Over the last 15 years, perhaps our greatest joy has been the kindness and support we’ve received from artists. Contemporary Art Daily arose from a desire to know more about artists working now, and the support and encouragement we’ve received from so many of the artists we most admire has been the fuel driving all of our efforts. We’ve used that fuel to create Contemporary Art Library, which gives the public access to nearly 700,000 images, documents, and videos documenting recent art history. Just in the last two weeks, we’ve added a selection of closed/paused spaces whose legacies will live on within our archive, and a comprehensive chronology of the work of the brilliant artist Lin May Saeed as part of Contemporary Art Quarterly.

In that spirit of gratitude for the artists we’ve learned from, we’re honored to announce our new Artist Committee. We’re grateful to have the ongoing advice and support of Richard Aldrich, Darren Bader, Kerstin Brätsch, Michaela Eichwald, Michelle Grabner, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, David Hartt, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, J. Parker Valentine and Amy Yao.

We’re ultimately here because of you! Thank you for being here over the years and learning about artists alongside us. Advertising alone is not enough to cover the costs of doing this important work, so we need your help. In order to maintain this small organization, it’s crucial that we raise $150,000 in this landmark year. Please make a tax-deductible donation here to help us reach our goal.

We’d like to thank everyone, the artists, art spaces, supporters, and friends who have made it possible for our small non-profit organization to survive for so many years. Without your help, we wouldn’t have been able to go 15 years without missing a single day, or creating Contemporary Art Library. We hope to continue to be of service to the international art community.

Contemporary Art Library is proud to announce our Closed/Paused Spaces project, an initiative to collect and preserve the documentation histories of art spaces that have permanently or indefinitely closed or paused. Contemporary Art Library has a special focus on opportunities to preserve corners of art history that are not guaranteed to remain in public view. We’re delighted to offer a group of closed spaces we’ve been gathering and archiving this year including Foxy Production, Oracle, Paradise Garage, Full Haus, 1857, White Flag Projects and Clifton Benevento as well as point you towards spaces we’ve been archiving since the Library’s launch.

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Our goal is not only to gather these lists for their own sake, but also to keep their important histories alive in the context of the individual artists who were active in them. This will be an ongoing project, so if you know of or have access to the archives of an important closed contemporary art space, please contact Nora so we can bring it into the Library.

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We’d like to thank all of the gallerists and artists who took time to hunt in their old hard drives and work with us and bring this material into public view.

With a mixture of pride of loss we release the Contemporary Art Quarterly archive of the late Lin May Saeed. We encourage you to spend some time with her exhibitions, a collection which is both impressive for a young artist and tragic in its brevity. For the first time, we’ve produced an archive documenting an artist that we’ve followed and admired from the beginning of her career, and we hope that you recognize some of the many shows in her archive that were published here on Daily. Our deep gratitude goes out to Jacky Strenz, whose help was invaluable throughout the process of creating this archive.