12 Facts About Clive Phillpot

Clive Phillpot is a former librarian at the Chelsea School of Art in London, and served as the Director of the Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1977 to 1994.

Clive Phillpot was an active supporter of the New York art world during the 1980s.

Clive Phillpot contributed to artist exhibition catalogues, conducted artist interviews, wrote essays on artists, and contributed a column titled Feedback to the art magazine Studio International.

Clive Phillpot served on the boards of Center for Book Arts, Franklin Furnace Archive, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Clive Phillpot defines artists' books as a "book of which an artist is the author" in an issue of Art Documentation.

In 1989, Clive Phillpot served as the president of the Art Library Societies of North America.

Clive Phillpot serves on the editorial board of Art Documentation, a peer-reviewed journal by the Art Libraries Society of North America and the University of Chicago Press.

Clive Phillpot assesses the art library as an institution benefitting the public in terms of open accessibility to the public, encouragement of visual inspiration, and advocacy for visual nourishment and education.

Clive Phillpot maintained open correspondences and direct interactions with artists and publishers to acquire work for the collection.

In 2009, Clive Phillpot was part of a group of curators that organized VOIDS: A Retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France.

Clive Phillpot is considered to be a leading scholar on the work of mail artist and collagist, Ray Johnson.

In 2008, Clive Phillpot published a book titled Ray Johnson on Flop Art: Fragments from Conversations.