The Chronicle: 5/13/2005: Filling in the 'Blank Generation'

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The Chronicle: 5/13/2005: Filling in the 'Blank Generation': "In the near silence of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University, senior archivist Ann Butler guides writer and punk-rock icon Richard Hell through the procedures for working with his own papers.
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For nearly a decade, Mr. Taylor has been assembling the collection to document the activities of avant-garde artists in lower Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to Mr. Hell's papers, the Downtown Collection -- which is housed in the Fales's rooms on the third floor of the larger Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square -- includes the archives of artistic luminaries such as photographer David Wojnarowicz (1954-92), and influential organizations, including the Judson Memorial Church (a key performance space for postmodern dance) and the Mabou Mines theater company, a collective that emphasized script development and interdisciplinary collaboration with composers, musicians, and visual artists.

The Downtown Collection's materials are as challenging as the artists whose work it contains. For example, the Wojnarowicz collection boasts voice-mail messages and artwork as well as the photographer's journals and correspondence."