Art & Project Bulletins 1-156, September 1968 - November 1989

From the earliest days in 1968 when the bulletin appeared under the title of 'Architectural Research' the small statement printed on the bottom of the front page rings out with the spirit of its' time. "Art & Project plans to bring you together with the ideas of artists, architects and technicians to discover an intelligent form for your living and working space. Art & Project invites you to participate in its exhibitions which will explore ways in which art, architecture and technology can combine with your own ideas."

This statement was to prove prophetic. The bulletin became well-known and as the gallery in Amsterdam grew, it attracted artists in the Conceptual Art Movement to whom the bulletin was a way of conveying art ideas from the artist to the viewer/reader at low cost: it did not have a value except for the ideas it contained; bulletins were mailed free to an international mailing list or distributed from the gallery to visitors. The bulletins contained original material in a sequence which is determined by the artist, but the viewer/reader can read the material in any order but the artist presents it as s/he thinks it should be. As Lawrence Weiner, who made five bulletins states "THEY (BOOKS) ARE PERHAPS THE LEAST IMPOSITIONAL MEANS OF TRANSFERRING INFORMATION FRON ONE TO ANOTHER (SOURCE)."

All the key artists from this period contributed in one and others more bulletins: Robert Barry made four, Stanley Brouwn made seven, Jan Dibbets, six, Hamish Fulton, three, Gilbert & George, four, Douglas Heubler four, Sol LeWitt five, Richard Long, seven, and Allan Ruppersberg two.