Saturday, February 16, 2013

RAY JOHNSON'S A BAD ARCHIVE AT CW POST [211]



















































CW Post College is archiving the ABAD collection along with two boxes of New York City catalogs, invitation and announcement cards from the 1980s donated to the college by Matthew Rose.

CW Post is located on Long Island in New York.

The Post librarians and specialists who have archived and stored the collections are : Top, Jarron Jewell, Senior library assistant; middle, Erin de Marco Library School Graduate student, Queens College and bottom, Bonnie Gallagher, Library School Graduate student, LIU Post.

Joan Harrison who helped with the entire effort of getting the works into the collections at CW Post, curated wide ranging exhibition documenting Ray Johnson & A Book About Death.  She writes: "Don't you love the signage?  A BAD Archive.  Ray would have loved that and would have had to make a 'Good' archive."

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