Jack Smith, film maker, 1970's

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 silver gelatin photographs by Jimmy de Sana, 8 Polaroids by Diego Cortez, two notebooks relating to the band Boris Policeband, 26 flyers and zines (including some original paste-ups) and 3, 7" 45rpm records in picture sleeves for the bands DNA, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, and Boris Policeband.