The library also has some 180,000 manuscripts, an enormous collection of prints, and collections of maps, drawings and paintings, sheet music, phonograph records, and medals and antiques.
Lisa Myer, a 49-year-old antiques dealer, says that two years ago she found the conductor's belongings — photographs, letters, paintings, sheet music and other memorabilia — in a trash bin outside the house.
4. Mark Cunningham, a New York designer, improvised a tablecloth by spray-painting sheets of newspaper.
I well remember the pleasant shock of his show at Virginia Dwan's gallery, on Fifty-seventh Street, in 1971, of identically big, square, white paintings on sheets of vinyl, which were held to the wall by paint that ran over their edges.
Rather than forming a single surface, as in modern palm-leaf paintings, the sheets in books were meant to be seen one at a time.
In addition to doing conceptual art, sculpture and paintings (paper sheets covered with fluorescent highlighter or marker pens), he has a rock band, Owada, formed in 1994, which performed at the opening of the Bard exhibition earlier this month.
One of his tricks is the focus of this interesting exhibition: he would often apply to paintings large sheets of semitransparent paper, or vellum, and make a tracing in charcoal of the picture's composition.
It includes four paintings on sheets of metal that depict scenes from the birth of Jesus.
Exploring the histories of the Hebrew-speaking Habima theater and the Yiddish-speaking Moscow State Yiddish Theater, the exhibition includes drawings, paintings, photographs, posters, sheet music, costumes and clips from vintage films.
The story of those companies, Habima and the Moscow State Yiddish Theater — or, as it was known by its acronym, Goset — is told in a big, walk-in scrapbook of a show presenting more than 200 pieces of art and ephemera including drawings, paintings, photographs, posters, sheet music, costumes and clips from vintage films.
In Arnhem Land, paintings on bark sheets included both figurative images and the geometric designs typically used in sacred contexts.
