Free Paper Show Turns Pulp Into Sculpture Through Nov 28

110 handmade paper works by Kentridge, Ligon and Oka Doner fill the Grolier Club ground floor, with the tools behind them.

Free entry, sign in at the desk.

📄 Fifty Years of Wet Pulp

Dieu Donné has spent fifty years teaching artists to make paper and then to push it past the page. The ground floor show gathers more than 110 pieces from Susan Gosin and the mill archive, and the wall labels name each technique, from line and chiaroscuro watermarking to pulp painting, stenciling and cast pulp that stands off the wall as sculpture. Michele Oka Doner, William Kentridge, Glenn Ligon and Richard Tuttle are all here. Videos show the artists at the vat, with the papermaking tools laid out beside the screen. The show runs September 8 to November 28, 2026, and it is the club's 1,000th exhibition. The Henry Wessel photography show upstairs runs through November 14. Free, Monday to Saturday, 10 to 5, closed Sundays, sign in at the front desk.


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