Artists book commemorating Guillermo Achille Cavellini’s visit to NYC. In 1982, Cavellini, the Italian artist whose red, white and green stickers now cover the entire world, arrived in New York City. He took me out for a ham sandwich and a beer, and I took him on a tour of New York’s magnificent Post Offices. This series of photographs (Roll 1) was made on East 10th Street (near the Galleria dell’Occhio), on our way to the 14th Street Station. We were nearly arrested in the act of defacing Public Property. Cavellini liked that.
Riding Beggar ceased publication in the 1990s. A complete run of PostHype was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1987. Incomplete sets are held by the Getty Research Institute (acquired with the Jean Brown, Bern Porter, Carlo Pittore, and other people’s papers) and active mail art archives such as the Artpool Art Research Center.
The Riding Beggar archive is housed with the John P. Jacob Papers at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University.
