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New Red Order with Emmett de Muzio Hello, World!, detail, 2021 Wood with silicone, iPads, red feather, and polyester knit fabric step-and-repeat. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of an exhibition space with a sculpted, larger than life head that hangs in the mezzanine.] -
Min Joong Art. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [Several people seated on a couch watch a monitor set on a pedestal in front of them. A large speaker is placed to the right of the screen, and on the wall alongside this are two rows of black and white photographs.] -
Installation view of Social Disease and Two Possibilities, Artists Space, April 12, 1986 - May 10, 1986. [A color television CRT monitor is visible with a man's face on it. This monitor is shrouded in darkness and some indistinguishable object appears to be touching the screen.] -
Hito Steyerl, Red Alert, 2007. Installation on 3 computer monitors. Courtesy of the artist. [Three red-orange panels in white frames hang on a white wall in an open space.] -
Portrait of Eiko Ishibashi [A color photograph of a figure in a pointed hat with a wide brim, wearing a black and white robe. The figure is pictured amid tree branches and vines that block their face. They hold a twisted vine in their left hand.] -
New Red Order: Feel at Home Here. Installation view, Artists Space, May 19 – August 21, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A wide angle image of a dark exhibition space, on the left a large projection is shown on a long wall, on the right photograph negatives hang off a wall.] -
New Red Order Give it Back, detail, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York [An image of a magazine rack with numerous copies of a magazine with a city-scape is positioned upside down, the point of the skyscraper reaching towards the bottom of the image. Googley eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth are drawn near the top of the building. Red serif font across the top of the image reads "The New Red Times Magazine." White serif font in the bottom left corner reads "TIRED OF LIVING ON STOLEN LAND?" Below, red serif font reads "GIVE IT BACK."] -
Jim Pavlicovic. Installation view featuring Jim Pavlicovic, from Gerry Morehead, Jim Pavlicovic, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of a figure standing in a gallery space, looking towards the camera. On the wall behind them, several canvases with no discernable markings hang.] -
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Yasunao Tone and Suzanne Fletcher performing Voice and Phenomenon, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1976. [Black-and-white photograph of a TV against a brick wall, connected to a camera recording directly above a spotlighted chair and desk. A figure sits across the empty chair at the desk, while another figure kneels down to the left side of the desk working on something.] -
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Sigmar Polke Socken , 1963 Courtesy the Estate of Sigmar Polke © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn [An image of three red socks, accordion folded in the center of the leg.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of the corner of a gallery space. On the left white wall, a collection of six framed black and white photographs are arranged in a grid. Each frame is black, with three on the top and three on the bottom. On the right wall are four paper-based items hung in a row. The right-most item is an enlarged map, next to it are three smaller pieces of paper with handwritten notes and drawings. ] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a room with black walls. A figure stands behind a harp, next to a stool and music stand. A spotlight shines on the harp. In the middle of the space is a hanging screen that plays a projected video of a close-up of a face.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with a sculpture made of two fresnel lenses cut in the shape of wings hung on the back of a pillar to the left of the image. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
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Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [Two figures in dark clothing stand before two music stands in front of a seated audience. The figure on the right appears to read from a text propped on the stand, while the figure on the left looks towards the audience, speaking and gesturing towards them with one hand.] -
[The word "WAGE" with periods seperating each letter appears on a multi-colored background. The "A" in "WAGE" is colored yellow.] -
Installation View from Recent Art From Chicago, Artists Space, March 8, 1986 - April 5, 1986. [Cutouts seen placed in front of drawing on wall. Paintings and sculptures can be seen in the area around it in a gallery setting.] -
[A photo of a city alleyway acts as the background for this image. Superimposed on the photo are two groups of people in motion with right arms raised, holding cellphones. The group on the right faces toward the viewer, the group on the left faces away.] -
Christa Blatchford, still from See Around, 2008. [Four images arranged horizontally. From left to right: solid gray-blue, a gray-blue toned image of a shoreline, a gray toned image of a shoreline, and a gray toned image of a shoreline with a subtle pink sunrise in the sky.] -
Selections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Dark photograph of a plywood sculpture with shelves in a gallery space.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view (toutouni, 2023; bwa, 2023; Ruin, 2023), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. From left to right: a shovel with an iron claw at the base, a tree log on a pedestal and another tree log on pedestal, with a griffon vulture perched on the branch.] -
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Alan Michelson. Permanent Title, 1993. Wax, muslin, charcoal. Overall: 144 x 144 x 9 in. (366 x 366 x 23 cm). Courtesy the artist. [Eleven brown bags of varying sizes are displayed on a wall, pinned so that their mouths hang open slightly. Charcoal rubbings on the bags trace out corporate logos and other words and phrases.] -
New Economy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [An installation view of multiple sewing stations and a clothing rack of red and white sweatshirts.] -
Vaginal Davis, The White to Be Angry (still), 1999. [A grainy black and white photo of a woman craning her head and shoulders, looking into a large camera. In the background there are trees with leaves.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of a large painting of vines and water hanging on a white gallery wall. Beyond it, more painting and sculptures are visible in an adjacent gallery.] -
Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, Alexandra Auder. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, and Alexandra Audler stand together and smile at the camera in front of a red wall with an illusionistic landscape view inside a painted pointed arch window. ] -
Michael Brewster, An Acoustic Sculpture, A Clicker Drawing. View from Opening, April 2, 1977, Artists Space. [A black and white photograph of a person standing in a doorframe. On the left, a broom rests against the wall. A circular window behind a radiator is visible on the right. Buckets of paint and painting rollers are scattered across the floor.] -
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Twerk (New York: Belladonna Books, 2015). [A book cover design featuring large pink text that reads, "TWERK" against an abstract turquoise background. Parts of the letter "K" and "T" extend off the page and have been overlaid with a lacy ribbon pattern.] -
Union Gaucha Productions in collaboration with Fabio Kacero. Still from Totloop, 2003. 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec. Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions. [A portrait of Jonas Mekas in Rembrandt lighting looking directly into the camera, wearing his signature fedora and standing against a black background.] -
[Black, Arial text, reads, "The Library of Helen DeWitt."] -
Log Cabin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [Several sculptures, paintings, video works, and photographs installed in a gallery space with wooden flooring. A sculpture consisting of a white panel affixed to a wooden board upon which two striped rocks rest is installed on the ground. A TV monitor is installed in the room's corner directly behind the sculpture. The portion of the wall directly behind the TV monitor has been covered with a grid of poster-like images. Three color photographs and two paintings with muted purple and gray tones frame the monitor on its left and right sides.] -
Still from The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009). [A white bust with a plaque reading "DEFOE" below it. Slightly offset and partially in shadow is a man seen in profile, dressed identically to the bust with a powdered wig.] -
Cover of Christopher D'Arcangelo, Kunstverein Publishing and Artists Space. Photo: Cathy Weiner. [Scan of the cover and back cover of a book. On the front cover, black text on a white background reads "Christopher D'Arcangelo." The back cover features a black-and-white photograph of a figure doing a headstand, their back facing the viewer. The figure is shirtless, exposing black text written on their skin.] -
Four Artists: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985. [Circular sculptural forms hang from the ceiling and touch the floor in a white-walled gallery space.] -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A bookshelf constructed from cardboard boxes sits slightly raised off the ground on a low platform. The top two rows face away from the camera, while the bottom two face out, filled with books. Opposite that is a white wall with blue text reading "Artists Space."] -
Tim Doud, 2001. [A painting of a bald man with glasses looking off to the side. He wears a red Lacoste polo shirt.] -
[Collaged atop a purple, pink, and orange field is a series of abstract graphic and typewritten elements, including a man's face with a bandana covering his mouth. In the bottom left corner an upside down text reads "ABASEMENT 61." Smaller text above lists the participating musicians and artists.] -
Tiffany Sia, Barriers Buy Time, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a bookshelf lined with books covered in silver mylar.] -
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[An image of rocks, trees and coastline overlooking a large body of water. Collaged on top of the photograph are cutouts of flowers, carved stones, and a mosaic. Gray text gives details about a virtual reading event, with zoom meeting information written in yellow at the bottom.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A continuous strip extends around the perimeter of the room, hung up on the walls. The strip alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.] -
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Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Four collages, framed in a grid on a wall. Each collage features the same backdrop of a man stopped in the middle of the road opening the hood a car, the drivers seat door opened. Each collage features a different colored filter, arranged with images of various Indigenous people on reservations, European historical paintings, animals, gags, signs, objects, and detritus.] -
Ei Arakawa: WEWORK BABIES. Performance documentation, December 8, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A man stands in the center of a room holding numerous baby dolls, surrounded by several performers striking yoga poses and a small crowd. A makeshift geometric metal structure stands next to him, with a baby doll sitting in a crease of the structure.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, September 16, 2022 - December 3, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [Image of the street outside the gallery, looking into an alleyway with a white pillared building on the right with purple light showing behind the windows.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [A series of books sit at eye level on a wall that displays a black and white photographic collage graphic behind them.] -
Salad Days. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A rectangular, 3x5 grid hung on a white wall, comprised of close-up photographs of the inside of people's mouths. Just in front of the wall to the left of the photographs, there is a white plinth with a black Converse shoe, a false shin extending out of it, with a metal bone coming out of the top.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage, standing in front of various types of electronic audio equipment. They are wearing a monochromatic purple outfit and glasses. The wall behind them is decorated with blue, orange, and purple projections. The left side of the room is lit with small blue dots reflecting from a disco ball. A few audience members are visible in the bottom edge of the image.] -
[A pattern consisting of blue prints of delicate flowers repeats across a white surface. The image resembles wallpaper.] -
Production still from Black Picture Show, 1978, picturing Sam Waymon. Photo: Marshall Johnson. Image courtesy of the artist. [A black-and-white photograph of a figure sitting in front of a microphone. The left side of their face and body is in shadow.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of a large gallery space with multiple rooms visible. In the foreground, the floor is covered with flooring, except for a silhouette of a human figure which has been cut out of the flooring, through which the concrete below is visible. Two geometric abstract paintings hang on the wall above.] -
[Eight pieces of paper with text in various languages arranged in a grid.] -
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled, 2011 (print mo’ money), 2011, Copper etching plate, Signed certificate. [A printing plate for a $100,000 bill, featuring a portrait of Woodrow Wilson.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A dimly lit, empty room filled with low chairs. A projection illuminates a dark wall opposite the chairs and displays an image of a man with tan skin and facial hair, wearing a keffiyeh.] -
Artists Space founder Irving Sandler, Miyoko Ito Dinner, 2018. [Two people stand at the foot of an empty table, mid-conversation, looking off-camera to the left. The individual on the left holds a glass of wine.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Candice Hill-Montgomery. [Black and white photograph of white picket fence opening with dark painted background behind it.] -
Still from Fiction Contract, 2025. [Close-up of a black person leaning over a black birthing mannequin laying on a hospital bed in a patient room.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A continuous strip extends around the perimeter of the room, hung up on the walls. The strip alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.] -
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée (New York: Tanam Press, 1982), 74 - 75. [A two-page spread from the novel Dictée shows four diagrams of a human larynx and neck on the left-hand page and a page of writing from the novel on the right.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit leans their arms on top of a rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses, pushing it toward another figure that stands in front of them filming them. In the background a third figure in a blue morph suit sits and leans down on top of a rectangular wooden frame. Blue footage is projected onto the back wall.] -
Charles Simonds. Still from Mythologies, 1974. From Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, James Biederman, Charles Simonds, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white still of a hand delicately reaching out to touch a stone surface.] -
[Black text that reads, "9/11, TRILOGY, Laura Poitras."] -
Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 6 / Charles Alexander / Laura Jaramillo.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)" -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [An angled view of 4 book stands perpendicular to a wall, all displaying various books, documents, and papers.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Two figures stand facing one another, smiling. One wears a baseball cap and the other holds a camera.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a red sweater stands on stage, with three microphones placed around them. They hold a white conch shell in their hands, their mouth is open.] -
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The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [A seven shelf, white, book case is housed full of various colorful and sized books.] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A brightly painted red wall with the phrase “TWO-WAY” centered in large white text. The floor in front of the wall, and to the side is covered in a pattern of light blue linoleum tiles. Brown columns stretch into the darkness behind the wall.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (Movements in the Snow, 1990, Herbal Chart, c. 1980), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a floorbound television monitor, showing a figure in a snow bank. Above is an annotated drawing of a human figure.] -
Collaborative team working on chandelier, 2018 [Two girls stand, cutting threads, while working on a handmade chandelier. The chandelier has a small number of flower petals, with a purple rose in the center] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Close up of three figures standing side by side. The figure on the right raises a fist in the air and appears to shout towards the figures on their left. They wear glasses and an intricate, gold and black collar piece. The figure directly to their left gazes downwards, pressing their fingers to their temples.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Several figures fill a dimly lit, basement room. Some figures sit and talk on large couches, while others stand and talk to each other. Video projections play on two of the space’s walls.] -
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SCRAAATCH, Tower of Babel, 2019, Les Urbaines. Photo: Mathilda Olmi [Two figures perform in front of large projected images.] -
Anne Bray. Man on First and Third, 1987. Slide/Sound Installation. [A black and white photograph with two projectors hanging central with projections on one wall and another hanging screen in a gallery space.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A brown paper bag, opened and placed at an angle, with colored pencil illustrations of a balding man wearing sunglasses and a blue collared shirt, face slightly covered by a translucent red figurative silhouette, and along the other side of the bag, a white daisy with a long green stem.] -
P.S. 140 student workshopping poems, 2019 [Two people stand at the front of a full classroom in front of a projector screen that says, "Poetry workshop / Ms. Rebecca / Today's task: create headline poems." One reads from a notebook, the other listens on.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure reads into a microphone, glancing at their phone.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A figure in a blue dress sits behind a white table, facing an audeince and reading into a microphone. On the wall behind the presenter are two projected screens. The right screen depicts a table with a notebook, someone's hand turning the pages of the notebook, and an array of dried coral pieces. On the left screen is an image of the ocean and sky.] -
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Union Gaucha Productions Still from Totloop , 2003 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec Collaboration with Fabio Kacero Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions [An overexposed image of a person looking at the camera, their face partially obscured by the exposure.] -
Rachel Harrison, What the world needs now, 2009, Inkjet print on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk, 310 gsm 22 x 17 in / 55,9 x 43,2 cm, Signed and numbered [A black-and-white scan of a page of The New York Times newspaper, folded in half lengthwise. A translucent geometric pattern is visible across the image, with washed out pinks, greens, blues, and yellows. The visible story is a continuation from the story featured on the first arts page, titled "Foundation's New Prize To Honor Artists Under 35." Above the title is a photo of Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian businessman and art collector. Below the title is six images of "artist-mentors:" Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, and institutional board members Nicholas Serota and Glenn D. Lowry of the Tate and MoMA, respectively. Each of the six figures has a color wig, bright lipstick, and two have glasses, giving each a goofy appearance.] -
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Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of the enterance into the exhibition. A sign reading: "J.D. Grocery" is placed above a doorway. A wooden awning meant to look like a roof of a building goes across the width of the partition wall. The doorway is flanked by a cardboard fire hydrant and a box television on a small wooden chair. Through the doorway, three bar stools and a bookshelf with books and home goods are visable.] -
Avery Singer, The Studio Visit, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. [Abstract painting of two people sitting at a table, having a conversation.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Diana Cage & Jackie Ess. Saturday March 20, 2021, Artists Space. [A yellow colored background features black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / Diana Cage & Jackie Ess / March 20 / 5pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a glass vitrine containing various archival time-banking ephemera.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view (Timo, 2023; Adobera 1 (adobe brick mold), 2023; Sancha, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with paintings done on adobe panels that rest on steel armatures, and are laid out around the space. The artworks depict paintings of various figures. On the wall hangs a wooden ladder horizontally.] -
The Serving Library. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A three-shelf, wooden bookshelf sits in a small enclave in a white-walled room. Various multicolored books fill the shelves and additional books rest on top of the bookshelf. Installed on the wall directly to the right of the shelf is a glowing, red neon tube that gently illuminates the room.] -
ART CLUB2000 Selections from ART CLUB2000 archive, detail, 1992–1999 Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A glass case displaying archival documents and images] -
Jamil Shammout and Michel Najjar paint the banner for The International Art Exhibition for Palestine. Beirut, 1978. Courtesy Claude Lazar [Two men drawing on a large cloth sign in Arabic and English, stating "INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION FOR PALESTINE".] -
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Social Surfaces. Installation view, Pearl River Mart, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [An opened case, with camera equipment resting inside gray foam, is displayed in the center of a room. A large black and white painting with text is hung on a wall underneath a hanging sculpture. In the background, individual papers of beer logos are displayed behind glass, stretching across two connecting walls.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A corner made by two white walls. One wall has four framed images of yellow amorphus shapes on different backrounds, arranged in a horizontal line. The other wall has three framed images, one hung by itself and the other two stacked vertically.] -
Wish I Were Here. Photo: Alexandra Stock. [A young boy with his arms outstretched leans against a wall. The wall is covered with a larger than life photograph of a crowd of people holding flags and signs, as in a protest or a rally.] -
[A hand extends its fingers admist a shower of droplets of liquid. A bright light shines on the hand and droplets.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Small house-like wooden sculptures appear on a table with a large white image on the ground between them. A video monitor and framed images are visible in the background.] -
Portrait of Ciarán Finlayson. [A figure, sitting in profile and centered within the frame, speaks into a microphone.] -
Social Surfaces. Installation view, Alexander and Bonin, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [A wide blue mop with a yellow handle is tethered to a white pillar by a black cord, and is stretched with the handle angled forward. Resting against the pillar is a tv, angled and facing slightly leftwards, displaying a sculpture in a parking lot.] -
Louisa Chase. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of a sculpture. The piece features various triangular ramps, wooden square blocks, and curved wooden pieces with wheels, all placed on a wooden floor.] -
[An orange flyer features black sans serif text that reads: "Artists for ARTISTS SPACE / a benefit exhibition / April 27–May 13, 2023." Underneath is the list of participating artists: "Richard Aldrich, Ei Arakawa, Oto Gillen, Renee Gladman, Robert Gober, Richard Hawkins, G. Peter Jemison, Sanya Kantarovsky, Danny McDonald, Julie Mehretu, Jill Mulleady, Ulrike Müller, Yoshitomo Nara, Elizabeth Peyton, Pope.L, Andy Robert, Julia Rommel, Cosima von Bonin."] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A band plays on stage, with a figure playing the piano in the foreground of the image, while another plays congas behind him. A third figure plays the tuba in the background.] -
Rip It Up and Start Again. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A series of photographs are installed on a white gallery wall above a series of pipes that run horizontally along the wall. The photographs depict figures superimposed by saturated imagery.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a suit performs on stage, reading into a microphone off sheets on a music stand in front of them.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure sits behind a table, looking at a laptop screen, their face resting in their hand and a microphone placed next to their face.] -
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Judit Kurtág. Still from Episode, 2007. [A black and white image of a person's face against a white tiled wall, with water pouring down over her.] -
Bases of the equestrian monument to Kaiser Wilhem which was destroyed by the British occupation in Münster after World War II. The photographs were printed as post cards in the early 20th century and collected from eBay and oldthing.de in 2021. [A black and white photograph of the base of a monument in a city square. Steps lead up to a pedastal surrounded by three large spheres connected by a metal chain.] -
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Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Haim Steinbach. [View of colorful panelled designed wall with shelves holding plants and other items. A blue desk with pamphlets on them is visible in the front left corner which is near a doorway into another room.] -
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab. The Transborder Immigrant Tool, 2007–ongoing. Pages excerpted from The Transborder Immigrant Tool publication. Courtesy the artist, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and University of California, San Diego. [The Spanish translation of the poem “La cholla, o cactus saltador, se agarra.../Cholla, or jumping cactus, attaches...” is shown above a thin grey horizontal line, below which appears the English translation of the same poem.] -
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[White text overlays a green and brown background. The text reads: “May 6 / stefa marin alarcon / zavé martohardjono." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Fifth Season Act, Apotheosically. Performance documentation, May 31, 2012, Artists Space. [A crowd if people sit on wooden chairs in a large gallery space. The crowd forms a semi-circle around a portion of the gallery floor covered in a brown, dirt-like material. A woman in a white suit stands amonst the debris and speaks into a microphone in front of a sculpture composed of a large pane of glass.] -
Charles Simonds. Still from Mythologies, 1974. From Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, James Biederman, Charles Simonds, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white film still of two figures on a sidewalk, one stands against a stone wall looking through a small opening in the stone.] -
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. [Sixty images with dark backgrounds and a white, pixelated spot emanating from their centers arranged in a grid formation on an indigo blue gallery wall.] -
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[Black and white image of an unmade bed under a wall covered with small images of people and idols.] -
Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A center-parted white chiffon curtain revealing a set of six framed images mounted on the wall. A white bar runs slightly right of center of the image.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Various figures stand around a table with a mannequin on it. The mannequin is obscured by foliage and flowers.] -
Rummana Hussain, Living on the Margins, 1995. Video, color, sound; 28 minutes. Courtesy Rummana Hussain Family Collection. [Rummana Hussain stands in an open courtyard cradling half a papaya in her hands, her mouth wide open in a silent scream. Behind her, indigo powder is scattered across the pavement.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [The gallery space displays an assortment of artworks on the left wall. On the far left, closest to the viewer, is a painting of Pope Francis with a top text reading "I WOKE UP LIKE THIS" and a bottom text reading "...FLAWLESS." An assortment of art objects, shelves, framed paintings, sculptural installations, and digital media recede into the gallery space along this wall. On the right a row of columns recede into the gallery space.] -
We Are The History of the Future: Listening to the LES online presentation, My Story Our Story Quilt, P.S. 140 7th grade students [A screenshot of a video call presentation. Names of individuals are weaved together digitally in a quilt-like fashion. These names are flanked on the right side by the images of ten individuals who are joining the call remotely.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure wearing a conical sheath of reflective one-way mirror film. They stand in the corner of a dark room, shining a bright light against the wall behind them. Their silhouette can be vaguely seen under the mirror film.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Closeup view of three small framed works on paper hanging on a white gallery wall. The works feature detailed, abstract calligraphic strokes in black, orange, and chartreuse.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Black-and-white image of three figures performing in a band on stage, the right figure plays the saxophone, the middle figure plays the drums, and the right figure plays a synthesizer.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a pale yellow background, with red and orange accents throughout. Cut up pieces of light pink paper are scattered throughout the image, and feature typewritten text listing the performers and event details.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A wooden bar with four chairs and a palm tree in a pot is displayed against a white wall.] -
Crystal Z Campbell: Ode to the Underloved. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of the entrance into a gallery space. A blue wall juts out to create a small entrance on the righthand side. Along the floor is a walkway made of plywood. In the center of the room is a projected video onto the floor.] -
Catherine Ross, still from Fingering and Footing, 2005. [A split screen of two people, each visible between their nose and their chest. Both are extremely excited, with their hands raised up.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Gary Burnley. [A black and white photograph of a multicolored globe sitting on a wooden floor.] -
The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life. Installation View. Artists Space, 1986. [A headless woman in a white dress slumps next to a bust of a man's head lying on the floor. A fuzzy television screen background appears the figure.] -
[A grid of pink hearts on a blue background.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (various flyers and photographs by Johanna Went, c. 1970s-90s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [A wall that has various posters, photographs, and collages hanging from it.] -
Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free: A History of Squat Theatre. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [A person looks at several sheets of paper with text and black and white photographs mounted on a wall. Hanging just above the papers is a sculpture of a human head with blonde wig.] -
[Graphic logo reads I ♥ John Giorno in red text.] -
[Black text on an orange background. The text reads: “Oct 19 / Xavier Cavazos / Pamela Booker.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
SCRAAATCH, Tower of Babel, 2019, Les Urbaines. Photo: Mathilda Olmi [In front of a large colorful projection, a figure wearing headphones around their neck leans down over musical technology.] -
Installation view of Social Disease and Two Possibilities, Artists Space, April 12, 1986 - May 10, 1986. [A close-up view of an image on a television monitor with a blue tint. The image appears to be a portion of a person's face.] -
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The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [Gray silhouettes are displayed on adjacent walls. Miscellaneous items are displayed on gray tables. A microphone and its extended wire lays on the floor in front of a speaker.] -
A member of the collective Winter Count working on the film We Are in Crisis, 2016, North Dakota. [An over-the-shoulder photo of a person holding a boom microphone pointed at a small oil pipeline fire several dozen feet away.] -
Julianne Swartz, Line Drawing, 2002. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. [Close-up image of a peep hole installed in a light mauve wall. Through the peep hole, a figure wearing a blue shirt and black pants is visible in profile. Their image is warped by the surface of the peep hole, swirling and reflecting around the hole.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [Along the wall is a glass display case holding ephemera, hanging above are two black and white contact sheets.] -
Richard Klauber. Installation view, Ruth Hardinger, Richard Klauber, Artists Space, 1975. [A color installation photograph of a black and white abstract painting on a white background.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Contact sheet of installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of installation images showing artwork hung up on walls .] -
Sean Snyder, still from Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars, 2004-5. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London. [A person in army camouflage and a military gun grabs a handful of packaged cookies from a stand selling assorted candies, snacks, sodas, and other food.] -
Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A room full of audience members in a pink-tinted room. The people in the front are sitting, and the ones behind are standing close together. Many people are clapping. The room is filled with patterns of white dots reflecting from a disco ball.] -
Jerry Beck, Red Earth Cross, 1985. [A sculpted cross appears on a larger sculpted cross along with a small bottle on its left, a ladder inset on the right and an open text on the bottom part. All is hung on a white gallery wall and dimensions are written above the sculpture in pencil.] -
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Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer standing on stage in front of a circular table. The performer bends over slightly to play music from a laptop and soundboard. Their face leans into a microphone while looking stage right at a music stand placed next to the circular table. A blue light emitted from a projector covers the whole stage and casts shadows of the performer and their setup onto the back wall. ] -
Milford Graves at the Festival d'Automne à Paris, 1974, Black and white photograph. © Philippe Gras [A black and white photograph of a man in a leopard print costume standing center stage with his hands up and palms open facing toward the viewer. He stands with his legs outstretched and behind him rests a drum set which sits next to a gong. Microphones are positioned near his body, one on each side.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [A light sculpted figure appears on a pedestal in the foreground and behind it appears a map with images of humans and nature.] -
[Black, typed text that reads, " Everything is About to Happen: An ongoing archive of artists’ books selected by Gregorio Magnani."] -
Jack Smith. Still from *Flaming Creatures, 1962-63. [A woman screaming while two men hold her down and touch her breasts.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement with various sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed around the space. Contact microphones are attached to the fresnel lenses and audio wires wrap around the floor. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Projections of elongated gold figures.] -
Seth Price,Postcard Style Place, 2018, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [An image featuring an oblong golden form whose top portion has a shiny, defined metallic surface. Its bottom half, however, has a liquid-like, transparent, and cracked texture. It sits on white background decorated with a swirling yellow line. Blue text that reads, "NEWYORKCITY" emerges from the image's bottom edge and is arranged such that the text reads vertically. Lines composed of small blue dots radiate out from the text's right side, running over the golden form. Small black text at the image's lower left corner reads, "2020Solidarity - Seth Price."] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, el flow oculto de agua / the hidden flow of water, 2022, cards, QR codes, desk, chair, notebook, pencils, colored markers, quote by Audre Lorde; Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [A chair and desk face a white wall which has a grid of cards in varying colors on it. A notebook, stacks of cards, and pens are on the desk.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A row of small folded blue books are displayed on a black table. A piece of white coral is also placed in the middle of the table.] -
Renee Gladman, Grasses 2, 2022, graphite and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A close-up color image of a framed work displayed against a white wall. The drawing depicts a colorful abstract composition with a brown circle being the main figure from where trianagles and lines emerge. Soft pencil strokes complement the composition.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a blue shirt kneels down on stage, they look down and hold a microphone to their face. Red light is cast onto the stage.] -
It's Get Better IV, 2016. [A flyer for the event, depicting a Manhattan city block with neon-hued clouds in the background.] -
Friends of Artists Space Annual Dinner, 2017. [A photo of a room full of people seated at three long, rectangular tables. Each table has numerous glasses of wine, sparkling water, candles, and empty plates of food. In the foreground, people are talking to each other and smiling.] -
Artists Space Curator Jamie Stevens speaking with P.S. 140 Portfolio Students [Two people stand in the foreground: one person holds a notebook and points to a page while the other looks on.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a suit stands on stage, behind a music stand and two microphones.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of a black display case depicting an image of woman printed on a white cloth, with the title *2000 WASTED YEARS*. She is sitting down in an antique chair, one foot up, wearing a full-body black-and-white suit adorned with black English and Japanese lettering.] -
Ian Bader. Spalation Clock, 1977. Axonometric. [Drawing of large square architectural development with half circle surrouding it and a small development above it to the right.] -
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Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A partial view of a large, orange circular slug sculpture is in front of a painting hanging in a white-walled gallery space.] -