My peoples. I've been meaning to post something about this all week but haven't had a chance.. last week Mike and I headed down to Durham, NC to Duke University's Nasher Museum for the opening of an absolutely insane exhibit called The Record.
This show is fucking INCREDIBLE. I guarantee that every single one of you would love it.
Basically it is a study of the culture of the vinyl record in the context of contemporary art. It's not just album art, but all kinds of stuff related to the medium, so there's video, sculpture, paintings, music.. everything. 41 artists total, and the show makes a special point of featuring Mingering Mike. 15 of his original albums and a few 45s are displayed beautifully, with the gatefolds standing up so that you can see the front, back and insides. Everything looks awesome. He's shown alongside artists like David Byrne, Jasper Johns, Christian Marclay, Laurie Anderson, William Cordoba, and on and on.. The curator, Trevor Schoonmaker, did an incredible job. Some of you might know him, I think he used to dj in NY a few years ago. He also curated the Fela and Barkley Hendricks exhibits.
Also, the catalog is fucking amazing. Album sized, 216 pages, thick nice paper, and.. Mike shares a spread with Basquiat and another with Barkley Hendricks. Also, there's a cool timeline of the history of the record, and Mike's on there next to Velvet Underground & Nico, Cosmic Slop, Cheap Thrills, and Black Flag. So cool.
I can't do justice to the show in words, so here are a bunch of pictures, beginning with a video I recorded on my phone of one of the Japanese artists playing a record made of ICE. That shit was crazy, about 30 people circled around and watched in complete silence, totally transfixed by it.
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The show will be open through February.. if you're anywhere near there you should make a point of seeing this. On April 15th it travels to Boston, so you can catch it there too. Hopefully it'll get a lot of press and travel elsewhere.
This is on this week's cover of Durham's weekly paper The Independent
(pictures coming soon, gotta reformat 'em)
This show is fucking INCREDIBLE. I guarantee that every single one of you would love it.
Basically it is a study of the culture of the vinyl record in the context of contemporary art. It's not just album art, but all kinds of stuff related to the medium, so there's video, sculpture, paintings, music.. everything. 41 artists total, and the show makes a special point of featuring Mingering Mike. 15 of his original albums and a few 45s are displayed beautifully, with the gatefolds standing up so that you can see the front, back and insides. Everything looks awesome. He's shown alongside artists like David Byrne, Jasper Johns, Christian Marclay, Laurie Anderson, William Cordoba, and on and on.. The curator, Trevor Schoonmaker, did an incredible job. Some of you might know him, I think he used to dj in NY a few years ago. He also curated the Fela and Barkley Hendricks exhibits.
Also, the catalog is fucking amazing. Album sized, 216 pages, thick nice paper, and.. Mike shares a spread with Basquiat and another with Barkley Hendricks. Also, there's a cool timeline of the history of the record, and Mike's on there next to Velvet Underground & Nico, Cosmic Slop, Cheap Thrills, and Black Flag. So cool.
I can't do justice to the show in words, so here are a bunch of pictures, beginning with a video I recorded on my phone of one of the Japanese artists playing a record made of ICE. That shit was crazy, about 30 people circled around and watched in complete silence, totally transfixed by it.
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The show will be open through February.. if you're anywhere near there you should make a point of seeing this. On April 15th it travels to Boston, so you can catch it there too. Hopefully it'll get a lot of press and travel elsewhere.
This is on this week's cover of Durham's weekly paper The Independent
(pictures coming soon, gotta reformat 'em)
I was probably changing a diaper and was like "Uh huh...cool..."
