Tom Phillips comments on El Greco's paintings at an exhibition held in the National Portrait Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Moss writes "The four children of the Passover Haggadah intrigue us every year...We now open the folder and we see these four children in a rather unconventional treatment...The unification of the folksy and the literate are embodied here. For each of these primitive looking four children is actually a Hebrew word. When turned on its side and opened, each one's title magically appears: Chacham - the Wise one; Rasha - the Wicked one; Tam the Simple one and SHYL - the one who dooes not know how to ask." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem deals with philosophy of one's self. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This Christmas presentation book subtitled "On the Way to Little Sparta" was conceived by Finlay and photographed by Robin Gillanders. It relates the closing of Finlay's famed garden by the Scottish government. The sign on the first gate into the garden reads, "Following the authority's action against the Garden Temple, Little Sparta is closed to the public." The second gate sign reads, "Strathclyde Region made war on Little Sparta - Strathclyde Region is no more." The third gate sign reads, "Closed with the support of The Scottish Arts Council." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a review the Gallery Diet exhibitions of 2010. It includes the show by Rachel Perry Welty whose large collage based on the Talking Heads song s held by the Sackner Archive. This piece has been loaned to exhibitions and is expected to be returned to the Sackner Archive in 2012. It is noteworthy that a large color photograph by Welty about the same size as the Sackner held collage was priced at $8,000 as one of an edition of six copies by Yancy Richardson Gallery at Pulse Art Fair Miami in December 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each of the artists describes his/her methods and thought processes involved in the creation of the works. The cohesive elements in the visual poems are the use of color and form. This publication was a gift from the poets on the occasion of their visit to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

David Moss writes, "The use of watermarks in papers goes back to the thirteenth century in Italy. A watermark is created by attaching a wire design to the screen used for handmade paper. The paper is slightly thinner where the wire sits so that when the completed sheet is held up to the light, the image is visible." The text for this print is a personal prayer to be recited by women when they light the Shabbat candles.The style of lettering is known as the Veiber-Teich font and the image is a typical Eastern European candelabra. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners contributed three works in this exhibition to the Lowe Art Museum by Paul Berger, Gordon Matta-Clark and Luigi Veronesi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

From the rear cover review by the National Post: "The question this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition ourside the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century..." Has marginalia in graphite by previous owner on pages 5, 8, 26, 27, 125 and 142. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a stylized, line drawing of a cat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Timetable is a monumental sculpture conceived and installed by Maya Lin outside the Stanford University Museum of Art. In describing the work, Michel Brenson wrote in the catalogue, "the meaning of Lin's paradoxical response to the question about the nature of time in her work should be clear...within her spaces of indeterminacy, indeed helping to define them as indeterminate, are multiple experiences of time. Lin interrelates the times of water and stone, the time of the substance of the earth, the time with which the planet revolves, and human time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first book contains letters from readers and conventional fiction as well as several self portrait drawings by well known artist and writers. The second volume by Nick McDonell is an account that is illustrted with photographs of a novelist / correspondent 's personal account of time spent in Iraq. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.