1993 Newman began a collaboration with conceptual artist Lowell Darling on a project called Hollywood Archaeology. They began making Cibachrome prints of discarded movie film found by Darling in the streets and dumpsters of Hollywood in the early '70s. More recently the project has expanded and found a home on the World Wide Web, under the sponsorship of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Film and television production In his capacity as a film and television producer, Newman worked with KQED-TV on production of the Dilexi Series, featuring twelve original TV programs by artists including Terry Riley, Arlo Acton, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Nelson, Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, The Living Theater, Philip Makanna, Robert Frank, Edwin Schlossberg, Walter De Maria, and Kenneth Dewey. From 1971 to 1974 he produced two feature films, Phil Makanna's Shoot the Whale and Space Is the Place, featuring jazz bandleader Sun Ra. In 1976 he produced a video documentary on Philippine psychic surgery, Miracles and Metaphors. Arts Projects from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000-2021 In 2017 Newman began collaborating with curator and art historian Laura Whitcomb in a series of projects documenting his career in the arts. In November 2021 Whitcomb authored and published a book titled DILEXI: a Gallery & Beyond. It covers the entire history of Dilexi Gallery and other projects, including the Dilexi TV series of artist commissions, films Newman produced, including Shoot the Whale and Space is the Place, his documentary In Between the Notes on the Indian classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, and the new music festival Other Minds, which Newman co-founded with Charles Amirkhanian. References External links Hollywood Archaeology Other Minds Archives of American Art Oral history interview with James Newman, 1974 May 13 Living people 1933 births American art collectors American film producers American television producers American jazz musicians Businesspeople from Omaha, Nebraska Jazz musicians from Nebraska