Curated by Karen Shaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The loose sheet is from one of a series of works of an unlimited edition that are given away free (entitled, Helms Amendment 1987...) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The license plate that reads "vers ions and Richard Tipping 99" was designed by Eileen Boxer. The gallery also sent 12 installation, colored photographs of the exhibition along with the check list that is stored in the box with this item. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The initial part of this book consists of the printed reproduction of the handwritten manuscript. Mounted photographs follow, two to a page, of a man walking on train tracks through a tunnel and into a park near these tracks. The photographs apppear to have been reproduced from video images. An original page from the manuscript is enclosed within a sleeve page near the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reproduces images of restored films from the Hungarian writer, Oskar Serti, who developed color blindness in adulthood and was treated with a special shoe with spikes on the inner sole that could produce severe pain associated flashes of different colors. The metal case is for reels of film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book object are blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a white pages telephone book of Brussels. The artististic contribution was the writing of her name, address, and telephone number on the side margin of the alphabetical page for Janssens. Born in 1956 in the United Kingdom, Ann Veronica Janssens lives in Bruxelles. She now has an international reputation, in particular for installations that plunge visitors into coloured artificial fogs that challenge our habits regarding perception and sense of direction (MUKHA 1997, Venice Biennale 1999, Kunsthalle Berne 2003, MAC Marseille 2003, Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, 1301PE gallery LA 2003.), her bicycles with reflective wheels (Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, Middleheim Museum Antwerp 2002, MUKHA Antwerp 2003) and other works making play with the parameters of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "ego." is spelled out one letter by one letter on each of three corners and a period punctuation mark on the fourth corner of a small square which is scored and stained. The reverse side carries the two phrases, "One word. Two words." This work is designated No.491 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonee Volume III. Note that ego is designated separately as No.500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lothar Baumgarten began in the 1960s to develop a critique of the system of naming. The works in this artists book are all wall drawings displayed on the walls of the interior or facade of the museum, the placement of which force the viewer to reflect critically on the historically constructed meanings of words. This copy is one of 350 copies that were unnumbered and unsugned, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.