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This letterpress edition of Journal of Evidence Weekly Volume 138 was published on the occasion of Martin Wilner's exhibition, "More Drawings about History and Evidence," at the Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York from January 4 through February 4, 2008. The Sackner Archive lent three of their original Wilner drawings to the exhibition. The Archive also holds a unique book of subway drawings with a different cast of characters seated on the train, Journal of Evidence Weekly Volume 122. The books are visual chronicles of Wilner's trips from his house to his office (he is a practicing phychiatrist) on the New York subway. He draws portraits of his fellow passengers adn records their conversations in cartoon bubbles as he evesdrops on them. Running across the top of the drawings and meandering through someof the drawings are the names of the subway stops where the action took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a visual chronicle of Wilner's trips from his house to his office (he is a practicing psychiatrist) on the New York subway. He draws portraits of his fellow passengers and records their conversations in cartoon bubbles as he evedrops on them. Running across the top of the drawings and meandering through some of the drawings are the names of the subway stops where the actions took place. He depicts a Rabbi with the Hebrew prayer Alenu making up his beard on one of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thiis catalogue includes a six page interview of Martin Wilner by Mickey Cartinin which includes his background as an artist and his personal life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These are calendar drawings with each day of the month a drawing directly or indirectly gleaned from articles in the NY Times Newspaper. The information leading to the drawing is written in graphite on the verso of the drawing. The April drawing consists of heads, the May drawing text from newspaper article headers, and map drawings from articles. The names of the places from the maps overlap from one day to another to produce a combination name that does not signify a true location, e.g., a foreign country city name meshed with a city name in the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Leslie Camhi contributes an essay, "marking Time: the Calendar ARt of martin Wilner." Phong Bui's essay is titled "the Theatrical Absurdity of Martin Wilner's Exquisite Calendars." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent three drawings to the exhibition at Pierogi gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: "Over the course of the last ten years artists have expanded the terrain of the artists' book, taking the format to new limits. Artists such as Jonathan Callan, Paul Noble, and Brian Belott manipulate found books to invent new objects that have been transformed by the artists' hands and imaginations. Beatriz Milhazes, Francesca Gabbiani, and Russell Crotty craft new books that illustrate texts that they find meaningful, from poems and songs to the artists' own musings. Simon Evans' works are harvested directly from his sketchbooks and show evidence of his obsessive process that involves scotch tape, correction fluid, and numerous layers of words and images. This exhibition includes work by thirteen international artists working today who create books alongside their other output, including painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. The artists' books included here represent a diverse range of expression, yet they share a remarkable consideration for the craft of...

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Sarah Schmerler writes about this exhibition, "Martin Wilner's series "Making History" (monthly calendar drawings started in 2002) combines disparate, often disturbing images lifted from current events - George Bush's distorted face, men in surgical masks - with snippets of ephemera like sheet music, making visual sense of a world gone chaotically awry...it's the raw and honest approach to drawing shared by Gabel and Wilner that mades the ferry trip worthwhile." The Sackner Archive holds three of the monthly calendar drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.