Comments on: Remembering ArtWeek

By: Joseph del Pesco

Joseph del Pesco — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:29:10 +0000

I’ve just updated the link, the old project site domain expired. You can also view all the first (SF) issues scanned as part of the project here: http://collectivefoundation.org/circulationdesk/

By: Ron Potter

Ron Potter — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:56:32 +0000

P.S. Sorry for the mangled HTML in my above comment.

The Post here has a link above that says “Go to Download Page for ArtWeek Vol. 1 No. 1″ which does not work. I’m just hoping the PDF exists somewhere else on this site or elsewhere. Anyone have an idea on this.

Ron

By: Ron Potter

Ron Potter — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:45:27 +0000

Hi Joseph,

We’ve been around the sun over 12 times since this blog post. The link does not work and The Big Google is not finding anything like that. The likelihood that you are still on the beat for this blog is low and the chance the estate of the owner of ARTWEEK may not have approved the scan and publish project is high. If anybody reading this knows where this project is going I would love to know.

Thanks
Ron

By: lowell darling

lowell darling — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:43:39 +0000

Cecile McCann, in the early years of ARTWEEK, would publish and promote what mainstream art mags (and local newspapers) wouldn’t touch or avoided. While typically advertising future shows and reviewing past shows, she was also part of the action in many ways, supportive of artist-driven events and new ideas in the early 70s when it was needed. For mail artists and conceptual/performance oriented artists, ARTWEEK was like a statewide town crier, getting word out about events and projects that might not have been noticed until well after the action. California artists of my era especially owe Cecile a periodic posthumous note of gratitude, even while knowing that she sometimes was supporting stuff about which few people outside the underground understood or even knew existed. ARTWEEK was, in fact, a very early art zine, a forerunner of artist-driven publications.

By: Ron Potter

Ron Potter — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:36:44 +0000

Hi Joseph,

So glad you’re doing this. I was closely associated with Uta Nietiet who I notice is tagged here, as well as a few others who may show up in your research. There has been so little on line for this subject and the artists. Your work will be greatly appreciated by me and many others.

I clicked the link above for the PDF for Art Week Vol. 1 No. 1 and it is apparently no longer available. Is there a chance it is now at another address?

Thanks,
Ron

By: Andrea Joki

Andrea Joki — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:43:32 +0000

I am doing research on Los Angeles artist, Robert Marks, and I am looking for critical reviews of his work in Artweek from May 1971. Have the May 1971 issues been scanned and available on-line?

By: Meredith Tromble

Meredith Tromble — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:18:09 +0000

Chris, I don’t think it was me! But I will join the search…

By: TZ

TZ — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:57:53 +0000

This book doesn’t fit your description but it’s a good resource on 1970s performance art in the Bay Area and is now Google Books searchable:

Performance Anthology: Source Book for a Decade of California Performance. Edited by Carl E. Loeffler and Darlene Tong. San Francisco, CA: Contemporary Arts Press, 1980.

By: Chris Cobb

Chris Cobb — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:15:40 +0000

Another obscure but amazing document of the times (late 1960′s up through 1979) is a book on performance art in the San Francisco bay area printed in 1980. I loaned it out to someone several years ago (Meredith Tromble maybe/maybe not???) and have never seen another copy. The cover was a photograph of Terry Fox doing his “Corner Piece.” As I recall. it was quite an interesting a bit of scholarship and art history. Wish I knew what it was called.

By: Christopher Howard

Christopher Howard — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:02:01 +0000

I’m doing research on Dennis Oppenheim, and I’m unable to locate copies of Artweek from the early 1970s anywhere in a New York library, where I live. By any chance, do you have these issues and pages scanned? If so, could you somehow post or send them?

“Body Works at MOCA,” Artweek 1, no. 34 (October 10, 1970): 2.
Cecile N. McCann, “Dennis Oppenheim: Conceptualist,” Artweek, November 21, 1970, 2.

Thanks!