Series II: Manuscripts & Writings

From The Reading Room (1).

Contains exploratory notes, drafts and scripts for Africa & I.

Lecture given on numerous occasions.

Contains screenplay drafts for At Z. Beach, written with Joe LoGuidice.

Review of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

In ARTnews.

Essay about the Cedar bar, Manhattan.

With Carol Brightman, in New York, 5 Nov 1979.

With Joseph and Steven Rivers.

Some pages missing.

In Seventeen magazine, Nov 1964.

A notebook and some loose pages containing notes for False Vagina.

Contains handwritten headings by Rivers and John Ashbery.

In Neurotica, no. 7 (autumn 1950).

Catalog from exhibition at Babcock Galleries, 31 Mar - 24 Apr 1993.

For an exhibition catalogue from Galerie Beaubourg.

From a trip to Germany; Rivers mentions his upcoming retrospective at Kestner-Gesellschaft.

With Frank O'Hara.

in Location 1:1 (Spring 1963).

Artist's Statement, International Association of Plastic Arts, MoMA symposium.

Review of Monet exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in ARTnews. Contains original manuscript with editing marks, and a photocopy of the published version.

Three notebooks containing language lessons, sketches, drafts of letters and other general notes pertaining primarily to Rivers's travels in Europe.

Contains Spanish-language lessons and notes.

On designing the set and costumes for Lukas Foss's production of the Stravinsky opera.

In Art in America.

Contains audio transcripts, notes and general writings from Rivers's travels in the USSR, at the invitation of the Union of Soviet Artists, with his son Joseph.

"Given in Washington April 1961," according to annotations.

Contains numerous handwritten and typewritten drafts, as well as a photocopy of the published version (Art in America, Nov/Dec 1978).

Annotation on front page reads: "Read at the Hotel Woodward Radical Panel?"

From Rivers's studies at New York University (B.A. Art Education, 1951).

Review of Licit and Illicit Drugs: The Consumers Union Report on Narcotics, Stimulants, Depressants, Inhalants, Hallucinogens & Marihuana - Including Caffeine, Nicotine and Alcohol.

Contains interview transcripts and notes from the film.

Contains untitled works and fragments of unidentified writings.

Typescripts of individual sections from Rivers's autobiography.

Review of Ronald Sukenick's Down and In in New York Times, Nov 1 1987.

"The Harvey Brentner Poll".

"Balthus"; "Elie Wiesel".

"The Heroes"; "Larry Rivers".

A translation of Pablo Picasso's Desire Caught by the Tail.

"Cleopatra I-IV".

"Shooting the Shit", "Hymns of St. Bridget".

"Lovesick" (screenplay)

"Larry Rivers Swims the Nile, Mississippi and Other Rivers".

"Keep Pressing the Button - Clutural Institutions Go Online"; "Helmut (The Unconventional)".

Introduction to "Vichy and the Jews".

"Blues for Note and Paint"; "How Did They Lift My Loot? Barbara Probst Solomon's Transcendent Detective Story".

City Junket.

"oh, belly belly"; "Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details".

The Suicide.

Facsimile of "The New Rhythum".

Translation of "Story of a Soldier".

"Why I Am Not a Painter".

"Johnny Blood".

"Wanda Nevada" (screenplay).

"All Hail Scrawdyke!" (screenplay).

Introduction to Larry Rivers.

"Napoleon on Saint Helena"; "Everyday Greek"; "The Long Wedding Night".

"St. Helena Passion".

A Grand Guy.

Larry Rivers; "Larry Rivers, His Heroes and the Drama of History".

"The Tinguely Machine Mystery, or The Love Suicides at Kaluka".

A Change of Hearts.

The Red Robins.

"The Lingerie Killers"; "Good Clean Fun".

"The Lingerie Killers".

"Introductory Text for Larry Rivers Book"; "Notes Towards a Sociology of Jazz".

"VKTMS: Orestes in Scenes".

"Summer Pigment".

"What He Did: Larry Rivers and the Art of Funny" (class paper).

"Alternative Americas".

"Nature and New Painting"; "Change Your Bedding!"; "Try! Try!"

"Remembering a Poet".

"The Brown Moo Bird".

Smart Hearts in the City.

Smart Hearts in the City.

"The Night the Bird Blew for Doctor Warner".

"Heaven Can't Wait"; "Child Molester"; "The Secret Life of Larry Rivers"; "Slippery When Wet"; "Twice on Top"; "The Drift"; "The Refreshing Ambiguity of the Deja Vu"; "Origins of the Lampman".

"Reflections on a Golden Heritage"; "Dynamite & Lemonade".

"Little Mister"; "Johnny Stud"; "A Hustle Not Wholly Devoid of a Certain Grossness, Granted".

The Donkey and the Darling.

"Tough City".

"D.J.".

"Larry Rivers, the Last Hippie", in Art Magazine (Oct 1992).

"Working".

"The Free Way"; "Baba and Aquarius".

Contains poems by various writers compiled together by Rivers.

"Inside My Heart".

"Riparian".

"Mahagonny".

"Presenting: The East Thirteenth Street Band!".

Contains segments of interviews Rivers conducted in preparation for his autobiography, compiled for their relevance to one specific subejct.

For New York Newsday.

Contains 3 different interview manuscripts.

Interview by Robert Enright, in Border Crossings 13:3.

Rivers interviewed along with George Segal, by Elizabeth Baker (Art in America, Nov-Dec 1977).

For COVER magazine.

For La Repubblica.

For Cambio 16.

Interview by Frank O'Hara, in Horizon 2:1.