Cortez, Diego
Person
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Sketches for wall paintings for 1976 'Cataratta Riflesso Rosso' exhibition, Galleria Trisorio
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 6
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
Approximately 135 pieces complied by Diego Cortez comprising of material related to both his 1981 No Wave show at PS1 and many of the personalities involved in the artistic and musical scenes of the period, including Jimmy DeSana, James Chance, Anya Phillips, Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Robert Gordon, Glenn O'Brien, Legs O'Neil, Ray Johnson, Debbie Harry, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. The collection also contains concert flyers, photographs, and exhibition materials, including early...
Dates:
1972 - 1981
Storyboads for William S. Burroughs film project, Blade Runner
Item — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924113871085]
Scope and Contents
Extracts from Burroughs' text with notations and collage elements by Cortez, mounted on drawing paper pad. In 1979, Cortez asked Burroughs and his assistant, James Grauerholz, for the film rights for the book and was granted permission. The film was never realized. Burroughs' book is a sci-fi novella which began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's novel 'The Bladerunner.' Burroughs' treatment has been described as a closet screenplay. It is set in the...
Dates:
1972 - 1981
Study for announcement card for Diego Cortez "SMEAR" exhibition
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Galerie Konrad Fischer.
Dates:
1972 - 1981
Unidentified (2), 1978-1979
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113573848], Folder: 1
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
The collection features material focused on Cortez's activities as co-founder and manager of the Mudd Club, 1977-1979, with items by or relating to artists with whom he collaborated, such as Jimmy de Sana, Arto Lindsay, Kathy Acker, James Nares and Boris Policeband, and Diego's original artwork for the seminal "No New York" (1978) LP. There are 7 black and white photographs (5x7) by Digne Meller Marcovicz taken around Diego's film "Grutzi Elvis" shot in Germany (1978), 11 black and white...
Dates:
1978-1979
Works from 1975 Whitney Downtown Museum show
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113867406], Folder: 4
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
From the Collection:
Approximately 135 pieces complied by Diego Cortez comprising of material related to both his 1981 No Wave show at PS1 and many of the personalities involved in the artistic and musical scenes of the period, including Jimmy DeSana, James Chance, Anya Phillips, Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Robert Gordon, Glenn O'Brien, Legs O'Neil, Ray Johnson, Debbie Harry, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. The collection also contains concert flyers, photographs, and exhibition materials, including early...
Dates:
1972 - 1981
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- Archival Object 34
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- Gelatin silver prints. 3
- New York, New York 3
- Berlin, Germany 2
- Dusseldorf, Germany 2
- Rome, Italy 2