Merle Schipper, outstanding art critic in Southern California, has passed
away. She has left a large archive of slides which document openings of
exhibitions for the past thirty years, as well as contemporary art slides of
cutting edge artists in the Southern California community. Her family would
like to place this archive--a large black slide file with a dozen drawers
packed full of slides organized by Merle--in an archive in Southern
California that will make these slides available. The Archives of American
Art does not have "slides" as part of their mission statement, so we need to
find a home for them. Please, if you have or know of an accessible
collection such as this which could be amplified, one which also archives
the current L.A. scene (current for the past 30 years), please contact
Judith A. Hoffberg, [log in to unmask], or (310)399-1146. We have to
vacate her apartment by the 30th of November, but I can hold the slides
until the proper home is found only through 31 December 2001. Please help.
Judith
Judith A. Hoffberg
Umbrella
P.O. Box 3640
Santa Monica, CA 90408
http://geocities.com/books2eat
http://colophon.com/journal
tel: (310)399-1146, fax: 399-5070
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