Art-Rite

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There was a hell of a lot of style to Art-Rite, classy style, even though it was about being thrown away.

Through its auctions, Art-Rite Auction House hopes to offer a curated variety of works of art, able to add value to the most prestigious and historical collections. Robinson meanwhile had gotten a job as a typesetter and designer for a Jewish weekly newspaper, and, he says, “We stole all the type from there until they caught me and I got fired.Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books— Art-Rite ’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to spotlighting the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York City and beyond. The magazine was famous for its covers, made by such artists as Alan Suicide, Carl Andre, Dorothea Rockburne, William Wegman, Christo, Vito Acconci, Pat Steir, Joseph Beuys, Judy Rifka, Robert Ryman, Rosemary Mayer, and Ed Ruscha.

She took three pages for a cover, and we were very poor, and very conscious of it, but we did it,” says deAk. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the feature, Art-Rite's keen editorial vision and effort to spotlight the work makes this book a significant contribution to New York and future art history.Edit DeAk, Walter “Mike” Robinson, and Joshua Cohn first met in 1972 as senior year students at Columbia University during an art criticism seminar taught by critic Brian O’Doherty. She would hurry through the office, laughing, vivid, bright-clothed, Hungarian, making herself briefly focal before she and Ingrid would run out to a gallery, a studio, a bar. After graduation, Edit moved downtown with Peter Grass into an enormous loft space on the eighth floor of 149 Wooster Street, just south of Houston Street.