Cortez, Diego
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Initial List of Artists, "New York/New Wave" exhibition (1981)
Installation plan for 1975 Whitney Downtown Museum show
Installation plan.
Jimmy DeSana, Mercer St. Loft, Soho, 1977
Kodachrome slides
3 original slides used in Cortez's lecture/performance 'Hospital Colors' performed at 'April Meeting' in Belgrade (1975) and Artists Space, NYC (1976). The lecture analyzed the chromatics of institutional interiors.
Michael Cooper, Jimmy DeSana and Ray Johnson, 1978-1979
MoMA Guard, 1975-01-27
Exhibited: "Xerox and Blood", Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, Spring 1975; "40-The Anniversary Exhibition", Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC, 2015-16.
MoMA security guard notes for 1975 'Xerox and Blood' exhibition
Cortez was employed as a security guard at MoMA in 1974-75. He was invited to make a show at the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center. The exhibition was titled 'Xerox and Blood' and opened in Spring, 1975. Cortez's made several conceptual wall series which dealt with the issues of security and art. One series reflects on the attack on Picasso's Guernica by artist Tony Shafrazi.
Notes for "Cansearch Report"
These notes were made for an unrealized artist book commissioned by Mario Diacono, Bologna. 4 typewritten pages with handwritten notes in ink and pencil.
Notes for "Poisoning"
Including cues. Analytic projector film to be screened in US and Europe. Two pages, Xerox with handwritten notes.
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- Archival Object 34
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- Gelatin silver prints. 3
- New York, New York 3
- Berlin, Germany 2
- Dusseldorf, Germany 2
- Rome, Italy 2