POLIS

A Newsletter of Art Museums & Politics

 

1 PARIS: MAY 1968:
Posters of the Student Revolt, at MoMA
Curator: Emilio Ambasz, Spring 1969
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2 U.S. REVOLUTIONARY POSTERS, at MoMA (Project)
Proposer: FLG, Summer 1969
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3 REVOLUTIONARY PROTESTERS IN THE GARDEN of MoMA
Notes from the War Zone by FLG, Fall 1969
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4 THE “VIETNAM BABIES” AFFAIR, at MoMA
Proposer: Art Workers Coalition & MoMA Senior Staff, Winter 1969
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5 REFLECTION ON WAR & PEACE, at the de Young Museum
[Vietnam War & Kent State]. Curator: FLG, 1970
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6 CARL ANDRE & THE SFAI CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
Curator of the de Young Museum Sculpture Section: FLG, 1971
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7 THE RAINBOW SHOW, at the de Young Museum & other Bay Area Museums of Art & Science. Curator: FLG, 1975
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8 ANDY WARHOL & SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
Another Side of Pop Art, at CSUEB
Curator: FLG, 2000
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9 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: ARTIST-CITIZEN:
Posters for a Better World, at CSUEB & many other U.S. Venues
in association with the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES). Curator: FLG, 2004 – 2008
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10 THE COST OF WAR: From the World Wars to Iraq
at CSUEB, Curator: FLG, 2008 – 2009
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11 REVOLUTIONARY POSTERS: Russia, China, Cuba, & USA (Project)
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12 BLACK BEAUTY: How African American Art entered the Mainstream during the 1960s & ‘70s (Project)
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Supplement

 

THE ART MUSEUM REVOLUTION IN AMERICA
A Study Guide by FLG, 1976
Revised for Museum Studies Students 1998 & 2012