Daily Travels: Vinyl Finds

A few goodies I picked up at the WFMU Record Fair at the Park Avenue Armoury, May 31, 2014.

Daily Travels: Park Avenue Armoury

WFMU Record Fair 5.31.14

Kim Gordon brings the painted noise

Kim Gordon, of Sonic Youth, will be having an exhibition of her artwork at the John McWhinnie Gallery from April 8 thru May 8. There's an opening on April 8 from 6-8 PM, and if you've never been to a show at McWhinnie before I'd suggest checking it out. They do things right. Visit their website for more information.

"John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is very pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Kim Gordon: The Noise Paintings. The show will open with a reception on April 8th and run through May 8th, 2010. Featuring a series of works on paper the show presents Gordon's recent explorations using paint, lyrics, and personal catch phrases to create a collision of the verbal and the visual, and the discovery of something quite other. In partnership with Ecstatic Peace Library, JMc & GHB Editions will introduce a special edition of a new publication, Kim Gordon, The Noise Paintings. Drawn from a full edition of just 200, the special edition will comprise 26 lettered copies enclosed in a custom cloth box with an original painting and recording laid in."

Friday Ephemera - McWhinnie Edition

Images from the recent show at John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Booksellers Gallery, What I've Been Hoarding; An Accumulation of Rock and Literary Decadence: 1965 - 85.

What I've Been Hoarding

Here's something most of us music geeks can relate to - the next event at the John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller gallery:

What I've Been Hoarding; An Accumulation of Rock and Literary Decadence: 1965 - 85. It starts tonight and runs through May 2 at 50 1/2 East 64th Street, New York, New York 10065.

Should be interesting for those of us into the ephemera scene: "John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Booksellers is very pleased to announce their new exhibition, “What I’ve Been Hoarding; An Accumulation of Rock and Literary Decadence; 1965 – 85”. The show will run from April 2nd to May 2nd, 2009.

Spanning three decades the show presents an unruly collection of posters, drawings, photographs, flyers, magazines, and other printed ephemera as an insight into visual innovation amongst the cultural fringe during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Though the term fringe could be widely applied to the items displayed here, the look each fostered left a powerful legacy of influence on evolving mainstream design aesthetics in the U.S. The “edge”, self-defined and what passed for it in years gone by, is brought into perspective with this eclectic and appropriately undisciplined collection.

An FBI Wanted poster for Angela Davis in the 60’s; a sprawling photostat announcement for Killing Joke from the 80’s; a hand-painted design for a Lounge Lizards performance night; a rake of black and white girly-mag prints of the 60’s; these are the cultural gems and detritus left by musicians, agitators, provocateurs, and posers – or history-makers if you will. A convergence of the profane and the sacred is here available for all to see, amongst which the spector of History smiles through, coyly withholding the punchline on all enterprises."

If I had a gallery, I would probably do the same thing.