Exhibition Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kardon, Janet
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content: Janet Kardon papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.1 Linear Feet (Box 1-5; OV 9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kardjane, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Exhibition files relate to Kardon's curated exhibitions while at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Included are correspondence with artists regarding the installation and completion of artwork; artist files consisting of photographs and research material; and ephemera and printed material. Notable artists represented in the files include Alice Aycock, David Salle, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Also included is a file related to Kardon's work on the 39th Venice Biennale exhibition Drawings: The Pluralist Decade (1980). 

Kardon's 1988 traveling exhibit, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, became a topic of national debate when the Corcoran Gallery of Art decided to cancel the exhibition. Janet Kardon was brought in as a topical expert in the court case that followed. The Perfect Moment material found here includes papers related to both the exhibition and the court case, such as correspondence, printed material, photographs, notes, and legal proceedings.