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- ↑ Obejas, Achy "A Requiem for Chicago's Incubator of Performance Art" Chicago Tribune (23 Feb 1998: 1)
- ↑ Warren, L. 1984. Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago. Chicago. Museum of Contemporary Art.
- ↑ Obejas, Achy "A Requiem for Chicago's Incubator of Performance Art" Chicago Tribune (23 Feb 1998: 1)
- ↑ Artner, Alan G. Muntadas' Installation Fits Current Thinking" Chicago Tribune (27 May 1994: 64)
- ↑ P-Form: performance art news https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/pform
- ↑ Hixson, Kathryn "Randolph Street Gallery" New Art Examiner (Sep 2000: 50-51) v28 n1
- ↑ Obejas, Achy "Randolph Street Gallery Closes, Victim of Rapidly Declining Funds" Chicago Tribune (14 Feb 1998: 5)
- ↑ Hixson, Kathryn "Randolph Street Gallery" New Art Examiner (Sep 2000: 50-51) v28 n1
- ↑ Randolph Street Gallery Archives https://www.saic.edu/academics/libraries-special-collections/john-flaxman-library/special-collections/randolph-street-gallery
- ↑ "Randolph Street Gallery Archives | SAIC Digital Collections". digitalcollections.saic.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
