Steven Leiber's bookseller's poster/catalog No. 51, released for the 2010 NY Art Book Fair, mimicking the design for Experiments in Art & Technology's "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering" from 1966. Leiber, a Bay Area dealer who championed artists' ephemera, produced famous catalogs that smartly payed homage via appropriation to moments, works or artists in contemporary art history such as Ruscha, Fluxus, Dada, conceptual art and other genres. The back side of the poster lists and documents 105 offerings for the fair (with prices) including works and artists' books/ephemera by Twombly.....
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An oversized tour poster for Tuxedomoon, the pioneering post-punk, new wave (no wave) band that formed in San Francisco in 1977. They signed with The Residents' label Ralph Records and released their first album in 1980. The band also appeared in and is on the soundtrack of the cult NYC film "Downtown 81" starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, which also included cameos by many New York icons such as Debbie Harry, John Lurie and Fab 5 Freddie. Tour dates noted on the poster include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Seattle, Chicago.....
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An oversized, signed and numbered silkscreen poster for the Melvins, Treadmill and Dirty Bird at the Blue Gallery on September 19, 1990. The Blue Gallery was a punk/rock club and art gallery run by Tim Brooks in NW Portland for a few years, circa 1989-1990. Designed and signed by Mike King of Crash Design, numbered 22 in an edition of 100. Printed at Gary Houston's silkscreen studio, Voodoo Catbox, in Portland. Although the concert was in 1990, King designed and printed this special edition poster in 1995.

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The "first-year" issue of this periodical from the loosely organized alternative arts space and group known as MUSEUM, which formed in 1968 in Manhattan, and used a warehouse/loft at 729 Broadway as it's headquarters and exhibition space. The collective began as a group of 8 artists but soon grew to hundreds as no fees or criteria existed to participate or become a member. A 1970 press release (reproduced in the issue) states "MUSEUM is an entirely cooperative organization by and for artists who wish to exhibit, and to speak freely.....
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A folded newsprint pamphlet from the Students for a Democratic Society consisting of two items: a 14" x 22" fold-out poster advertising their 1972 Convention Against Racism held at Harvard University, plus a folded sheet with a registration form for the convention to be mailed back to the SDS. Calling itself on the pamphlet a "militant, nation-wide student organization," the SDS organized against racism, for worker's right and in opposition to the Vietnam War. It grew to over 300 campus chapters but eventually dissolved in 1974, becoming the Committee Against.....
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An original "photo genetics" artwork on found paper by Melvin Edward Nelson. Working primarily in the middle of the night with handmade pigments and watercolors gathered from his land in Colton Oregon, Melvin Edward Nelson (1908-1992) often signed his work "M.E.N.," which also stood for "Mighty Eternal Nation." He is said to have watched UFOs land on his property and Nelson would collect the earth and rocks from the area of the landings, which he believed to be imbued with special or cosmic powers. He would crush the rocks and minerals to.....
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An original "photo genetics" artwork by Melvin Edward Nelson. Working primarily in the middle of the night with handmade pigments and watercolors gathered from his land in Colton Oregon, Melvin Edward Nelson (1908-1992) often signed his work "M.E.N.," which also stood for "Mighty Eternal Nation." He is said to have watched UFOs land on his property and Nelson would collect the earth and rocks from the area of the landings, which he believed to be imbued with special or cosmic powers. He would crush the rocks and minerals to make his own.....
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A signed and titled work, "The Whirling World," by Melvin Edward Nelson of Colton, Oregon. Working primarily in the middle of the night with handmade pigments and watercolors gathered from his land, Melvin Edward Nelson (1908-1992) often signed his work "M.E.N.," which also stood for "Mighty Eternal Nation." He is said to have watched UFOs land on his property and Nelson would collect the earth and rocks from the area of the landings, which he believed to be imbued with special or cosmic powers. He would crush the rocks and minerals to.....
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The signed and numbered special edition of "Life Size" by Sam Falls. No. 23 of 25 copies bound in hand-dyed fabric cut from original artworks. Life Size presents full-page photographs of the Los Angeles-based artist's process in making textile and dyed works, paintings and sculpture through his investigations into the natural process and contrasting the organic with the man made. The trade edition of "Life Size" is also out of print.

Condition: Fine, Like New.
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A collection of 49 issues (in 35 publications) of the influential film journal Film Culture, known for exploring avant-garde cinema in depth. The magazine was founded and edited by Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), also the founder of the Anthology Film Archives and considered to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Fluxus artist George Maciunas did the layout for select issues, such as Nos. 15 to 23 and No. 30 in this collection. A total of 79 issues of Film Culture were published between 1954 and 1996. A special issue #80 on Barbara Rubin.....
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An original Keith Haring "Free South Africa" square button from 1988 with the image of a chained man fighting back against his oppressor. Possibly sold at to the Pop Shop store that Haring opened in 1986 at 292 Lafayette in the Soho neighborhood of New York. With "© Keith Haring 1988" printed on the back of the button.

Condition: Fine / Like New.
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The second printing (with light blue endpapers) of Lenore Kandel's book of four erotic (some might say pornographic) poems that was censored when it first was released, with copies confiscated by the police from City Lights Books in SF. Kandel was also one of the speakers at the famous Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park during 1967's "Summer of Love"

Condition: Fine.
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An early Portland punk flyer from 1978 featuring The Wipers and King Bee, with a plea on the poster to help save/pay the rent at the short-lived New Arts Center, which hosted punk shows in Portland for only about two months.

Condition: Near Fine, light toning to paper.
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