Show & Tell: Achronicle of Group Material

In 1979, the artist collective Group Material opened a storefront at East 13th Street on New York´s Lower East Side, from which they launched exhibitions-45 in all-that radically overhauled curatorial thought, setting art alongside artifacts, documentary material and storebought objects, within exhibitions that were oriented around topical social concerns. Group Material´s original members-Julie Ault, Patrick Brennan, Beth Jaker, Mundy McLaughlin, Marybeth Nelson, Tim Rollins and Peter Szypula-came from backgrounds in feminism, Marxist theory, design and popular culture, and curated classic exhibits reflecting this eclecticism, such as It´s a Gender Show, AIDS Timeline and The People´s Choice-a collection of everyday objects (wedding photos, dolls, even a cigarette-pack collage) gathered from people living on their block. Show & Tell is the first monograph on Group Material, and charts the group´s activities, with essays by original members, plus original documents, photographs, drawings, correspondence and interviews.