Some Serious Business (Firm)
Size: 6.6 linear ft.
Summary: This collection includes correspondence with artists, exhibition announcements, flyers, posters, and financial records of the alternative art organization, Some Serious Business that was located in Venice, California.
Art organization; Venice, Calif. Susan Martin, was co-founder in 1976 along with Elizabeth Freeman and Nancy Drew. Some Serious Business was among the leading avant-garde organizations sponsoring and showcasing underground performance/conceptual art and music in the late 1970s.
Donated 2000 by Susan Martin.
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Some Serious Business records, 1976-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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