occult, and psychoanalysis has given shape to much of her writing, her literary influences include Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, and the French surrealists. Sellers' most famous work is a novel called the The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern. It is written as a collection of short case studies relating to themes of sexual dominance and submission, bondage and discipline, and fetishism. Originally published by iKoo-Buchverlg in Berlin in 1981 as Der korrekte Sadismus, Sellers self-published the work in English under Vitriol Publications in 1983. In 1985, Grove Press contracted the novel and Barney Rosset handled its publication. It is also published in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Sellers' other published novels include The Obsession, and Dungeon Evidence: The Correct Sadist II. Excerpts from other manuscripts such as The Degenerate, Most Ill of All and One Decadent Life have appeared in a wide range of publications in several languages. Sellers participated in events such as The Times Square Show (1980) and has read her work throughout the US, Europe and Canada. Although Sellers did not achieve the name recognition and literary success of some of her contemporaries, she is an important and influential member of the Downtown scene.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Sister Spit

Archived since: Feb, 2016

Description:

Sister Spit was an all woman, spoken word and performance series in San Francisco, founded by Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea. It ran weekly from 1994-2006, in opposition to the male dominated slam-poetry scene. Members included Lynn Breedlove, Tara Jepsen, Eileen Myles, Anna-Joy Springer, and Sash Sunday. Sister Spit went on tour as the Ramblin' Road Show in 1997 with tours through 2001. In 2007, the tour was revived as Sister Spit: The Next Generation annual tour. In 2022, the tour changed its name to Resplendent to be more inclusive of all genders. The website mostly contains information about their 1997, 1998, and 2001 Ramblin' Road Show tours, including biographies of performers, poems and writings by the performers, images from the tour, and tour diaries. It also includes information about the 2007 Sister Spit: The Next Generation tour. Sini Anderson's 2002-2005 website is also part of the Sister Spit website and features her tour dates in 2004, mp3s, photos, biography, and tech rider. Sister Spit performers included Sini Anderson, Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Samuael Topiary, Ali Liebegott, Sara Seinberg, Marci Blackman, Tara Jepsen, Harry Dodge, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Sarah West, Sash Sunday, Shoshana Von Blanckensee, Lynn Breedlove, Ida D. Acton, Beth Lisick, Shar Rednour, Stanya Kahn, Miranda Mellis, Alessandra Ogden, Carina Gia Sarrero, Nomy Lamm, Robin Akimbo, Rhiannon Argo, Nicole Georges, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, and Cristy C. Road.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Richard Berkowitz

Archived since: Aug, 2016

Description:

Richard Berkowitz (b. 1955) is a gay American author, AIDS activist, and former sex worker. He graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in communications in 1977. While at Rutgers, he wrote for the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum, and organized the first gay rights protest in New Jersey in 1976. After graduation, he attended New York University's (NYU) Graduate School of Film for one year. He moved to the Chelsea neighborhood of New York and worked as a sex worker, specifically as an S&M dominant, between 1978 and 1982. In the late 1970s, Berkowitz met Dr. Joseph Sonnabend while seeking treatment at the Gay Men's Health Project clinic in New York City. In 1982, Berkowitz was diagnosed with AIDS. In laying out treatment options, Sonnabend shared his multifactorial theory of AIDS, which held that AIDS was caused by repeated exposure to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), in particular cytomegalovirus, and semen. This theory was in opposition to the more widely held theory at the time that a single, new infectious agent was the cause of AIDS. Berkowitz felt that gay men needed to know their risk of contracting AIDS and Sonnabend offered to introduce him to another of his patients with AIDS, Michael Callen, who was also interested in spreading this information to the gay community. Together, the three men are credited with creating the concept of safe sex. Berkowitz and Callen formed the support group Gay Men with AIDS and began writing about the multifactorial theory, AIDS, and safe sex. They wrote We Know Who We Are, a warning to sexually active gay men with AIDS in New York, (published in the New York Native in 1982) and the first safe sex guide, How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach, published in 1983. They began making television appearances; speaking to support groups, legislators, and others; writing about AIDS; and were founding members of the People with AIDS Coalition. Callen died in 1993 from AIDS-related complications. Sonnabend co-founded the AIDS Medical Foundation in 1983, and continued writing about AIDS issues and serving in private practice until his retirement in 2005. Berkowitz continued to write about AIDS, safe sex, and gay rights issues throughout the 1980s and into the 2000s. He returned to sex work in the late 1980s, promoting himself as a safe sex S&M dominant in Florida and New York. In 2003 he published his autobiography, Stayin' Alive, and in 2008 was the subject of Sex Positive, a documentary written and directed by Daryl Wein.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Performa

Archived since: Mar, 2017

Description:

Performa is a New York City-based multidisciplinary non-profit arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Founded in 2004, Performa is the brainchild of art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, whose definitive book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979 and 2000), pioneered the study of performance art. In 2001, Ms. Goldberg originated and produced visual artist Shirin Neshat’s first live performance, Logic of the Birds, with critical and popular success in both New York and London. Evolved from this production, the idea came about to create the Performa biennial in 2005, called Performa 05, with a specially commissioned new performance at its core. The event offered a program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. It was a critical and popular success, setting a standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended events at more than twenty venues across the city during Performa 05’s entire three-week run. Since that first year, the Performa biennial has presented new works by artists working in performance, first performance works by artists working in other mediums, and re-staging of seminal performance works from history. The Performa biennial has taken place every other year since then and has become a crucial component of Performa’s mission.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Paper Tiger Television

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

Paper Tiger Television (PTTV), established in 1981, has been creating investigative and alternative media. The programs produced at PTTV inspire community productions and activism around the world. Its archive includes shows that provide critical analysis of media, educate about the communications industry and highlight issues that are absent from mainstream information sources. Through the production and distribution of public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings, videos on the website, and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for the long-term goal of information equity.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture,  Television--New York (State)--New York,  Paper Tiger Television Collective (Firm)

Fales Library: No Longer Empty

Archived since: Apr, 2022

Description:

No Longer Empty was an arts organization, established in 2009, that curates site-responsive exhibitions, education and public programs in unconventional locations around New York City. The collection is made up of the archived websites for the organization, focusing on their exhibits, events, and their education programs the Young Exhibition Makers and Youth Action Council. In July 2020, the organization ceased programming, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: New York Feminist Art Institute

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

This collection consists of the website for the New York Feminist Art Institute from 2010-2017, which documents the legacy of the organization. The website consists of a brief history of the organization, articles written about and for NYFAI, and the homepages of board members and instructors involved with NYFAI. The website also consists of digitized images, art, and catalogs created by members and the organization from 1979-1990. The website also documents the NYFAI oral history project, activities of former members of NYFAI, and events related to feminism and art in New York City.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Government - US States,  Society & Culture,  Political aspects-New York (State),  Political aspects,  Art,  New York,  New York (State),  Feminism and art

Fales Library: NYC Arts Community COVID-19 Response

Archived since: Apr, 2020

Description:

The New York City Arts Community COVID-19 Response Web Collection documents art galleries and art organizations use of their online presenece to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and by extension the Black Lives Matter movement. The collection consists of digital art exhibits that highlight existing work that relates to COVID-19 pandemic, especially art created during the AIDS epidemic. Other online art exhibits (and later in-person exhibits) highlight and commission new work, with focuses on themes such as mutual aid, community care, social distancing, the activity of creation during the pandemic, uncertainty, climate change, government aid (and lack thereof), mental health, the pandemic outside of New York, death, healing, and Black and transgender lives. The websites also focus on the organizations' shifts to virtual events, including reading series, book clubs, fundraisers, awards, and video programs. In addition, the websites also provide resources for artists related to mental and physical health, grants and fellowships, professional development tools to find jobs and present work online. This is an artificial collection, materials were selected by Fales curators and arranged by an archivist.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Science & Health,  Universities & Libraries

Fales Library: Linda Montano

Archived since: Feb, 2016

Description:

Linda Montano was born in 1942 in Saugerties, New York. Raised as a devout Roman Catholic, Montano's childhood was infused with a blended influence of Catholic ritual and artistic endeavor. After studying at the College of New Rochelle for a year, Montano joined the novitiate of the Maryknoll Sisters. She left the convent two years later, suffering from anorexia, and pursued an arts degree from the College of New Rochelle, graduating in 1965. Both the convent and the disorder would later become part of her performance life. During the '60s and early '70s, Montano developed an interest in performance art and graduated with an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. Her thesis project, The Chicken Show, was later adapted and became her first performance art piece, The Chicken Woman. Through the '70s, Montano's performances covered a variety of subjects, ranging from the influence of the Catholic Church on her life, to testing the boundaries of her physicality, and to the role healing practices can play in art. Montano's early performances include Handcuff (1973), in which she was handcuffed to artist Tom Marioni for three days, and Three Day Blindfold (1974). In 1983 and 1984, Montano participated in Tehching Hsieh's One Year Performance, in which the two artists were bound to each other by a short length of rope 24 hours a day for one year. In 1984, Montano began the performance Seven Years of Living Art, in which she lived out the energy qualities of a specific chakra for seven years. Montano has also performed Art/Life Counseling, at the New Museum and other venues, using palm, tarot, and psychic readings in order to respond to her subjects' problems in creative ways. Montano often appears and performs as Saint Teresa of Avila; Mother Teresa of Calcutta; Bob Dylan; Hillary Clinton, and Woodstock musician Paul McMahon. Montano has taught performance art at numerous institutions, most notably at the University of Texas at Austin. Her time there resulted in her book, Letters from Linda Montano, edited by Jennie Klein. In addition to teaching, Montano has written several other books, including You Too Are a Performance Artist, ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE, and a book of interviews entitled Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Judson Memorial Church Archive

Archived since: Sep, 2019

Description:

The Judson Memorial Church's (Washington Square, New York, New York) was established in 1839. Since its establishment, it has been a center of worship and of social activism such as civil rights, anti-war, reproductive rights, and the women's movement. In addition, it became a center for avant-garde art ranging from its role in the artistic revolt against Abstract Expressionism, to postmodern dance at the Judson Dance Theater, to the Judson Poets Theater.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: HERE

Archived since: Nov, 2016

Description:

HERE is a production organization located in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. The collaborative multiarts center has, since 1993, offered support in the form of produced works, commissions, and subsidized performance and rehearsal spaces for local, national, and international artists at all stages within their career who create multidisciplinary work, including hybrid performances in theater, dance, music, puppetry, media, and the visual arts. Many of the organization's original musical and dance works have been created and directed by HERE Co-Founder and Artistic Director Kristin Marting. Ultimately, HERE aims to integrate art into daily life, and they actively engage with their viewers through performance programming that typically includes work-in-progress showings, workshop productions, postshow artist talkbacks, and informal discussions in their café. Since their founding, HERE and the work presented HERE have garnered sixteen OBIE awards, two OBIE grants for artistic achievement, a 2006 Edwin Booth Award (for Outstanding Contribution to NY Theatre) from the CUNY Graduate Center, five Drama Desk nominations, two Berrilla Kerr Awards, four NY Innovative Theatre Awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. HERE has supported over 14,000 artists, attracted over 950,000 arts patrons, and engages an audience of about 40,000 viewers annually.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Guerrilla Girls Broadband

Archived since: May, 2016

Description:

Guerrilla Girls is an activist group of women artists advocating for gender equality in the art world. The group was formed in 1985 in response to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women. Dubbing themselves The Conscience of the Artworld, they started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. They assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing their true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities. Between 1985 and 2000, close to 100 women, working collectively and anonymously, produced posters, billboards, public actions, books and other projects to make feminism funny and fashionable. Guerrilla Girls Broad Band is one of three groups that splintered from the original Guerrilla Girls around 2000.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Guerrilla Girls

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminists devoted to fighting against sexism within the visual fine art world. Started in New York City in 1985 to protest gender and racial inequality in the art world, members are known for the gorilla masks they wear to keep their anonymity, as well as for taking pseudonyms of dead women artists. The website lists their art projects, videos, lectures and appearances, exhibitions, and action projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Government - US States,  Politics & Elections,  Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists),  Women artists--Political activity--United States.,  Art--Political aspects

Fales Library: Frederieke S. Taylor Papers

Archived since: Apr, 2019

Description:

Frederieke Taylor (1940-2018) was an art collector, curator, and administrator who exhibited contemporary art at the gallery she co-founded in SoHo in 1993. In the 1960s, she immigrated from the Netherlands. Taylor worked as director for the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and directed the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Taylor also curated and organized exhibitions, and coordinated Deconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1988. In 1993, Taylor opened TZ’Art, a gallery in SoHo, with a partner, Tom Zollner. After five years, Taylor took over sole ownership and renamed it the Frederieke Taylor Gallery. The artists, sculptors, and architects exhibited at the gallery include Lisa Sigal, Thomas Zummer, Mel Chin, Raimund Abraham, Long-Bin Chen and Meredith Monk.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Fortnight Journal

Archived since: Mar, 2015

Description:

Fortnight Journal was a project created by Samantha Hinds and Adam Whitney Nichols in 2010 to document individuals from the Millennial generation, people born from 1978-1990. Fortnight Journal was a publication of Fourteen Foundation Inc, a nonprofit devoted to reviving cross-generational mentorship by documenting and sustaining dialogue on traditional forms of practice. The The website was active from 2010-2012 and produced 4 editions from 14 contributors. Each contribution consisted of work produced by the subject as well as a short documentary on the individual.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Blogs & Social Media,  Society & Culture

Fales Library: Exit Art

Archived since: Jun, 2014

Description:

Founded by director Jeanette Ingberman and artist Papo Colo as an alternative art space in 1982, Exit Art was an interdisciplinary cultural center that presented innovative exhibitions, films and performances that reflected a commitment to contemporary issues and ideas. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art was always changing. During its first decade, Exit Art presented artists whose work challenged notions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and equality. It mounted a series of mid-career retrospectives which helped to bring wider public attention and critical acclaim to artists who are now firmly established, including Jimmie Durham, Willie Birch, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Tehching Hsieh, Martin Wong, Adrian Piper, David Wojnarowicz and David Hammons. In its second decade, Exit Art identified a new generation of young, emerging artists with diverse backgrounds and organized a series of exhibitions, launching the careers of artists such as Shirin Neshat, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Roxy Paine, Patty Chang, Julie Mehretu, Sue DeBeer, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Chakaia Booker. Fever (1992), the first exhibition in the series, was named one of the ten most important shows of the decade by Peter Plagens in Newsweek. In its final decade, Exit Art became a leading voice in experimental art, producing exhibitions that illuminated the pressing issues of its time while supporting artists whose works reflected cultural transformations. By 2012, its 30th and final year, Exit Art had organized more than 200 exhibitions, events, festivals and programs featuring more than 2,500 artists.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture

Fales Library: Dixon Place

Archived since: Oct, 2015

Description:

Dixon Place is an experimental nonprofit theater in New York that supports original theater, puppetry, dance, music, and circus arts. It was first conceived in 1985 in the Paris apartment of artistic director Ellie Covan. In 1986, Covan began the theater in her East First Street apartment with a weekly reading series called Tuesdays at Dixon Place. In 1991, Dixon Place moved to a location on the Bowery and in 1999 became the resident company at Vineyard Theater. Dixon Place served as an incubator for artists such as Deb Margolin, Blue Man Group, John Leguizamo, Lisa Kron, David Cale, Penny Arcade, and Reno. In 2009, Dixon Place moved into its permanent home on Chrystie Street. The space consists of a 150 person theater, lounge, and bar.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Fales Library: Deep Dish TV

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

Deep Dish TV was launched in 1986 by Paper Tiger TV as a distribution network, linking independent producers, programmers, community-based activists and viewers who support movements for social change and economic justice. The network has produced and distributed over 300 hours of television series that challenge the suppression of awareness, the corruption of language, and the perversion of logic that characterizes so much of corporate media. Deep Dish TV is committed to democratizing media by providing a national forum for programming created by community-based organizations and independent producers. Their programs are shown on over 200 public access cable stations around the country, on selected PBS stations, and received by thousands of satellite dish viewers nationwide on Free Speech TV channel 9415 on the DishNetwork and LinkTV on DirecTV.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture,  Public-access television--United States,  Deep Dish TV Network

Fales Library: ACT UP New York

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

This collection contains the websites for ACT UP New York, collected from 2008-2017. The website contains a timeline and history of the organization; information on their weekly Monday meetings; information on actions and demonstrations dating back to 1999 to 2007; zines and other organizing documents; treatment information; a t-shirt gallery; and information of the 20th anniversary commemoration of the organization. The website also has information and actions related to two affinity groups, DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) and YELL (Youth Education Life Line). Issues that the organization focused on in the 2000s included police surveillance, AIDS denialism, HIV testing, HIV/AIDS in New York State prisons,George W. Bush and Republication politician attacks on HIV/AIDS education and prevention, international AIDS conferences, HIV immigration and travel ban, AIDS activism in China, high drug prices, and promotion of media related to ACT UP. In 2015 they stopped actively updating https://actupny.org/ and mostly updated at http://actupny.com/actions/. In addition to news and press releases dating back to 2009, the website mostly has information about the Robin Hood Tax Demonstration on April 20, 2013.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Government - US States,  Gay liberation movement--New York (State)--New York,  AIDS activists--New York (State)--New York,  ACT UP New York (Organization)

Edible Magazines (New York)

Archived since: Nov, 2013

Description:

Covers four editions of Edible Magazine (Manhattan, Brooklyn, New jersey, and Hudson Valley).

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Science & Health,  Society & Culture,  Food Studies

Avery Fisher Center: Shelley Hirsch

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

A singer, performer, and composer, Shelley Hirsch (born 1952) lives and works in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Her artwork consists of musical composition, multimedia performances, and collaborations with contemporary and improvisational musicians, visual artists, and new media artists.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Michael Robinson

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

Michael Robinson is a prolific American composer who uses various instruments to create and perform his South Asian and European inspired music. Active since 1969, he has composed over 450 pieces on 113 albums. He has been a lecturer at such institutions as UCLA, Bard College, and California State University, and has produced a series of interviews with masters of various music styles. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture

Avery Fisher Center: Marc Ribot

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Marc Ribot (1954- ) is an American guitarist and composer associated with avant-garde music, free jazz, no wave, rock, and Cuban musical styles. In addition to his original compositions, he has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborated with artists including Tom Waits, John Zorn, The Lounge Lizards, and Elvis Costello. He has been a part of multiple ensembles, including Ceramic Dog, Dreamers, and the Marc Ribot Trio. Ribot was a notable figure in the 1990s New York avant-garde movement of Jewish musicians referred to as Radical Jewish Culture.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: K. Marie Kim

Archived since: Jan, 2018

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The website contains examples of her compositions in the form of embedded audio and video files and a biography of the artist. Kim's music incorporates several instruments and electronic elements. She is also a sound engineer and performer on the cello and piano. Capture of the site began in May 2017.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture

Avery Fisher Center: Julie Kathryn

Archived since: Jan, 2018

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Julie Kathryn Franco is a female music artist who grew up in Lake Placid, New York and currently lives in New York City. She was a social worker for several years before she began recording her music. She was raised performing music, and has experimented with several styles in her recording career. She put out her first Americana Noir EP, Broken Love, in 2012 under the name Julie Kathryn, followed by her first full-length album, Black Trees, in 2013. In 2014, she embarked on a new musical project under the name I Am Snow Angel to explore self-produced electronica.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Julie Covello

Archived since: Jan, 2018

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Julie Covello is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and webcast host. She lives and works in New York, New York. She performs as DJ Shakey and has collaborated with Banginclude in Asstronauts; with Terry Dame and Dawn Drake in Daughter of Darrr; with Aaron Goldsmith in FreeBassBK; in The Funky Beatbots; and with Kathleen Cholewka in Opal Crocus. Between 1998 and 2000, she was the host of The Near Death Experience Show, an extreme metal video and interview webcast on pseudo.com. She founded the Warper Party, an electronic music and art showcase in New York, in 2006. She was an artist in residency at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan in 2011-2012.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Guy Klucevsek

Archived since: May, 2017

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Guy Klucevsek (1947- ) is an American accordionist and composer active in jazz, avant-garde, and free improvisation. Klucevsek was born in New York City and raised outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has released over 20 albums as a leader or co-leader, and has recorded or performed with Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson and others. He is also a founding member of the international group Accordion Tribe.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Frank London

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

Sir Frank London is a musician, band leader, and composer based in New York City. Since receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Afro-American music from the New England Conservatory in 1980, London has had an active career in klezmer and world music, playing not only trumpet, but also other wind instruments, keyboards, and occasionally singing backup vocals. Although London is perhaps best known for his role as trumpeter in the klezmer band The Klezmatics, he also leads Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars and is a member of the Hasidic New Wave. Additionally, he is the co-founder of both the Les Misérables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band; has composed numerous works for theater, dance, and film; and has acted as an in-demand sideman for a diverse group of artists, both on stage and in the studio. To date, London has released 30 solo recordings and has been featured on more than 400 CDs. London has received many awards for his contribution to music, as well as for his efforts towards the preservation of Hungarian-Jewish culture. On May 31, 2015, London was awarded Kraków, (Poland's) Medal Honoris Gratia by the municipality of Kraków’s mayor, Jacek Majchrowski. A year later he was knighted, receiving the Hungarian Order of Merit Knight's Cross. London continues to play concerts, festivals, and other events across the globe and is a regular participant in New York’s downtown club scene. London is also currently a professor within the Music Department of Purchase College (SUNY Purchase) in New York.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

Avery Fisher Center: Bit Rosie

Archived since: Sep, 2016

Description:

Bit Rosie is a web series about female music producers directed, produced, and edited by Adele Fournet between 2015 and 2016. The project sought to highlight the work of women creating electronic music and to disseminate their work. The Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series include 33 video recordings created by Fournet and the website, bitrosie.com, on which the recordings were posted. The recordings include full-length and edited interviews with and performances by 11 of the 12 female music producers and groups featured on bitrosie.com. The Bit Rosie website includes the edited interviews and video recordings of performances. The interviews include discussions of the type of music the women create and produce, their creative influences and processes, and their feelings about being women in a male-dominated field.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

African American Issues

Archived since: Aug, 2011

Description:

Content includes African American news and opinion websites.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Politics & Elections