Photos By Gail
A kitsch klatch of thrift shop yarn dolls and stuffed animals get the yearbook photo treatment alongside the genuine article (featuring the artist himself) in Mike Kelley’s lineup of misfit mug shots entitled Ah . . . Youth! (1991). The artist’s self-charicature compares his apathetic, acne-scarred, adolescent self to the cuddly but creepy castoffs in a fractured fairytale about youth.
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“I stole my father’s Death Star plans. It was all lasers, lightsabers, droids and The Force. Within a week he destroyed my planet and hit the road.”
This fun Sonic Youth Album Cover Parody / Star Wars Mash Up design by Cubik is available on a T-Shirt just $19.95 and on an assortment of other shirts, sweatshirts and Hoodies at This Link!
Art By Kim Gordon, Photos By Gail
Most people know the name Kim Gordon for her prominence in the music industry as the vocalist and guitarist for Sonic Youth, but Gordon is also an accomplished artist and filmmaker, having graduated from LA’s Otis College of Art and Design in the 1970s. Gordon is currently exhibiting a collection of her Paintings, Sculptures, Installation, Performance Art Documentation and Films in a show called Design Office with Kim Gordon – Since 1980, at White Columns Gallery in downtown Manhattan.
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CBGB (Mixing Board and Bench)
CBGB music club saw it all – the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth and so many more. The layers of flyers and playbills, graffiti, stickers and spilt beer seemingly coating the club’s every surface were as dense and sticky as the history of the place. Joe Holmes’ photos put the viewer right into the space – looking into the mixing board area, one can’t help but wonder at the cacophony of sounds that bounced off these heavily plastered walls. Continue reading More Historic Photos of CBGBs Rock Club Interior by Joseph O. Holmes