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A long-awaited facsimile of Lawrence and Hujar's legendary '60s magazine documenting artists and photographers from Diane Arbus and Yayoi Kusama to Paul Thek and Lucas Samaras Published by Steve Lawrence and edited alongside Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, Newspaper was issued in New York City between 1968 and 1971. A wordless, picture-only periodical that replicated the scale of the New York Times, Newspaper ran for 14 issues and featured the disparate practices of over 40 artists. With an editorial focus on placing appropriated material alongside new artworks, the periodical sought to codify a visual language of high and low culture that represented contemporary society in the late 1960s. While largely overlooked in art-historical discourse, Newspaper showcased many of the most revered artists working in the United States at the time, as well as an emerging coterie of queer artists. All issues of Newspaper are collected and reprinted here for the first time. Artists include: Diane Arbus, Art Workers Coalition, Richard Avedon, Clyde Baines, Sheyla Baykal, Peter Beard, Brigid Berlin, Richard Bernstein, Ann Douglas, Paul Fisher, Maurice Hogenboom, Peter Hujar, Scott Hyde, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ray Johnson, Edwin Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Gerald Laing, Dorothea Lange, Steve Lawrence, Jeff Lew, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Mercado, Duane Michals, Jack Mitchell, Forrest ""Frosty"" Myers, Billy Name, Stephen Paley, Warner Pearson, Warner Piepke, Charles Pratt, Joseph Raffael, Mel Ramos, Lilo Raymond, Ruspoli-Rodriguez, Lucas Samaras, Alan Saret, Bill Schwedler, Leni Sinclair, Norman Snyder, Elizabeth Staal, Stanley Stellar, Terry Stevenson, Paul Thek, Andrew Ullrick, Andy Warhol, William T. Wiley and May Wilson.

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"Looking at Newspaper is like looking at print media's subconscious, at what it's thinking, not what it's doing. The newspaper, traditionally conceived as a medium of trust, is revealed to be a medium of desire.--Dan Fox ""Frieze"" Newspaper's eccentricity and nerve were just right for the times, and when it came to knockout visual impact the paper had no rivals.--Vince Aletti ""New Yorker"" Putting together such disparate images as grinning crocodiles, crying babies and kissing men also elicits a range of rich and enigmatic associations that showcase the young Lawrence's innovative, often inspired approach to editing.--Alastair Curtis ""AnOther"""

"The kind of seeing Newspaper proposes distills our essentially disjointed experience of images today...perhaps Lawrence and Hujar already demonstrated how to deal with a communication world where visual information, likewise, seemed beyond the scope of comprehension: simply create your own.--Noa Wesley ""Brooklyn Rail"" Looking at Newspaper is like looking at print media's subconscious, at what it's thinking, not what it's doing. The newspaper, traditionally conceived as a medium of trust, is revealed to be a medium of desire.--Dan Fox ""Frieze"" Newspaper's eccentricity and nerve were just right for the times, and when it came to knockout visual impact the paper had no rivals.--Vince Aletti ""New Yorker"" Putting together such disparate images as grinning crocodiles, crying babies and kissing men also elicits a range of rich and enigmatic associations that showcase the young Lawrence's innovative, often inspired approach to editing.--Alastair Curtis ""AnOther"""

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