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Artists Talk on Art records

Archives of American Art

Object Details

Creator
Artists Talk on Art
Names
Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
Christo, 1935-
De Niro, Robert, Sr., 1922-1993
Denes, Agnes
Goldberg, Michael, 1924-2007
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009
Longo, Robert
Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985
Morris, Robert, 1931-2018
Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-
Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
Pavia, Philip, 1915-2005
Sleigh, Sylvia
Wilke, Hannah
Wojnarowicz, David
Occupation
Art critics
Art dealers
Art historians
Artists
Topic
Art, American
Historians
Provenance
The Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) records, including digital files of the video and sound recordings, were donated to the Archives in 2016 by Douglas Sheer, Chairman of ATOA.
Creator
Artists Talk on Art
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Artists Talk on Art records
Summary
The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 65.2 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2023. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants. There is a 0.8 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2023 that includes flyers, board meeting minutes, correspondence, program schedules, panel release forms, financial records 1982-2023; slides, 1980s-1990s; a notebook about the history of ATOA; and one hard drive containing 175 panel discussions and program series, 2016-2023.
Biographical / Historical
Established in 1974 and still active in New York, Artists Talk on Art is the art world's longest running and most prolific aesthetic panel discussion series organized by artists for artists. Founded by Lori Antonacci, Douglas I. Sheer, and Robert Wiegand, the forum has presented 6,000 artists in nearly 1,000 documented panels or dialogues. ATOA held its first panel, "Whatever Happened to Public Art," on January 10, 1975 and it drew a "crowd" of 77 people. In the decades that followed, ATOA presented dozens of panels or dialogues a year, tackling such diverse topics as "What is Happening with Conceptual Art," with Louise Lawler and Lawrence Weiner; "Painting and Photography: Defining the Difference," with Sarah Charlesworth, Jack Goldstein, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, and Robert Mapplethorpe; "Organizing Arts Activism," with Lucy Lippard; "The Artist and the Epidemic—an information panel about AIDS"; "Cross-generational Views of Feminism"; and hundreds more.
Extent
64.4 Linear feet
317.43 Gigabytes
Date
circa 1974-2018
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.artitalk
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Gigabytes
Photographs
Sound recordings
Scrapbooks
Transcripts
Video recordings
Citation
Artists Talk on Art records, circa 1974-2023. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
The records are arranged into ten series. Series 1: Adminstrative Files, 1974-2013 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1) Series 2: Director's and Chairman's Correspondence, 1977-2006 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1) Series 3: Grant Files, 1977-2009 (1 linear foot, Boxes 1-2) Series 4: Panel Release Forms, 1978-2012 (1 linear foot, Boxes 2-3) Series 5: Panel Transcripts, 1981, 1986, 1988, 2017-2018 (1 folder, Box 3; 0.002 GB, ER01) Series 6: Printed Materials, 1975-2015 (0.8 linear feet, Boxes 3-4; 0.434 GB, ER02) Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1975-1989 (0.2 linear feet, Box 4) Series 8: Photographic Materials, circa 1975-circa 2000 (1 linear foot, Boxes 4-5) Series 9: Video and Sound Recordings of Events, 1977-2016 (59 linear feet, Boxes 6-65; 317.43 GB, ER03-ER04) Series 10: Unprocessed Addition, 1982-2023 (0.8 linear feet, 1 hard drive; Boxes 66-67)
Processing Information
Most of the video and sound recordings and panel flyers were digitized by the Artists Talk on Art organization prior to donation. Electronic copies of transcripts for twelve panels were donated in 2017-2018. Video and sound recordings, and their digital surrogates, and electronic records were processed to a preliminary level and an inventory for the finding aid was prepared by Megan McShea in 2017-2018. Individual event recordings were processed and described at the item level in this finding aid in 2019. The paper portion of the collection was processed and described by Barbara Aikens in 2017.
Rights
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Existence and Location of Copies
Most of the video and sound recordings in this collection have been digitized for research access and the digital copies are available in the Archives of American Art research offices. Digital copies of the panel flyers and transcripts are also available in Archives of American Art offices.
Genre/Form
Photographs
Sound recordings
Scrapbooks
Transcripts
Video recordings
Scope and Contents
The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 65.2 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2023. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants. ATOA's recordings chronicle the American art world, covering critical discussions and significant art world issues over five decades. Thousands of artists such as Will Barnet, Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Robert De Niro, Agnes Denes, Michael Goldberg, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Robert Morris, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Philip Pavia, Howardena Pindell, Larry Rivers, Sylvia Sleigh, Kahinde Wiley, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz, and others speak about their work. The original recordings exist in a variety of formats, including U-Matic and VHS videotape, MiniDVs, sound cassettes and sound tape reels. ATOA digitized most of the video and sound recordings prior to donating the collection. The collection also includes printed histories, board and program committee meeting minutes, financial statements, general correspondence files of the president and chair, attendance statistics, grant files, panel participant release forms, sixteen panel transcripts, a complete set of panel flyers (many are annotated) and other printed materials, three dismantled scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panels and panel participants. There is a 0.8 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2023 that includes flyers, board meeting minutes, correspondence, program schedules, panel release forms, financial records 1982-2023; slides, 1980s-1990s; a notebook about the history of ATOA; and one hard drive containing 175 panel discussions and program series, 2016-2023.
Restrictions
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1521547822997-1521547823026-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c4de66ef-397b-4e6e-9fde-d6deca12fa3a

In the Collection

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  • Electronic resourceThree dimensions: Hand or digital

  • Electronic resourceThe figure: Another side of modernism

  • Electronic resourceATOA's 3rd annual Portrait-thon

  • Electronic resourceThe sculpture center: A view to the past and an eye to the future 

  • Electronic resourceComputer invasion of the art world

  • Electronic resourceNew wave artist-run galleries in Brooklyn

  • Electronic resourcePolyartistry: artists at work in more than one discipline

  • Electronic resourceExpressions of loss: The World Trade Center memorial project

  • Electronic resourceRe-forming painting: Four visions

  • Electronic resourceCollecting today's art in today's world

  • Electronic resourceNancy Spero and Vernita N'Cognita

  • Electronic resourceJane Wilson and Michael Walls

  • Electronic resourceWhat makes a co-op gallery successful?

  • Electronic resourceArt after Helms: Win, lose, or draw?

  • Electronic resourceAbout painting (in a pro & anti modernist world)

  • Electronic resourceAmericans in Paris

  • Electronic resourceThe world of artists' books, an art form blossoms at "The End of a Dream"

  • Electronic resourceQuestions on art myth and mind

  • Electronic resourceArt and technology: The soul of the machine

  • Electronic resourceCreative couples

  • Electronic resourceFilms on artists

  • Electronic resourceHow the marketplace gives form to art

  • Electronic resourceOrganization of Independent Artists (OIA): Art or politics

  • Electronic resourceThe Hudson Valley art scene

  • Electronic resourceIs it really art?

  • Electronic resourceIssues in contemporary sculpture

  • Electronic resourceBetween the social and the public: Dialogic action in third-space

  • Electronic resourceTheory and production: Art criticism today

  • Electronic resourceOpen poetry reading by artists (and other writings)

  • Electronic resourcePhong Bui interviews Irving Sandler

  • Electronic resourcePast dreams and future visions: The South Bronx art scene in the 21st century

  • Electronic resourceOpen screening: 5 slides, 5 minutes, 5 bucks

  • Electronic resourceATOA's 25th Anniversary

  • Electronic resourceReception and acceptance: Curator's choice

  • Electronic resourceShooting art: a special workshop on photographing your own art

  • Electronic resourceNobuho Nagasawa: Japanese American light artist in dialog

  • Electronic resourceThe clay artist as social critic

  • Electronic resourceViolence in art: Exploring the historical context and current impact of violent imagery

  • Electronic resourceArts on the air: Improving our coverage. How artists can use the media to reach their audience

  • Electronic resourceStructure as object: Recent abstract paintings

  • Electronic resourceA roof over our heads: The current crisis in artists' housing

  • Electronic resourceGrace Stanislauf in dialogue with Michael Brenson

  • Electronic resourceNADA: The New Art Dealers Alliance

  • Electronic resourceMTA Arts for Transit: Art along the way

  • Electronic resourceDrawing the cognitive connection: Can making art make people smart?

  • Electronic resourceWalter Robinson and Bill Rabinovitch

  • Electronic resource"Independence" and the artist: New meanings for old ideas

  • Electronic resourceA good laugh: Humor in art

  • Electronic resourceAnalog dreams, digital world

  • Electronic resourceArt and war open mic

  • Electronic resourceCurator's Choice: A panel of the winners of the Curator's Choice 2003 Competition

  • Electronic resourceRemembering Robert De Nero: an open forum for sharing memories

  • Electronic resourceInternational art residencies

  • Electronic resourceDouglas Davis and Connie Beckley in dialog, edited program

  • Electronic resourceTenth Street for '96?, edited version, part 2

  • Electronic resourceInsurance & investment: Issues and possibilities

  • Electronic resourceBestiality, fascism, & gratuitous gore… current trends in independent film & video

  • Electronic resourceNatvar Bhavsar in dialog: The language of color

  • Electronic resourceContemporary Native American art: Issues & ideas

  • Electronic resourceGlass art: Beyond the glory hole

  • Electronic resourceWhy make art in New York?

  • Electronic resourceThe source: artists writing about their own work

  • Electronic resourceThe Warhol Foundation

  • Electronic resourceArt and Wall Street: The Mei Moses art index

  • Electronic resourceGenetics and art in a digital age

  • Electronic resourceCurator's Choice

  • Electronic resourceFantastic, eccentric, & unexpected art

  • Electronic resourceSculpture: The environment in nature

  • Electronic resourcePainted sculpture

  • Electronic resourceBlack Mountain College revisited

  • Photographic Materials

  • Electronic resourceKeren Cytter videos

  • Electronic resourceDennis Oppenheim and Max Hutchinson

  • Electronic resourceFigurative expressionism, then and now: Rhino Horn

  • Electronic resourceAfter they're gone: Maintaining and promoting an artist's estate

  • Electronic resourceArt collectors talk straight (to artists)

  • Electronic resourceATOA Gala Auction at the Chelsea Arts Museum: Objects of desire

  • Electronic resourceNative American artists: Is there a separate aesthetic?

  • Electronic resourceNew wine in old bottles: Resurgent media

  • Electronic resourceWorking conditions: Some thoughts on how to keep making art in a city that no longer gives a damn

  • Electronic resourceArtists who use architecture: Theory, form, and influence on art

  • Electronic resourceMulti-media vs. the traditional arts

  • Electronic resourcePost-Modernism

  • Electronic resourceThe cutting edge: the Biennial & Counterweight

  • Electronic resourceWill printmaking and photography survive as distinct art media?

  • Electronic resourceWomen artists of the 1950's

  • Electronic resourceArt of the literal Image, changed to Technological instruments of transportation

  • Electronic resourceWomen painters: Support systems revisited

  • Electronic resourceThe museum seen: Uptown and downtown

  • Electronic resourceWhere artists hide out

  • Electronic resourceAbstract painting: Endangered species

  • Electronic resourceEco-conscious artists: Creating art with recycled materials

  • Electronic resourceThe power of paper

  • Video and Sound Recordings of Events

  • Electronic resourceNancy Spero and Vernita N'Cognita, edited version

  • Electronic resourceJean-Michel Basquiat and the third eye

  • Electronic resourceArtadia: The fund for art and dialogue, encouraging great art in American cities

  • Electronic resourceArtists' visions of imaginary civilizations

  • Electronic resourceArtists and computers: Exploring the media, showing the work, explaining the techniques

  • Electronic resourceConstructed paintings

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