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EXIT HISTORY:
FORBIDDEN FILMS: A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF CENSORSHIP IN FILMS
6/21/1984 - 8/30/1984
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: D.W. Griffith, Roberto Rossellini,
Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Genet, Mark Rydell,
Howard Hawks, Walter Hill, Gustav Machaty, Elia Kazan, Alf Sjoberg,
Shirley Clarke, Joris Ivens, H. Rappaport & A. Minkin, Louis
Malle, Haskell Wexler, Nicholas Broomfield & Joan Churchill
Exhibition: Organized in conjunction with the
New York Public Library, this three month long film series examined
seventeen films that were challenged, banned, or censored by
city and state censor boards or prosecuted in the Supreme Court
because of issues of violence, politics, racism, or sexuality.
This series, beginning with D.W. Griffith's 1915 Birth of a Nation,
was part of a larger program of exhibitions, symposia, and talks
entitled “Interpreting Censorship.” All screenings
were held at the Donnell Library Center.
Publication: An important component to the
program was a catalogue that documented the series with a critical
essay by first amendment lawyer Edward de Grazia, photographs
and historical newspaper articles detailing the reasons for censorship.
FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE: PAINTINGS
10/4/1984 - 11/3/1984
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Sam Bruskin, Marina Capalletto, Gretchen Gelb, Deborah
Kass, Kim Keever, Lilliana Luboya, Carey Marvin, Melissa Meyer,
Yolanda Shashaty, George Singley, Robert Tharsing
Exhibition: An exhibition of paintings by eleven artists who
were concerned with fantastic and surrealistic images in nature
and who used the medium of paint as a metaphor of nature. The
artists, each represented by several works, were mostly young
and had not exhibited extensively.
Travel: Wake Forest University, NC
MELISSA MEYER: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1980-1984
11/16/1984 - 12/29/1984
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: An exhibition of painting and drawings from 1980
to 1984 inaugurating Exit Art's new program of comprehensive
one person exhibitions, which provided mid-career artists the
opportunity to exhibit a large body of work, and to allow the
public to examine this work in the context of its own development
and to critically analyze it through an essay and catalogue that
placed the work within an historical context.
Publication: Catalog with an essay by Stephen Westfall, reproductions
of the work, biographical information.
MIRALDA: SANTA COMIDA/HOLY FOOD
12/4/1984 - 2/26/1985
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: An installation by multi-media artist Miralda that
explored the historical practices and present images of the religious
rituals of Afro-Cuban and Afro-American customs of feeding their
gods. The installation included a series of altars depicting
both the Christian and Yoruba gods and the foods connected with
each saint.
Publication: Color catalog documenting the installation with
an essay by Yoruba scholar John Mason.
Travel: El Museo del Barrio, New York, Dade County Museum, Miami,
FL, Fundacion Juan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
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