Alvin Baltrop, Daniel Buren,
The Cockettes, Joseph Cornell,
Walker Evans, Jack Goldstein,
Guy Hocquenghem, Peter Hujar,
Charles James, Joan Jonas,
Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Lawler,
Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine,
Robert Longo, Antonio Lopez,
Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Craig Owens, Esther Phillips,
Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman,
Philip Smith, Lionel Soukaz,
Jack Tworkov, Massimo Vignelli,
Garry Winogrand
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
22 October 2016
opening reception on Thursday,
8 September, 6-8 pm
Douglas CrimpBefore Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
with works & contributions by
Alvin Baltrop, Daniel Buren, The Cockettes, Joseph Cornell, Walker Evans, Jack Goldstein, Guy Hocquenghem, Peter Hujar, Charles James, Joan Jonas, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Antonio Lopez, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Craig Owens, Esther Phillips, Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Philip Smith, Lionel Soukaz, Jack Tworkov, Massimo Vignelli, Garry Winogrand
8 September -
22 October 2016
opening reception on Thursday,8 September, 6-8 pm
Galerie Buchholz is pleased to announce a new exhibition with Douglas Crimp, coinciding with the release of his new book Before Pictures (by Dancing Foxes Press, co-published with The University of Chicago Press).
Douglas Crimp, who arrived in New York at the end of the 1960s and worked initially at the Guggenheim Museum and as an assistant to legendary fashion designer Charles James, is undoubtedly one of the most influential American intellectuals of our day. Alongside his occasional but significant curatorial projects and his work as critic (Art News, Artforum) and editor (October), Crimp has written some of the central texts on museological questions and theories of postmodernism (e.g. On the Museum’s Ruins, 1993). His was one of the most critical and persistent voices during the AIDS crisis and arguably the one whose theoretical insights most shaped the development of activist artistic practices, even beyond the confines of queer and AIDS politics (e.g. AIDS Demo Graphics, 1990; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2004). Moreover, Crimp’s writing on AIDS cultural practices directly influenced the development of the scholarly field of queer studies (AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, 1988; How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, 1991). His 2012 book, “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of And Warhol, continued his contributions to that field.
Throughout his career, Crimp corroborated his critical and theoretical insights with curatorial work. The 1977 exhibition Pictures (with, among others, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, and Philip Smith), which he curated for Artist’s Space in New York City, instituted a paradigm shift in artistic production and theorization. The historical overview that Crimp developed with curator Lynne Cooke in their co-curated exhibition Mixed Use Manhattan (Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010) was dedicated to New York City in the 1970s, the space of Lower Manhattan that was transformed by recession into a stage for the development of new artistic practices. And as a member of the curatorial team for the 2015 Greater New York Crimp helped to bring a historical dimension to the quinquennial survey of emerging artists.
Douglas Crimp’s new book Before Pictures tells the story of Crimp’s life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City from the late 1960s through the 1970s. The details of his professional and personal life are interwoven with a particularly rich history of New York City at that time, producing a vivid portrait of both the critic and his adopted city. The bookbegins with his escape from his hometown in Idaho to study art history at Tulane University, and Crimp soon found himself writing criticism for ArtNews while working at the Guggenheim Museum—where, as a young curatorial assistant, he was one of the few to see Daniel Buren’s Painting-Sculpture before it was removed amid cries of institutional censorship.
In the summer of 2014, on the occasion of Douglas Crimp’s 70th birthday, Galerie Buchholz presented an initial exhibition in Berlin highlighting his work as an art historian, critic and theorist, as well as his activist work during the AIDS crisis. A parallel symposium was organized together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel. For this new exhibition in our New York gallery, coinciding with the publication of the book Before Pictures, Galerie Buchholz collaborated with Crimp to expressly focus on the period that he describes in his memoir, beginning with his arrival in New York and ending with the seminal Pictures exhibition at Artist’s Space in 1977. This exhibition features key art works, documents and other materials that Crimp encountered and engaged with in his early life in New York, including Daniel Buren’s Painting-Sculpture, his infamous contribution to Guggenheim Museum’s 1971 International Exhibition, on view here for the first time since its initial installation. Zoe Leonard, a longtime friend of Crimp’s, produced a new series of photographs for the exhibition.
A program of special events will coincide with this exhibition:
Thursday, 8 September 2016, 6 -8 pm
Exhibition opening and book launch for Douglas Crimp’s “Before Pictures”
co-published by Dancing Foxes Press and the University of Chicago Press
Galerie Buchholz, 17 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028
post@galeriebuchholz.com www.galeriebuchholz.com
Saturday, 10 September 2016, 4 -5:30 pm
Juliane Rebentisch and Douglas Crimp on “Before Pictures”
Whitney Museum of American Art, Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater
99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014
www.whitney.org/Events/DouglasCrimpBeforePictures
Monday, 19 September 2016, 7:30 pm
A reading from “Before Pictures” and a screening of Joseph Cornell’s “Rose Hobart”
followed by a conversation with Thomas Beard and Douglas Crimp
Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
www.lightindustry.org
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 6:30 pm
A talk between Zoe Leonard and Douglas Crimp
Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021
leonard@hauserwirth.com www.hauserwirth.com
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Photograph of Helen Tworkov at her wedding reception taken by Walker Evans, drawing on photo by Helen Tworkov
12.5 x 8.8 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Massimiliano Vignelli
Subway Map of New York, 1972
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Zoe Leonard
“Downtown (for Douglas)”, 2016
17 gelatin silver prints
30.8 x 22.2 cm each
Zoe Leonard
“Downtown (for Douglas)”, 2016
17 gelatin silver prints
30.8 x 22.2 cm each
detail
Zoe Leonard
“Downtown (for Douglas)”, 2016
17 gelatin silver prints
30.8 x 22.2 cm each
detail
Zoe Leonard
“Downtown (for Douglas)”, 2016
17 gelatin silver prints
30.8 x 22.2 cm each
detail
Daniel Buren
“Peinture-Sculpture”, 1971
paint on white and blue striped cotton canvas
20 x 10 meters
installed, folded 15 x 130 x 89 cm
Daniel Buren
“Peinture-Sculpture”, 1971
paint on white and blue striped cotton canvas
20 x 10 meters
installed, folded 15 x 130 x 89 cm
Daniel Buren
“Peinture-Sculpture”, 1971
paint on white and blue striped cotton canvas
20 x 10 meters
installed, folded 15 x 130 x 89 cm
Daniel Buren
“Peinture-Sculpture”, 1971
paint on white and blue striped cotton canvas
20 x 10 meters
installed, folded 15 x 130 x 89 cm
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Garry Winogrand
“Tenth Anniversary Party, Guggenheim Museum, New York”, 1970
printed 1970s
gelatin-silver print
27 x 40.3 cm (image), 35.6 x 43.2 cm (sheet)
Garry Winogrand
“Tenth Anniversary Party, Guggenheim Museum, New York”, 1970
printed 1970s
gelatin-silver print
27 x 40.3 cm (image), 35.6 x 43.2 cm (sheet)
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Dominique de Menil wearing a 1949 Charles James evening gown, seated on the Butterfly Sofa James designed for her living room
photograph by F. Wilbur Seiders, ca. 1951
Photograph of the interior of the DeMenil House in Houston Texas interior design Charles James
architect Philip Johnson
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Bill Cunningham
detail photograph of the “flexible sculpture” in Charles James’ room at the Chelsea Hotel, c. 1965
vintage print
Collection Homer D. Layne
Bill Cunningham
photograph of the “flexible sculpture” in Charles James’ room at the Chelsea Hotel, c. 1965
vintage print
Collection Homer D. Layne
Bill Cunningham
photograph of Charles James in the Chelsea Hotel with the “stuffed cape-coat” dress form, c. 1965
vintage print
Collection Homer D. Layne
Dick Balerian
photograph taken in Carnegie Hall Studios including Antonio Lopez (center front), Juan Ramos (left back) and Charles James (right front), c. 1967 vintage print
Collection Homer D. Layne
Bill Cunningham
photograph of the padded dress form for Lee Krasner at The Art Student’s League of NY, c. 1961
vintage print
Collection Homer D. Layne
Bill Cunningham
photograph from the Chelsea Hotel studio of Charles James with Antonio Lopez and Jeanne Bultman
exhibition prints
Collection Homer D. Layne
Bill Cunningham
photograph from the Chelsea Hotel studio of Charles James with Antonio Lopez and Jeanne Bultman
exhibition prints
Collection Homer D. Layne
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Antonio Lopez
“Charles James Ribbon Cape Drawing 2”, 1974
oil pastel on paper
73 x 58 cm
Antonio Lopez
“Charles James Ribbon Cape Drawing 1”, 1974
oil pastel on paper
73 x 58 cm
Peter Hujar
“Charles James Chelsea Hotel (I)”, 1977
gelatin-silver print
37.5 x 37.2 cm (image), 50.8 x 40.6 cm (sheet)
Charles James
“Telephone Dress”, 1967
greased pencil on paper
31 x 21.5 cm
Collection R. Couri Hays
Charles James
“Owl Dress”, 1963
shoe polish on paper
43 x 32 cm
Collection R. Couri Hays
Charles James
“Owl Coat”, c. 1967
screenprint
74 x 58 cm
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Charles James
Untitled (inscribed “To Bill Cunningham”), 1971
ink on paper
46 x 20 cm
Subway poster for the Electric Circus Show, Art Student League Benefit including Charles James drawing “Indecision”, 1969
screenprint
65 x 89 cm
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Hans Namuth
Photograph of Coenties Slip artists on rooftop
(Agnes Martin, Delphine Seyrig, Jack Youngerman, Duncan Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana), New York, 1957
exhibition print
Poster for the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York, 1971
58 x 43.5 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Agnes Martin
Untitled, 1977
watercolor, graphite, and ink on paper
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Peter Hujar
“Stephen Varble, Soho, Franklin Street (I)”, 1976
gelatin-silver print
35.8 x 36.2 cm (image), 50.8 x 40.6 cm (sheet)
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Daniel Buren (middle) and Douglas Crimp (left) in front of Daniel Buren’s “Peinture-Sculpture”
at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1971
c-print, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Installation view of the Agnes Martin exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp Visual Arts Gallery, New York 1971
c-print, 25 x 20.3 cm
from the archive of Douglas Crimp
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Joseph Cornell
“Rose Hobart”, 1936
16mm film, 19 min., color, sound digital transfer
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
The Cockettes
“Tricia’s Wedding”, 1971
16 mm film, 33 min., color, sound digital transfer
Ellsworth Kelly
“Oak”, 1967
graphite on paper
56.5 x 75.6 cm
Ellsworth Kelly
“Ginkgo”, 1985
graphite on paper
38 x 28 cm
Estate of Ellsworth Kelly
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Peter Hujar
“Nassau Street”, 1975
gelatin silver print
38.7 x 38.7 cm (image), 50.8 x 40.6 cm (sheet)
Peter Hujar
“Loading Dock at Night”, 1976
gelatin-silver print
36.8 x 36.8 cm (image), 50.8 x 40.6 cm, (sheet)
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Louise Lawler
“Birdcalls”, 1972-81
audio recording with text, 7’01”
c-print, dimensions variable
from The Sol Lewitt Collection
Louise Lawler
“Birdcalls”, 1972-81
audio recording with text, 7’01”
c-print, dimensions variable
from The Sol Lewitt Collection
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Gordon Matta Clark
“Day’s End”, 1975
super 8 film, 23:10 min., color, silent digital transfer
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Joan Jonas
“Songdelay”, 1973
16mm film, 18:35 min., b&w, sound digital transfer
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Alvin Baltrop
“The Piers (men sunbathing on dock)”, 1975 - 1977
silver gelatin print (vintage print)
11.2 x 16.7 cm
Alvin Baltrop
“Pier 52 (with Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Day’s End’ building cut”, 1975 - 1986
silver gelatin print (vintage print)
11.2 x 16.7 cm
Alvin Baltrop
“The Piers (man wearing jockstrap)”, 1975 - 1986
silver gelatin print (vintage print)
16.9 x 11.1 cm
Alvin Baltrop
“The Piers (young man wearing Jockstrap)”, 1975 - 1986
silver gelatin print (vintage print)
16.5 x 11.3 cm
Yvonne Rainer
“Lives of Perfomers”, 1972
16mm film, 90 min., b/w, sound digital transfer
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Louise Lawler
“Swan Lake (Lincoln Center)”, 1982 b/w photograph
33 x 41 cm
George Balanchine
“Agon”, 1960
New York City Ballet in Montreal Telecast of March 10, 1960
16mm film, 23 min., b/w, sound digital transfer
Craig Owens
“An Interview”, 1984
directed by Lyn Blumenthal/Kate Horsfield digital transfer
Video Data Bank, Chicago
Louise Lawler
“Degas (Jeu de Paume)”, 1982
printed black and white photograph
44.5 x 32.4 cm (framed: 65.4 x 52.7 cm)
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Felia Doubrovska in the original Ballet Russes production of Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, 1929
photograph by Sasha/Getty Images
exhibition print
Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in the “swimming lesson” in the original Ballet Russes production of Balanchine’s Apollo, 1928 photograph by Sasha/Getty Images
exhibition print
Tanaquil Le Clercq and Francisco Moncion in George Balanchine’s La Valse, 1951
photograph by Walter E. Owens, 1951
exhibition print
Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell in George Balanchine’s Agon, 1957
photograph by Martha Swope, 1957
exhibition print
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Philip Smith
Untitled, 1976/1977
oil pastel, oil paint and pencil on paper
257 x 157 cm
Jack Goldstein
“A Set of Ten Films”, 1974-1978
1. The Portrait of Pere Tanguy 1974, 16mm, color, 4’ / 2. White Dove 1975, 16mm, color, 20’’ / 3. The Knife 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 4’ / 4. Shane 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 3’ / 5. A Ballet Shoe 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 19’’ / 6. The Chair 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 5’ / 7. Some Butterflies 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 30’’ / 8. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 2’ / 9. Bone China 1976, 16mm, color, sound, 2’ 30’’ / 10. The Jump 1978, 16mm, color, silent, 26’’
digital transfer
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Cindy Sherman
“Untitled (Film Still #60)”, 1980 gelatin silver print
25,5 x 20,5 cm
exhibition print
Cindy Sherman
“Untitled (Film Still #21)”, 1978 gelatin silver print
20,5 x 25,5 cm
exhibition print
Sherrie Levine
“President Profile”, 1978
slide, slide projector
Louise Lawler
Poster for ________ , Louise Lawler, Adrien Piper and Cindy Sherman are participating in an exhibition organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 to October 28, 1978, Artists Space, New York City, September 23, 1978
printed matter, poster
28 x 43,5 cm
Collection Louise Lawler
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Poster for Articulate Muscle: The Body As Art, a live exhibition by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Zane and Ed Corney, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Wednesday, February 25th, 1976, 8pm”, 1976
Collection Tom Yust
Eliott Erwitt
Arnold Schwarzenegger during the performance series Articulate Muscle: The Male Body in Art at the Whitney Museum, New York City, 25 February 1976
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures
New York City 1967-1977
installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2016
Lionel Soukaz and Guy Hocquenghem
“Race d’Ep”, 1979
Film, color, sound
digital transfer
Lionel Soukaz and Artists Space, New York