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| Introduction In December, 2004 Yale University purchased my archive. This includes many hundreds of items: all the fine art editions I have published, maquettes, working drawings, audio tapes, videos and papers. I am the Founder (and former Chairman) of the Center for Book Arts, an independent not-for-profit organization in New York City that has become a model for similar facilities nationwide. We have presented over 150 exhibitions that defined the book art movement. A strong publishing program has produced outstanding catalogs, chapbooks, and limited edition artists’ books. Since 1974 our courses have trained thousands of artists. The Center now offers over 100 classes and workshops. Through a successful fund raising campaign the Center owns its Manhattan facility mortgage-free. At various times I was President, Executive Director, Development Director, and Curator of Exhibitions, in addition to teaching classes and training apprentices. These roles involved every aspect of management, supervision, planning, fund raising, and institutional affiliation (BFA and MFA programs). The organization has a distinguished Board of Directors and is staged to develop successfully into the unforeseeable future. Art theory and the philosophy of art are important to me, and I recommend the international interdisciplinary symposia on art and cognition, where you can read my interventions as a member of the Guest Panel. Lecturing, critiquing, and conducting workshops have provided me with the opportunity to teach and mentor undergraduates, graduate students, and independent artists throughout the USA and abroad. You can see many examples of my work on the 350+ pages of minsky.com. |
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| Public Collections & Commissions |
| Yale
University, New Haven, CT: The Richard Minsky Archive Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL Allan Stone Gallery, New York The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, New York The Morgan Library, New York The New York Public Library Rare Book Room Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC The Getty Center, Santa Monica, CA McMillan Library, Nairobi, Kenya. The White House Gracie Mansion, New York Center for Book Arts, New York Los Angeles Museum Of Craft and Folk Art Donglomur Foundation, Villanova, PA + many other museum and university library collections |
| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2005 | Syracuse University Library. Syracuse, NY | |
| 2003 | Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 2002 | Oberlin College Library, Ohio Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York |
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| 1992 | HarperCollins Gallery, New York (25 year retrospective) | |
| 1990 | Twining Gallery, New York | |
| 1988 | Zabriskie Gallery, New York | |
| 1981 | Allan Stone Gallery, New York | |
| 1978 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| 1976 | 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York | |
| 1974 | Zabriskie Gallery, New York | |
| 1972 | AIGA Gallery, New York | |
| Group Shows | ||
| 2004 | What's in a Book?
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. The Book at the Back of the Mind Rutgers University, Newark, NJ |
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| 2003 | Beyond
Reading: Contemporary Book Art The Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA Love and/or Terror University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson Visual Poetics: Art and the Word Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| 2001 | Not for Publication: In the Spirit of the Book Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, NY | |
| 1999 | Legible Forms Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach | |
| 1998 | Legible
Forms Chicago Public
Library, Chicago, IL and Sheldon Memorial Art Galllery, Lincoln, NE |
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| 1997 | Inside Editions: A Literature of Punishment The Grolier Club, NYC | |
| Legible Forms Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA | ||
| 1996 | Love Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY | |
| The Alternative Page The Gallery at Hastings on Hudson, NY | ||
| 1995 | Redefining The Book Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| This Day in History Center for Book Arts, New York | ||
| 1994 | Waking The Book Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ | |
| 1993 | Not By The Book Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY | |
| Artists' Books & Art About Books Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY | ||
| Paper-The Essential Material HarperCollins Gallery,NY | ||
| 1992 | Completing the Circle: Artists' Books On the Environment Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN and four other venues | |
| 1991 | Books as Art Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL | |
| Objects of My Affection Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY | ||
| The Regilded Age The Newark Museum, NJ | ||
| Creatures Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY | ||
| Dieu Donne Papermill: 15 Years Center for Book Arts, NY | ||
| New Surrealism New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | ||
| 1990 | Prints of the Eighties Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC and Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY | |
| 1989 | 2e Forum International. de la Reliure d'Art Basel CH | |
| In the Craft Tradition Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY | ||
| Handmade Paparworks Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC | ||
| The Eloquent Object Virginia Museum of Fine Arts " | ||
| The Eloquent Object The Orlando Museum of Art, FL | ||
| Obsessions Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY | ||
| 1988 | The Arts of the Book Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA " | |
| The
Eloquent Object The
Oakland Museum, CA, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and Chicago Public Library Cultural Center |
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| Book Making: Practical and Provocative Painted Bride, Phila. PA | ||
| Invitational Exhibition Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY " | ||
| Contemporary Book Arts U. North Dakota, Grand Forks | ||
| Off the Shelf: A New Look at Book Art Fort Wayne Museum of Art | ||
| 1987 | Off the Shelf ... Sweet Briar College, VA | |
| The Eloquent Object Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK | ||
| The Masters II Long Island University, Southampton, NY | ||
| A Survey of Book Arts The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY | ||
| 1986 | Bookworks by Photographers Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY | |
| 1985 | Books as Sculpture Rutgers University, Newark, NJ | |
| 1984 | The First Decade: Center for Book Arts New York Public Library | |
| Ordinary And Extraordinary Uses: Objects By Artists Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY | ||
| 1981 | The Birthday Party Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland | |
| 1980 | The Naked Book BACA Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn | |
| 1979 | The Open and Closed Book Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
| 1978 | The Book as Art Dayton Arts Institute, Dayton, Ohio | |
| 1977 | Crafts in The White House Los Angeles Museum of Craft and Folk Art | |
| The Object as Poet Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC and Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY | ||
| 1976 | The Center for Book Arts New City Free Library, New City, NY and Larchmont Public Library, Larchmont, NY | |
| 1975 | The Book as Art Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| The Center for Book Arts Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT | ||
| Guild of Bookworkers New York Botanical Gardens Museum and Yale University, New Haven, CT | ||
| 1968 | Students of Daniel Gibson Knowlton Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI | |
| Exhibitions Curated | ||
| 2003 | Open for Action: Political Book Art Center for Book Arts, NYC | |
| 1996 | Illustrated Books: A Survey of Genres Colophon Page Gallery | |
| 1994 | Out of Bounds Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT | |
| 1990 | Book Arts in the USA Center for Book Arts, NYC, five venues in Africa, four in South America | |
| 1987 | The Effects of Time Center for Book Arts, NYC | |
| Bookworks, London Center for Book Arts, NYC | ||
| Jean de Gonet Center for Book Arts, NYC | ||
| The Bookworks of Tom Phillips Center for Book Arts, NYC | ||
| 1985 | Book Artchitecture T J Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Bibliography
[not including Minsky as Founder of The Center for Book Arts or SLARTTM] |
| "It's
About Art" by Scott Brown, Fine Books & Collections
March/April 2007 “Making Books Speak: Book Art and Politics” by Richard Minsky, International Gallerie, Issue 18, 2006. "Richard Minsky" by Scott Brown, Fine Books & Collections March/April 2005 "Profile: Richard Minsky" Bound and Lettered vol 4,#2,April 2005 "Bookbinding as Art" Stars Magazine [The Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY] Sunday Feb. 20, 2005 "'The Bill of Rights' Exhibition Comes to Bird Library" Syracuse Record, Feb. 14, 2005 "Arts Library acquires the archive of pioneering book artist Richard Minsky" Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Dec. 17, 2004 "'Bill of Rights' bookworks bound to be provocative" by Thomas O'Sullivan. St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 5, 2003 "Artist Depicts the Bill of Rights in a World Out of Joint" by Ralph Blumenthal. The New York Times, May 20, 2002 "An Interview With Mr. RIchard Minsky: Professional and Academic Perspectives of Book Art" ArtSchools.com, August 6, 2001. "Nouvelles du front: les derniers travaux de Richard Minsky" par Joëlle Naîm, Art & Métiers du Livre, Jan-Feb 1998 "Richard Minsky" by Caroline Seebohm. At Home With Books, Clarkson Potter, 1995. "A Time for Judging a Book by Its Cover" by Betty Freudenheim. The New York Times, July 3, 1994 "What Is a Book? Perusing Some Unusual Ideas" by Bess Liebenson, The New York Times, June 5,1994 "Don't write off fascinating show at Arts Workshop" by Judy Birke. New Haven Register, June 5, 1994 "Finishing Books" by Janice Friedman. Bostonia, Winter 1992-93 "Madonna's 'Sex' Binding" A Current Affair, FOX-TV, Oct. 21, 1992 "Naked Came the Bookbinder" by Lisa Interollo. Avenue Magazine, Summer 1992 "August Blues" by Ellen Keiser. Dan's Papers, August 21, 1992 "Richard Minsky/HarperCollins Publishers Gallery" photo in American Craft, June/July 1992 "Richard Minsky" by Jeanne Moos. CNN-TV, May 8, 1992 "Art Pick: Judging by Their Covers" by Catherine Drillis. Manhattan Spirit, April 21, 1992 "Traditions in a Bind"by Jerry Tallmer. New York Post, April 24, 1992 "From the Studio" by Rose C.S. Slivka. The East Hampton Star, April 9, 1992 "New Medium for an Urgent Message" by Mary Ann Grossman. Saint Paul Pioneer Press, March 1, 1992 "Books Cast as Artworks in Exhibit" by Gary Schwan. The Palm Beach Post, August 25, 1991 "Minsky in Bed" East Hampton Star, August 2, 1990 "Wordless Art of Bookmaking" by Jerry Tallmer. New York Post, April 27, 1990 "Bookbinder on a Cabin Cruiser" by Eric Wald. Dan's Papers, Aug. 18, 1989 "Richard Minsky" Art & Metiers du Livre, Oct/Nov, 1988 "Richard Minsky" Arts Magazine, May, 1988 "Books as Art" by Darrel Koehler. Grand Forks Herald. March 25, 1988 "Faculty Show: Ranqe of Ideas" by Fhyllis Braff. NY Times, Sept. 6, 1987 "On Art" by Amei Wallach. Newsday, August 21, 1987 "Alternate Autos" Craft International, April-June 1987 "Bound to Please" Smart Living, Feb 1985 "The Book Transformed" ID Magazine/International Design, Jan/Feb l985 "Reading Matter With a Difference" New York Times, Sept. 7, 1984 "Art in Bondage" Art & Antiques, June 1984 "Ars Gratia Artist" Money, June, 1984 "Art for Debt's Sake" Newsday, March 29, 1984 "New Company Issues a Debenture That's Secured by a Picture Frame" The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 1984 "Richard Minsky" photo in The Athens Observer (GA), Feb 11, 1982 "Richard Minsky" Review in Craft International, Summer 1981 "From Neo-Conceptual to Bodies" Review in Artspeak III,19, May 21, 1981 "Minsky in London" Review in Artforum, January, 1981 "American Book Artist at Large" Crafts (London) Feb. 1979 "Book of the Century" Craft Horizons, Ocotober 1977 "The Decade: Change and Continuity" Craft Horizons, June, 1976 "Richard Minsky" Review in Arts magazine, October, 1974 "Richard Minsky" People Who Make Things by Carolyn Meyer. Athenaeum, 1975 "You Can Always Tell a Bookbinder by His Cover" Acquire, December, 1973 "Vanishing Breed" by Rita A. Black. Book Production Industry, April, 1973 "Richard Minsky" by Rolland Smith. WCBS-TV 6 O'clock News, May 17, 1972 "Another Chapter In Ancient Art of Binding" by Philip H. Dougherty. The New York Times, May 28, 1972 "Art Scene Comes to Queens" by Milton Adams. New York Post, May 16, 1972 |
| Minsky and SLARTTM Richard Minsky resides in Second Life® as avatar ArtWorld Market. He is considered a leading expert on Second Life Art, and has been written up in artnet, Financial Times Deutschland, Die Zeit, and Artnet, among many others, was interviewed by Kurt Andersen on Public Radio International's Studio 360, and performed a 1½ hour tour of Second Life Art at Location One in New York City that was simulcast in Second Life. In August, 2007 he presented a paper in the Business Track of the Second Life Community Conference in Chicago on "The Art World Market of Second Life." This is the first study of its kind, examining the differences and similarities between real life and Second Life art, including aesthetic, technical, legal and economic factors. |
| Publications
Artist
Books and Editions by Richard Minsky (click link to view images
and descriptions) |
| Art
and Cognition: Guest panelist for international online
symposium, published on the web Nov. 2002—current by Département d'études cognitives
de l’École normale supérieure,
Fondation
Fyssen, and Institut
d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques. Below
are links to several texts by Richard Minsky:
"Abstract or figurative, it can be a fake original" |
“Les aspects économique de l’architecture du web” and “ …ou des regrets à l’infinie ?” by Richard Minsky, in text-e: Le texte à L’heure de l’Internet, Bibliothèque Centre Pompidou, 2003 text-e: participant in virtual symposium, published on the web October 2001-March 2002 by Euro-Edu, UNESCO, Institut Nicod and Bibliothèque Centre Pompidou. Below are links to several texts by Richard Minsky:
"Economics, Technology, and the Time Line" |
| "Fear and Greed in the 24-hour Economy" by Richard Minsky. Brown Economic Review, 1999 |
| "Innovation from Tradition in the Book Arts" by Richard Minsky. American Craft, October/November, 1993 |
| Lectures/Seminars | ||
| 2007 | The University of Iowa, Iowa City. The Mitchell Lecture on the Art of the Book. | |
| 2006 | The
Wizard Academy, Austin Texas. Advanced Thought Particles. The Guild of BookWorkers Centenary Symposium, NY. The Book Art Movement from the 1970’s Forward. |
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| 2005 |
Brown
University, Providence, RI. Visiting Artist Palmer School of Library and Information Science, New York, NY. Book Art. Brown University, Providence, RI. List Art Center. Material as Metaphor. The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI. Sonia Galletti Lecture: The Book Art Movement. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Material as Metaphor. |
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| 2004 | Washington
University, St. Louis, MO. Material as Metaphor. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Keynote Speech at the annual Book Arts Symposium. |
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| 2003 | Minnesota
Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Material as Metaphor. Joint conference session of the CAA and AIC, New York City:The Conservator as Artist: Innovation from Tradition |
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| 2001 | SHARP
Conference, College of William
& Mary. 25
Years: The Book Art Movement 1974-1999 Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY. "Art Criticism: Whose Truth?" Roundtable panel with B.H. Friedman and Michael Kimmelman, moderated by Rose Slivka The Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, NY San Diego Book Arts, Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA |
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| 1997 | Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts | |
| 1996 | The Book Arts Club, University of Iowa Center for the Book | |
| 1993 | American Society of Journalists and Authors, Washington, DC | |
| 1990 | Bibliotheque
Nationale, Antananarivo, Madagascar Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY |
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| 1989 | Pyramid Atlantic, Washington, DC | |
| 1988 | Galerie
Zabriskie, Paris, France Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis Artists' Bookworks, Chicago U. of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City Parsons School of Design, New York City New York University, New York City American Institute of Graphic Arts, Philadelphia |
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| 1987 | Master Workshop, Southampton Campus, Long Island University | |
| 1985 | Ox-Bow Paper & Book Intensive, Saugatuck, MI | |
| 1984 | University of Hawaii, Honolulu Organization of International Artists, Hanalei, Kauai |
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| 1982 | University of
Georgia, Athens Georgia State University, Atlanta |
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| 1981 | University of Washington,
Seattle Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland |
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| 1980 | Rhode Island School of Design Club, New York | |
| 1979 | Visual
Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY London College of Printing, England Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, England Byam Shaw School of Art, London, England The British Crafts Centre, London, England |
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| 1978 | Camberwell School of Art And Crafts, England | |
| 1976 | School of Visual Arts, New York | |
| 1973 | Graduate School of Library Science, St. John's University, NY | |
| Current | ||
| Studio Artist: Creating sculptural bookworks, playing the violin, binding copies of the first edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Recently completed publication: American Decorated Publishers' Bindings 1972–1929. | ||
| History | ||
| 2002- | Chairman, The Center for Book Arts, New York City | |
| 1974- | Faculty, Center for Book Arts | |
| 1990-98 | President, Center for Book Arts | |
| 1990 | Director, First National Conference on "Book Arts in the USA" | |
| 1986-87 | Director of Exhibitions, Center for for Book Arts | |
| 1978-79 | US/UK Bicentennial Fellow | |
| 1977-78 | Instructor, School of Visual Arts | |
| 1974-78 | Founder and President, Center for Book Arts, Inc. | |
| 1972-74 | Owned and operated hand bookbindery, printshop and art gallery | |
| 1970-71 | Photographer, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum | |
| 1960-70 | Owned and operated letterprpress printshop | |
| Education | ||
| 1969-71 | Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research | |
| 1968-69 | Brown University, MA Economics | |
| 1964-68 | Brooklyn College, BA cum laude | |
| Fellowshps/Grants | ||
| 1996-97 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant | |
| 1980-81 | National Endowment for the Arts. Crafts Projects. | |
| 1978-79 | NEA/ICA. US/UK Bicentennial Fellowship. | |
| 1977-78 | NEA. Craftsman's Fellowship. | |
| 1976-77 | NEA. Master Craftsmen's Apprenticeship. | |
| 1975-76 | NEA. Ditto (these two grants paid for Richard's apprentice). | |
| Performances | ||
| 1990-92 | Readings from Minsky in Bed at Canio's Bookstore, Sag Harbor, NY | |
| 1985-87 | Violinist in Tango quintet. Monthly performances at Agrupacion des Amigos del Tango en Nueva York | |
| 1981 | Performance of “I Wanna be Riveted” as Old Man Rivet and the Rivetheads, Allan Stone Gallery, NY | |
| 1980 | Violin/Language collaboration with Min Tanaka, NYC Public Demonstration Book Burning, NYC Fiddle Solo, Mass. State Agricultural Fair, Martha's Vineyard Video Performance, University of Washington, Seattle |
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| 1978-79 | Conducted series of nine Seminars Dansants, London, England | |
| 1974-75 | Three live
performances of Gerald Jackson's Adventures in Ku-ta-ba Wa-do NYC. Composed music for recording (39 minute LP) played on radio stations WKCR, WNYU and WBAI |
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| 1973-74 | Composer and Musical Director, Direct Theater, NYC Wrote and produced music for Anele by Peter Gorman |
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| 1971 | Violinist in Paris at Festival de Montparnasse with two groups: Come With Us (Folk Rock) and Ray Stevens' Orchestra (Big Band Jazz), and on French Television (ORTF), Concerts at Facult‚ de Droit and many small clubs |
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| Residencies | ||
| 1990 | Ox-Bow (Art Inst. of Chicago), Saugatuck, MI | |
| 1988 | Blue
Mountain Center, Blue Mountain
Lake, NY |
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| 1987 | Blue
Mountain Center, Blue Mountain
Lake, NY |
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| 1985 | Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY | |
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