ROBERT WATTS Biography and Bibliography[*]
ROBERT WATTS életrajz és bibliográfia[*]
Born / Született: 1923, Burlington, Iowa, USA
Died / Meghalt: 1988, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
Education / tanulmányai:
University of Louisville, B.M.E., 1944
Art Students League, New York, 1948
Columbia University, New York, M.A., Art History, 1951
Teaching / Oktatási tevékenysége:
Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York 1951–1952
Professor of Art, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1953–1984
Resident Artists in Film and Mixed Media, 1964–1982
Carnegie Corporation Visual Artists Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1968/69
Individual Exhibitions / Egyéni kiállításai
1958 Delacorte Gallery, New York.
1960 Objects, Motorized Constructions. Grand Central Moderns, New York.
1962 Constructions, Objects, Events and Games. Grand Central Moderns, New York.
1966 Three Environments and Objects. Bianchini Gallery, New York.
Neons and Objects. Ricke Gallery, Kassel, Germany.
1967 Galleria Christian Stein, Torino, Italy.
1968 Neon: Objekte, Skulpturen. Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
1970 Neon. Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
1971 Addendum to Pop. Apple Gallery, New York.
1973 Auto Series (photo murals). La Bertesca, Milan, Italy.
Retrospective exhibition, Galerie Baecker, Bochum, Germany.
1974 Retrospective exhibition, Multhipla, Milan, Italy.
1975 Signatures in Neon: Old and New Masters. Multhipla, Milan, Italy.
1976 New Light on West Africa. René Block Gallery, New York.
1977 Cloud Music. (in collaboration with Bob Diamond and David Behrman) San
Francisco Art Institute, California.
Oraculum. Studio Morra, Naples, Italy.
1988 Memorial Exhibition, Downtown Arts Building, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
1989 Silkscreen Editions. Krief Galerie, Paris.
Flux Med: Robert Watts, Obra Grafica 1987. Joan Guaita, Estudi d’art
Contemporani, Madrid, Palma, Spain.
1990 Robert Watts, Selected Works 1960–1988. Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Robert Watts, L’Objet Photographique et Autres Oeuvres. Galerie Zabriskie, Paris.
A Tribute to Robert Watts. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
1991 Watts Natural: Selected Works by Robert Watts, 1964-1987.
Lafayette College of Art, Easton, PA.
1996 Robert Watts: Artistamps/1961-1986. Stamp Art Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1999 Robert Watts: The Invisible Man of Pop and Fluxus, The Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel, Germany.
Bob Watts. Obalne Galerije, Piran, Slovenia.
2001 Flux Med: Graphic Works by Robert Watts, Bucknell Art Gallery,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
Robert Watts: Photography Into Sculpture and other works.
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York.
2006 Robert Watts: Art on Art. Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitons & Performances /
Válogatott csoportos kiállítások és performanszok
1960 New Forms, New Media II. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Magic Kazoo, 24 hour Happening. New York and New Jersey.
1961 Assemblage. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Art In Motion. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
1962 Fluxus International Festival. USA, Canada, Europe, Japan.
1962–3 Yam Festival. An International Event Series.
1963 Biennale, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris.
Popular Image. Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC.
1963 Mixed Media and Pop Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Blink Works at Sissor Bros. Warehouse, with Alison Knowles and George Brecht,
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1964 Introducing: Richard Artschwager, Christo, Alex Hay and Robert Watts,
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
American Supermarket. Bianchini Gallery, New York.
Boxes. Dwan Gallery, New York.
Fluxus Performance. Carnegie Recital Hall, New York.
1965 Contemporary American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Perpetual Fluxfest. New Cinémathèque, New York.
1966 Electric Art. Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris.
Art Turned On. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
10 from Rutgers. Bianchini Gallery, New York.
1967 Art Total. Stockholm. Events and Films.
1968 The Machine. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Information. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Photography Into Sculpture. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Word As Image. The Jewish Museum, New York.
String & Rope. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
1970 Happening und Fluxus. Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (and European tour).
1971 This is Not Here. Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York.
Photography Into Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
1972 Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany.
1973 Art Fair, Berne, Switzerland.
1974 Canadian/American Sky. Electric Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Artist Stamps. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
Flux Year/Gemini/Part 1. Performance, Onnasch Gallery, New York.
Collectors of the Seventies. Sohm Archive. The Clocktower, New York.
Artists Make Toys. The Clocktower, New York.
Language & Structure. Kensington Arts Center, Toronto, Canada.
Flux Harpsichord Recital. Anthology Film Archives, New York.
1976 Soho/Berlin. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
Artists’ Stamps & Stamp Images. Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.
1977 Improbable Furniture. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
The Museum of Drawers. Bibliotek des Stadtischen Museum, Prediger, Germany.
1978 Private Images: Photographs by Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, California.
The Museum of Drawers. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Another Aspect of Pop Art. P.S.1, New York.
Can Opening. Fellus Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979 Re-visions. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Clothing Constructions. Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
International Mail Art. Véhicule Art, Montreal, Canada.
Flux Concert. The Kitchen, New York.
1980 Für Augen und Ohren. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
Ecouter par les Yeux, Objets et Environments Sonores.
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1980.
Further Furniture. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1981 Fluxus etc. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, The Gilbert and Lila Silverman
Fluxus Collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Cloud Music. (with Bob Diamond and David Behrman),
New Music America ‘81 Festival, San Francisco, California.
Soundings. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase.
1982 Objects, Graphics, Scores. Museum Weisbaden, Germany.
Artists’ Postage Stamps. Musée Postal, Brussels, Belgium.
World x Art x Post. Fészek Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
An Evening of Entertainments. Verona, Italy.
1983 Art Hats. Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany.
1984 Blam: The Explosion of Pop. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Global Mail Art Show. Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Canada.
1985 Festival of Fantastics. Galerie Sct. Agnes, Roskilde, Denmark.
Artists’ Postage Stamps. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Weddel, Germany.
1986 As Found. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition. The Gallery of Art,
University of Northern Iowa
Frohliche Wissenschaft. Sohm Archive, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.
1987 Made in USA. University of California, Berkeley, California.
Stamp Images. Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts),
Budapest, Hungary
1988 FluxLux, The Last Event of Robert Watts. (memorial events after artist’s
instruction), Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.
Art After Silence. Walters Hall Art Gallery, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1989 Fluxus: Moment and Continuum. Stux Gallery, New York.
Happenings & Fluxus. Galerie 1900–2000, Galerie de Poche and Galerie du Genie,
Paris.
Conspicuous Display. Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden,
New Jersey.
Image World. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1990 Exotism. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut.
The Readymade Boomerang. Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia.
Ubi Fluxus, ibi motus, 1962–1990. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Fluxus, Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan.
Fluxus: Beuys-Cage-Brecht-Filliou-Maciunas-Knowles-Kopcke-Vautier-
Watts-Williams.
Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection.
Portland School of Art, Maine.
Fluxus subjektiv, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
Fluxus Closing In, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York.
1991 Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art, Art Institute, Bard College
and the New York Historical Society, New York.
Les Couleurs de l’Argent, Museé de la Poste, Paris. (to Feb. 1992)
Flux Attitudes, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
Curated by Cornelia Lauf and Susan Hapgood.
1992 Music for Eye & Ear, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York.
Pioneers of Video Art, [Cloud Music], Ars Electronica, Linz Austria.
Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now,
International Center of Photography, Midtown (ICP), New York.
Fluxus Virus, Galerie Schuppenhauer, Cologne, Germany.
Fluxus, A Conceptual Country, Franklin Furnace and Anthology Film Archives,
New York.
In and Around Fluxus, Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
Fluxus: 10 Years on Broadway, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York.
1993 In The Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and
The Whitney Museum, New York City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Photographic: Works of the Sixties and Seventies, Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
Sob a Influencia do Fluxus, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Reflet-Restitution, La Sculpture pop er hyperéaliste. Abbaye Saint André,
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France.
Objects and Events: Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles & Robert Watts,
Feigen Incorporated, Chicago.
1994 Mail-Art, Netzwerk der Künstler, PTT Museum, Bern, Switzerland.
Neo Dada: Redefining Art 1958-1962. Touring to: Scottsdale Center for the Arts,
Arizona;
Equitable Gallery, New York; Sarah Cambell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston,
and others.
In The Spirit of Fluxus, touring continued to Wexner Center for the Arts,
Columbus, Ohio:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA;
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain.
1995 L’art du Tampon, Musée de la Poste, Paris.
In The Spirit of Fluxus, touring continued to Musées de Marseille,
France and Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.
1996 Handmade Readymades, Hunter College, The Bertha and
Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery.
1997 Networking: Art by post and fax, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery,
London. (Touring U.K. thru 1999).
Francesco Conz and the Intermedia Avant-Garde, Queensland Art Gallery,
Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, University Art Museum,
California State University, Long Beach, CA. (Touring to August 2000,
throughout USA).
1998 Pop Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, CA. and Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The ‘60s in the Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY.
Food Matters, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA and
E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York.
1999 Dada Country: Duchamp and Friends in New Jersey, Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, NJ.
Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965. Henry Art Gallery,
Seattle, WA.
Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, The Newark Museum,
Newark, NJ.
Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events,
Objects, Documents,
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York.
Arranged Marriage: Wallace Berman & Robert Watts, Roth Horowitz Gallery,
New York.
2000 Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events,
Objects, Documents,
List Center for the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
2001 Les années Pop, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.
Fluxus Games from the Gilbert & Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation Collection,
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA.
2001 Archival Assemblages: Rutgers and the Avant-Garde, 1953-64. Special Collections
and University Archives Gallery at Alexander Library, Rutgers University.
Sept. 12-14, 2001.
Silver. Group show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
American Tableaux: Selections from the Collection of Walker Art Center,
Walker Art Center. Minneapolis (thru June, 2002).
2002 Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, (The American Supermarket),
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,
Germany and Tate Liverpool, UK.
Fluxus Film Fest, Madrid. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.
2003 A Happening Place, The Galleries of The Gershman Y, Philadelphia,
PA. April 29 – June 30.
Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in The Collection of the Museum of
Modern Art,
New York State Museum, Albany, NY and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and
Rutgers University 1958–1972.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA and Mason Gross Art Galleries,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Money For Nothing. Artspace, Newton, Aukland, New Zealand.
American Supermarket. Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982.
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Centraal Fluxus Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2004 The Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York.
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, The Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis
Past Presence, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
The Fine Line (Between Something and Nothing), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks
and Projects, New York.
2005 Past Presence, The Grolier Club, New York.
George Brecht: Events, A Heterospective, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
2006 Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, The Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York.
Mass Production: Artist’s Multiples and the Marketplace, Emily Davis Gallery at
the Myers School of Art / The University of Akron, Ohio.
George Brecht: Events, A Heterospective, (Media Installation of Yam Lecture),
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona.
From the Collection: Works of Light, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
(MUMOK), Vienna.
Fokus 03: Concept. Action. Language, (Media Installation of Yam Lecture),
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna.
2007 Fluxus East: Networks in Central Eastern Europe, Küntslerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Touring to Vilnius, Krakow, Budapest, others.
ParaStamp: Four Decades of Artistamps, from Fluxus to the Internet.
Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary
.
Copied Right, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong.
2008 Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York.
Fluxus East: Networks in Central Eastern Europe, Ludwig Museum,
Budapest, Hungary.
Selected Bibliography / Válogatott bibliográfia
Publications / Kiadványok
Popular Image. Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1963.
The International Avant-Garde. Schwarz, Milan, 1964.
Dick Higgins. Postface. 1964.
Al Hansen. A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art. Something Else Press, New York, 1965.
Allan Kaprow. Assemblage, Environments, Happenings. Abrams, New York, 1966.
Lucy Lippard. Pop Art. Praeger, New York, 1966.
10 from Rutgers. Bianchini Gallery, New York, 1966.
Focus on Light. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1967.
Maurice Tuchman. A Report on the Art and Technology Program of
the Los Angeles County Museum, 1967–1971.
Pontus Hulten. The Machine. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968.
John Cage. Notations. Something Else Press, New York,1969.
John Russell and Suzi Gablik. Pop Art Redefined. Thames and Hudson, London, 1969.
String & Rope. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1969.
Sammlung Beck. Pop. Rheinland-Ürlag, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1970.
Kynaston McShine, Ed. Information. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970.
Bildnerische Ausdrucksformen. Sammlung Karl Ströher. Katalog des Hessischen.
Landesmuseum No. 4. Darmstadt, Germany, 1970.
Happenings & Fluxus. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany, 1970.
Documenta 5. Kassel, Germany, 1972.
Neue Galerie Der Stadt Aachen Der Bestand ‘72: Art Around 1970. Köln, Germany, 1972.
Fluxshoe. Beau Geste Press, Devon, England, 1972.
Douglas Davis. Art & the Future. Praeger, New York, 1973.
Combattimento per Un’Immagine. Il Museo Civico di Torino, Italy, 1973.
Contemporanea. Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Rome, 1974.
New York-Downtown: Soho. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 1976.
Silke Paull and Herve Wurz. “Fluxus, How We Met”, AQ 16. Antibes, 1977.
Harry Ruhe, Ed. Fluxus, the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties.
‘A’ Amsterdam, 1979.
Bruno Damini. Omnia mea mecum porto. Pari & Dispari, Cavriago, Italy, 1979.
Richard Kostelanetz, Ed. Scenarios. Assembling Press, Brooklyn, New York, 1980.
Portfluxus. Factotumbook 28, Verona, Italy, 1980.
Six Propositions (for communicating). The Art Gallery at Harbourfest, Toronto, 1980.
Für Augen und Ohren. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, 1980.
Jon Hendricks, Ed., Fluxus Etc. The Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1981.
Irene Adelman. Art Hats. Harlekin Art, 1983.
Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas, Ed. The Art of Performance. E.P. Dutton,
New York, 1984.
Barbara Haskell. Blam: The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism & Performance 1958–1964.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1984.
Born In Iowa. The Iowa Arts Council, Des Moines, 1986.
Jon Hendricks. Fluxus Codex. Abrams, New York, 1988.
Clive Phillpot and Jon Hendricks. Fluxus: Selections from The Gilbert and
Lila Silverman Collection.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988.
Charles Dreyfus. Happenings & Fluxus. Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, 1989.
Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips, John G. Hanhardt. Image World.
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989.
Ken Friedman, Francesco Conz and Joan Guaita. Flux Med. Joan Guaita,
Estudi d’Art Contemporani, Madrid, 1989.
Klaus Ottmann. Exotism. Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut, 1990.
René Block, The Sydney Biennale and The Museum of Contemporary Art,
The Readymade Boomerang: Certain
Relations in 20th Century Art. Sydney, Austrailia, 1990.
Achille Bonito Oliva. Ubi Fluxus, ibi motus,1962–1990. La Biennale di Venezia, 1990.
La Biennale di Venezia and Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy.
Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: A Continuing History, Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, 1990.
Cornelia Lauf and Susan Hapgood, FluxAttitudes, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,
Buffalo, 1991.
Jean-Michel Ribettes, Les Couleurs de Argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, 1992.
Peter Weibel, Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka, Pioneers of Electronic Art,
Ars Electronica 1992.
Charles Stainback, Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now,
International Center of 1992.
Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss, In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, 1993.
Also published by Musées de Marseille, France and Fundacio Antoni Tapies,
Barcelona, Spain.
Jill Johnston, “A Fluxus Funeral”, Secret Lives in Art,
Essays on Art Literature and Performance, a cappella books,
Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1994.
Thomas Weaver, Handmade Readymades, 1996. Hunter College,
The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery.
Robert Watts: Artistamps/1961-1986. 1996. Stamp Art Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Networking: Art by post and fax, 1997. Hayward Gallery, London.
Anne Kirker & Nicholas Zurbrugg, Ed., Francesco Conz and the Intermedia Avant-Garde.
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Cultural Centre. Brisbane, Australia, 1997.
Constance W. Glenn, The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties.
Smart Art Press, Santa Monica,
CA and the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA. 1997.
Allen S. Weiss, ed. Taste, Nostalgia, Lusitania Press, 1998.
Elizabeth Armstrong, ed. Double Trouble: The Tom Patchett Collection.
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, CA and Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Joan Marter, Off Limits: Rutgers Univeristy and the Avant-Garde, The Newark Museum,
Newark, New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Robert Watts: The Invisible Man of Pop and Fluxus, The Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel, Germany
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Judith Rodenbeck, Experiments in the Everyday:
Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events, Objects, Documents, 2000.
Les années Pop, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2001.
Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Tate Liverpool.
Christoph Grunenberg and Max Hollein, 2002.
Gilbert’s Living With Art, Sixth Edition by Mark Getlein, McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2002.
Geoffrey Hendricks, Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance,
Intermedia and Rutgers University
1958–1972. Rutgers University Press,
New Brunswick, NJ, 2003.
American Art Since 1945, by David Joselit, published by Thames and Hudson Ltd.
London, 2003.
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, by Douglas Fogle.
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003.
Periodicals / Folyóiratok
Brian O’Doherty. “Art Machines in Revolt”, The New York Times. Jan. 11, 1962.
Max Kozloff. “Pop Culture & New Vulgarians”, Art International. Mar. 1962.
Grace Glueck. “Gallery Market Hawks Art on Rye”, The New York Times. Oct. 8, 1964.
“Supermarket Art Gallery”, Life Magazine. Nov. 20, 1964.
“Fluxus”, Tulane Drama Review. Winter 1965.
Nicolas Calas. “Why Not Pop Art”, Art & Literature. Spring 1965.
“They Call it Art”, The New York Times Magazine. Sept. 25, 1966.
“On the New York Scene”, Harper’s Bazaar. July 1966.
Allen Schöner. “New Aesthetic”, Art Voices. Fall 1966.
“Light Art”, Art In America. May/June 1967.
Grace Glueck. “If it’s Art you want, try your Supermarket”, The New York Times.
Aug. 6, 1967.
Robert Manoff. “Think Paper”, Craft Horizons. Nov. 1967.
Peter Bunnell. “Photography into Sculpture”, Arts Canada. June 1970.
Letty Eisenhauer. “Transformations from Nature”, Art & Artists. Nov. 1973.
“Re-Visions”, Arts Magazine. Sept. 1979.
“Retool: Computer Art”, Arts Magazine. Sept. 1983.
Michel Giroud. “(Hom)mage A Robert Watts”, Kanal Magazine, Kao No. 2 Supplement,
Paris, 1989.
Jill Johnston. “A Fluxus Funeral”, Art In America. March 1989.
Jean-Francois Chevrier, “Image-Objet”, Galeries Magazine. February-March 1991.
Larry Miller, “Robert Watts: Scientific Monk”, Kunstforum International,
September-October 1991.
Robert Mahoney, “New York In Review”, Arts Magazine, March 1991
Estera Milman, “Fluxus, A Conceptual Country”, Visible Language Vol. 26 1/2,
Winter/Spring 1992.
Sara Seagull, “Robert Watts Stamp Rememorative”, Artistamp News, February 1993
Dirk Snauwaert, “Robert Watts, La Signature dans l’oevre d’art”, Exposé Revue d’Esthetique et d’Art Contemporain, March 1994.
Brooks Adams, “Off-Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963”
Art Forum, Summer 1999.
Review: “Off-Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963”
New York Times, Feb. 1999.
Sid Sachs, Review of Robert Watts and Allan Kaprow at Wallach Gallery, Columbia University,
Art in America, March 2000.
“Watts Towers”, Review, New York Magazine, May 28, 2001.
Ken Johnson, Review, Photography Into Sculpture, The New York Times, June 15, 2001.
Review of Robert Watts exhibit at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, Artforum, Oct. 2001.
Dena Shottenkirk, “Conceptual Think-See: Three Generations of Conceptual Artists”,
C. International
Contemporary Art, Issue 73, Spring 2002.
“Art on Art” Review, Time Out New York, June 22-28, 2006.
Yves Alain Bois, “Art on Art” Review, Artforum, October, 2006.
Michael Duncan, Robert Watts at Leslie Tonkonow, Review, Art in America, Dec. 2006.
Selected Collections / Művei gyűjteményekben (válogatás)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
J. Paul Getty Center Museum, Los Angeles
MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Vienna
Tate Britain, London, U.K.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Frankfurt Museum for Modern Art, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Judith Rothschild Collection, New York
Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit, MI
The Tom Patchett Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Frank Kolodny Collection, Princeton, NJ
Collection Werner Kramarsky, New York
Archivio Francesco Conz Collection, Verona, Italy
Emily Harvey Foundation Collection, New York
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Brandeis University Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
John and Komiko Powers Collection (Academy for Educational Development), Washington, DC
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago
Hayward Gallery, The Arts Council of England, London, UK
The Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Braunschweig, Germany.
Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
Karl Ströher Collection, Darmstadt and Köln, Germany
Collection Hermann Braun, Remscheid, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich
Rene Block Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
PTT Museum, Bern, Switzerland
Awards and Honors / Díjak, kitüntetések
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Experimental Workshop Award, 1964
Rutgers University Research Council, nine grants 1961–1975
and Faculty Fellowship 1971–72
FASP Grant 1975–76; 1982–83
C.I.D. Grant 1978
CAPS Grant, New York State Council of the Arts, 1975–76
Fellowship, National Endowments for the Arts, 1976–77
Awards and Honors (Posthumous) / Posztumusz díjak, kitüntetések
Judith Rothschild Foundation, NYC, 1997
[*] Compiled by Larry Miller and Sara Seagull, Robert Watts Estate, New York City (March 2008)
Published in: Robert Watts. Flux Med, exhibition catalogue, Art-pool, Budapest, 2008, pp. 40-48.
[*] Összeállította: Larry Miller és Sara Seagull, Robert Watts Hagyaték, New York City (2008 március) Publikálva: in Robert Watts. Flux Med, kiállítási katalógus, Artpool, Budapest, 2008, pp. 40-48.