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Shortly after Storefront for Art and Architecture was founded in 1982, director Kyong Park began circulating a regular 'newsletter' among the gallery's friends and followers in New York City. Sent by mail to a list of up to 3,000 people, this news-sheet/poster served to inform New Yorkers on upcoming exhibitions, events and programs in the gallery; it also served as a reader or exhibition guide of sorts, offering critical contextualizations to the exhibitions on display at Storefront. In the mid-Eighties, the newsletters acquired an enduring format: poster-size sheets of double-sided monochrome newsprint, bearing images and texts related to each exhibition in the gallery. Each show in the gallery's history had its own newsprint, and the tradition continues to this day. Over time, the archive of Storefront's Newsprints grew to become the most complete historical documentation of the gallery's programs since its earliest days. 'Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009' is comprised of reproductions of over 154 newsletters, many of which contain otherwise unpublished texts by artists, architects and theorists such as Vito Acconci, Lebbeus Woods, Michael Sorkin, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Webb and Eyal Weizman, among others. Additional content includes an in-depth interview by current director Joseph Grima with Kyong Park on the origins and history of the Newsprints project, an index of other Storefront publications and readers, numerous unpublished texts and essays, and a conversation with former director Sarah Herda.