Jasia Reichardt is a British art critic, editor, curator

Curator

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, and gallery director with an interest in art and its intersection with other fields, especially technology.

Career

Jasia Reichardt edited Art News and Review, the weekly paper devoted to the fine arts in the 1950s. She was assistant director at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...

, London (ICA) 1963-1971, where she organized the exhibit Cybernetic Serendipity

Cybernetic Serendipity

"Cybernetic Serendipity" was an exhibition of computer art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968, and then touring the United States.-Content:...

 and wrote the book of the same name. She served as director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery 1974-1976.

Collection

• Jasia Reichardt archive of concrete and sound poetry, 1959-1977. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California. British art critic, editor, and curator born in Poland. The collection consists of poetry in a variety of media: manuscripts and typescripts, screenprints and posters, collages and original graphics, sound recordings, photoprints, and objects. Artists include Ronaldo Azedredo, Stephen Bann, Derek Boshier, Eugenio Carmi, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Ludwig Gosewitz, Brian Hindmarch, Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator.-Life and career:Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families...
  
  , D.S. Houedard, Ferdinand Kriwet, John Latham, Christopher Logue, Edward Lucie-Smith, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Seiichi Niikuni (and the Tokyo Assn. for the Study of Arts [ASA]), Tom Phillips, John Sharkey, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Mary Ellen Solt, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and Wolf Vostell.

Letters

• Jasia Reichardt letters received, ca. 1960-1983. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California. Many of the letters are highly detailed and personal and some are illustrated. A group of letters are in response to a survey of British art of the 1970s. Occasionally, original works of art on paper are included. Correspondents include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Luis Benedit (with working drawings for his "Animal Habitats"), Max Bill, Derek Boshier (some with illustrations), Eugenio Carmi, Henri Chopin, Harold Cohen, John Davies, Patricia Douthwaite, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Dom Silvester Houedard, Patrick Hughes
  Patrick Hughes (artist)
  Patrick Hughes is a British artist working in London. He is the creator of "reverspective", an optical illusion on a 3-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest....
  
  , Terence Illot, R.B. Kitaj, Ferdinand Kriwet, Bruce Lacey, John Latham, Andrew Logan, Leopoldo Maler, Brian Nissen, Nam June Paik, Victor Pasmore, Deanna Petherbridge, Tom Phillips, John Piper, Martin Riches, Peter Stroud, Kohei Sugiura, Joe Tilson, Georges Vantongerloo and Karl Weschke.

External Links

• Jasia Reichardt correspondence, 1956-1987. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California The collection consists of poetry in a variety of media: manuscripts and typescripts, screenprints and posters, collages and original graphics, sound recordings, photoprints, and objects.