Collection
In the summer of 2023 the art collection of my parents, Burton & Joan Moore was exhibited again at the MIAD school in Milwaukee. The “Friends, Neighbors & Distant Comrades” exhibition included many works from the ABC No Rio cultural center and the Colab artists group, as well as artists of the East Village art movement. A second catalogue was produced; some essays from the first catalogue are posted here.
Memoir
My memoir “Art Worker” was published in Leipzig in May of 2022. It won a German design award in that year. The first run is nearly sold out. (See “Memoir” section for order info.) Behind that project is a large accumulation of papers, books and ephemera collected over 40 years related to art and politics. Some descriptions of those holdings are in this section of the website.
Projects
This section concerns my collaborative projects, mostly archival, and past exhibitions. It also links to my work on squatting, zines, blogs and publications, and a list of friends and collaborators.
Hello
This website is a portal onto my projects and concerns. It represents the collections I hold, and the postings, publications and researches I undertake. These revolve around NYC art and social history of the late 20th century, and the study of self-organized occupied spaces.
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Moore collection show scheduled at MIAD for 2023
The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design has scheduled a third iteration of the Moore collection for 2023. “Friends, Neighbors and Distant Comrades” will run from 8 August to 16 September in the MIAD galleries. Numerous visitors will come out to speak, show and perform during the run of the show, most between 23 August and the close on 16 September. Seth Tobocman, Susan Simensky-Bietila, Jim C (James Cornwell), Bobby G (Robert Goldman), Andrea Callard, Jack Waters & Peter Cramer, Mysoon Riszk, and me, Alan W. Moore have all agreed to come. The schedule is being ironed out now, and will be posted here.
The show, organized by curator Michael Flanagan and gallery director Mark Lawson, will include the work seen in summer of ’21 at the WPCA (there is a PDF catalogue to download on this site). as well as a number of other works from the ABC No Rio and Colab collections. The MIAD galleries are bigger than WPCA. We can also show erotic works we couldn’t at the Walkers Point venue.
Congratulations (and profound jealousies) to Leonard Abrams and Arthur Fournier for placing the <i>East Village Eye</i> archives with the New York Public Library. The run of that magazine I worked on, 1979-1986, covered some of the most intense years of the Lower East Side art scene we all lived through.
“Art Worker” Launch Events in NYC for May, ’22
Photo of Moore, publisher Marc Herbst (right), and Max Haiven in Berlin at the Miss Read art book fair.
NYC May 2022
5 May — Reading at benefit for XFR Collective of media archivists
XFR Collective at the P.I.T., 7-10PM, 411 S. 5th Street BKLYN
12 May — “Sidewalk launch” of Art Worker at Printed Matter, St. Marks
38 St. Marks Place, crnr 2nd Ave. 5-7PM
14 May — Reading at ETG Book Cafe, Staten Island
7PM, 208 Bay Street, SI; musical guest Christoph Mayer
19 May — Presentation at MoRUS museum, “Occupation Culture: A Conversation”
6:30 pm, 155 Avenue C, M’tan
28 May — Panel discussion at Howl Happening gallery, LES — “A World in Which…” an allusion to the Zapatista slogan, “A world in which many worlds fit.” (“Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos”.) The idea is that the NYC artworld of the ‘70s and ‘80s was far more fluid and changeable, with many more positions for its different actors to inhabit than the artworld of today. The market rules in all spheres of image-making, enforced by super-high valuations of traditional artwork, and global social media and streaming platforms. Confirmed participants: Marc H. Miller, Yasmin Ramirez, Leonard Abrams, Alan W. Moore; Stephen Zacks invited.
We arrive in NYC May 1st, ’22
First we go to the MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival (http://missread.com/) to pick up the copies of “Art Worker: Doing Time in the NY Artworld” from our publisher in Leipzig. Then we are off to NYC, the newly-cheapest Upper East Side for a month of desultory promotion. “Art Worker” will be launched at Printed Matter St. Marks on Thursday evening, 12 May 5-7pm. There might/should be a talk/signing/discussion event during May as well. NYCers like to keep you hanging….
Plans Afoot for ’23 — shows in MKE & NYC
It looks like the Moore Collection of art (explicated in detail on this website) will next be exhibited in Milwaukee, at the MIAD school (https://www.miad.edu/). They have a big gallery in the city’s Third Ward. Mike Flanagan made the proposal, and director Mark Lawson accepted it as part of the series “Exhibitions We Need to See Again”. The show, substantially the same as the WPCA exhibition last year, will run from July-September of 2023. It’ll be up in time for the sybaritic “Art Walk” event in July. I’ll pop in to MKE for a few days in June this year to work on this.
The long-awaited show of the ABC No Rio permanent collection (described in this website) looks to be going to be mounted at Howl! Happening galleries on Bowery in Fall of ’23. Jack Waters never gives up! Not sure if works from MKE will go to NYC for this show… Anybody got a truck? Well, maybe a suitcase will do for some of it.
