by Erika Knowles on January 21, 2014
in 20th-Century,Art,Contemporary Art,Fashion,Film,Graphic Design,Music,Photography,Uncategorized,United States
Collection of Invitations, Programs, Flyers, Posters, Broadsides and other Ephemeral Items pertaining to the Palladium nightclub, June 1985 – May 1987. ca. 170 items ranging from single sheet to folding invitations, pop ups, and physical objects, executed in print processes including letterpress, stencil, silk screen, and off-set lithography, most in vibrant color. Items ranging in size from approx. 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″ to 23″ x 28″, loose as originally issued. N.p. (New York) 1985-1987. (47729)
Steve Rubell is said to have declared, “Artists are the rock stars of the 80s.” The notorious nightclub owner and his business partner Ian Schrager ran Studio 54 before their arrest and incarceration for tax evasion in 1980. In May 1985 they opened the Palladium nightclub, designed as a celebration of this unprecedented alliance between art and pop culture. [click to continue…]
Tagged as:
1980s,
Basquiat,
club culture,
Guerilla Girls,
Ian Schrager,
Jenny Holzer,
Keith Haring,
Kenny Scharf,
Michael Alig,
New York,
Palladium,
Steve Rubell,
Warhol
Teruhiko Yumura, et al.-. Shinjuku Playmap. Nos. 1 (July 1969) through 30 (December 1971) (all published in the first series). 8vo. Wrpps., covers illustrated by Teruhiko Yumura (also known as King Terry and Terry Johnson). Tokyo 1969-1971. [46471]
What power is this, indeed?
The global tidal wave of youth culture rebellion and experimentation of the late 1960s and early 1970s did not bypass Tokyo. Shinjuku ward—home to the city’s municipal government and its busiest commuter rail center—was the local substation through which powerful new currents in music, fashion and visual art flowed in and out of Japan.
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Tagged as:
Graphic design,
Heikichi Harata,
Illustration,
Japan,
King Terry,
Say! Young,
Shinjuku Playmap,
Shinobu Ishimaru,
Tokyo,
Underground
(Fabric weaving manuscript).- Felix, M. & J. Mercier. Cahier de Théorie 4e Année 3e. N.p. (Lyon?) n.d. (circa 1895). [44915]
Though we know little about the person who composed it (“J. Mercier,” seemingly a student in the 4th-year class of one “Professeur M. Felix”), Cahier de Théorie 4e Année 3e offers a rich window into the world of industrial fabric design in turn-of-the-century Lyon—once a world capital of silk production.
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Tagged as:
Damask,
Lyon,
Silk,
Textiles
Steve Rubell is said to have declared, “Artists are the rock stars of the 80s.” The notorious nightclub owner and his business partner Ian Schrager ran Studio 54 before their arrest and incarceration for tax evasion in 1980. In May 1985 they opened the Palladium nightclub, designed as a celebration of this unprecedented alliance between art and pop culture. [click to continue…]
