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Featured spreads, both by Giorno Poetry Systems, are reproduced from ‘Information,’ MoMA’s fiftieth anniversary facsimile edition of the legendary catalog for curator Kynaston McShine’s 1970 survey of conceptual art—the first of its kind at a major institution. Featuring work by pioneering conceptualists such as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Hanne Darboven, Sol LeWitt, Lucy R. Lippard, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, John Giorno (of Giorno Poetry Systems) and many more, the catalog is one of the most satisfying examples of highbrow low-fi publishing that we’ve ever encountered. If you’re into facsimile editions, this one’s simply excellent. Giorno’s “Dial-a-Poem,” represented by the spreads reproduced here, invited museumgoers to dial the telephone number 956-7032 to hear poems read by John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Bernadette Mayer, Frank O’Hara, Bobby Seale, Anne Waldman and others. #informationshow #kynastonmcshine #johngiorno #giornopoetrysystems #dialapoem @themuseumofmodernart https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sZUKpJutZ/?igshid=2a695hxqi7ju

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RIP John Giorno, artist, poet, musician, activist. “Perhaps no Giorno piece exemplifies his precedent-busting sensibilities as succinctly as Dial-A-Poem, a service he started in late 1967,” Andrew Russeth writes in @artnews “It allowed anyone with access to a telephone to call a number—advertised in the New York Times, among other places—and hear short poems by the likes of Joe Brainard, John Cage, and Anne Waldman, as well as speeches and texts on civil rights and opposing the Vietnam War. In 1970, the curator Kynaston McShine included the piece in ‘Information’” his seminal survey of conceptual art.” This page is reproduced from the new facsimile catalogue from @themuseumofmodernart #johngiorno #informationshow https://www.instagram.com/p/B3j9Uy5JUeH/?igshid=iurqlfrsnfbb