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{"value"=>"<p>These files house personal Administrative and Financial material, creative output in the form of Artwork and Writings, incoming Letters, an expansive collection of loose Notes, and press clippings. They have been arranged alphabetically by subject.</p> <p>The Administrative and Financial files contain a small amount of legal material from property ownership and leasing, vehicle registration and financing, and Fab 5 Freddy's birth certificate and passport. Included in the Real Estate files is legal, financial, and planning material from the renting, purchase, and renovation of property. Also present are architectural and design plans, city notices, and correspondence with construction and legal firms. There is a small amount of correspondence and other documents unrelated to real estate interspersed in these files.</p> <p>The sketches, drawings, and paintings that comprise the Artwork represent a range of styles and appear to be mostly by Fab 5 Freddy, they date from 1980 to the 1990s. A number of works from 1984 to 1987 are signed and dated. Some of these pieces also have dedications. Recurring themes include disco balls and fruit bowls, and are reminiscent of the work shown at the Fun Gallery in the early 1980s. These pieces are mostly pen and pencil drawings, and paintings in gouache and watercolor. The files contain some works by other artists including a drawing by Francesco Clemente, two portraits of Fab 5 Freddy by B. Guillou, and a small plaster model of a torso.</p> <p>The Family and Friends files contain administrative and legal documents relating to Fab 5 Freddy's private life, family members, and friends. There is a small amount of incoming correspondence, and some photographs. The Jean-Michel Basquiat file contains the order of speakers from Basquiat's memorial service, and the contract of sale of a portrait by him of Fab 5 Freddy. The Subseries also includes candid photographs of family, a polaroid of Freddy on a film set under the Brooklyn Bridge, some slides, and photographs of unidentified individuals. There are a set of travel photographs that do not appear to include Fab 5 Freddy.</p> <p>The Letters, Postcards, and Greeting Cards are all incoming. They include documents from Fashion Moda's benefit exhibition art sale at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, 1985. There is a set of personal letters from the early 1980s that do not appear to be written from or to Fab 5 Freddy.</p> <p>The Notes are a group of loose, unstructured notes and memos with names and phone numbers, lists, appointments, ideas, and casual jottings. There are fragments of prose writing, and ideas and concepts for films and music videos. They were created and collected over a span of decades, reflecting Fab 5 Freddy's day-to-day life, activities, and myriad interactions. The notes are frequently on small scraps of paper composed of receipts, wrappers, menus, envelopes, and other similar items. There are notes in handwriting other than Fab 5 Freddy's. The files are interspersed with letters, invitations, and other ephemera, including the invitation to P. Diddy's birthday party in Morocco, 2002 (the accompanying CD is not present). Approximate dates have been assigned for this material, and it has been arranged chronologically.</p> <p>The Press files contain clippings with newspaper and magazine mentions of Fab 5 Freddy from the 1980s.</p> <p>Examples of Fab 5 Freddy's creative writing pieces are grouped in the Writings Subseries by subject or type of composition.</p>"}