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Destroy All Monsters Magazine Detroit area book launch Facsimile Edition Released by Primary Information
A Detroit launch for the Destroy All Monsters Magazine (book) is scheduled for Saturday June 11th 8-10 PM at Public Pool, 3309 Caniff in Hamtramck. A talk between local art critic Vincent Carducci and DAM member Cary Loren will begin at 8:30 PM, a Q & A will follow. Primary Information: http://primaryinformation.org/index.php?/upcoming/destroy-all-monsters/ New York book launch at MoMA/PS1: http://www.artbook.com/blog-at-first-sight-d-a-m.html
Destroy All Monsters was an Detroit-area band and collective that was formed in 1973. Its initial members were Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters were art students and musicians who used performance art tactics to create noise music that evolved out of influences like Sun Ra, Nico, horror movie soundtracks and local bands like MC5 and The Stooges. The band later took on new members and briefly reunited in the 90s. Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. Destroy All Monsters Magazine functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While Destroy All Monsters has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted. Destroy All Monsters Magazine is available directly through Primary Information’s website www.primaryinformation.org and is distributed through Distributed Art Publishers worldwide. For further information or to order Destroy All Monsters Magazine, please contact Primary Information at info@primaryinformation.org Primary Information is a 501(c)3 organization. The organization receives generous support through grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Stichting Egress Foundation, the Buddy Taub Foundation, and individuals worldwide. |
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The first scheduled event to coincide with the publication of BLACK EYE 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension, will be a companion exhibition of works by ten of the book’s contributors. However, the work included in MOROSE DELECTATION will not be drawn from that in BLACK EYE, but will be work that has been newly-created for the exhibition as well as older, unpublished works. The following is the press release: MOROSE DELECTATION An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Occasioned by the Release of BLACK EYE 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension A New Comics Anthology of Black and Absurdist Humor by 41 International Artists and Writers, Edited by Ryan Standfest and Published by Rotland Press + Comic Works, Detroit, Michigan. WHERE: Book Beat Bookstore & Gallery, 26010 Greenfield Road / Oak Park, MI / 48237-1050 / (248) 968-1190 WHEN: JUNE 5th – AUGUST 5th, 2011; OPENING EVENT with discussion and signing on June 5th, from 3 to 5 PM. “Its good to know that comics are still being confiscated today” – Chris Ware The exhibition will include work by: Max Clotfelter (Seattle, Washington) Andy Gabrysiak (Plymouth, Michigan) Ian Huebert (San Francisco, California) Kaz (Hollywood, California) James Moore (Brooklyn, New York) Tom Neely (Los Angeles, California) Paul Nudd (Chicago, Illinois) Onsmith (Chicago, Illinois) David Paleo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Stephen Schudlich (Dearborn, Michigan) Curated by Cary Loren and Ryan Standfest This exhibition, held at the Book Beat Gallery, showcases works on paper by ten artists who are contributors to the comics anthology BLACK EYE No. 1. The exhibition is meant to be a companion to the anthology, and the work presented here reflects a continuation of the sensibility presented in the pages of BLACK EYE, namely a focus on black and absurdist humor that sits uneasily on the border between what is funny and what is not. The exhibition will have an OPENING EVENT ON SUNDAY, JUNE 5th, from 3 to 5pm, during which there will be a discussion concerning BLACK EYE and the nature of black humor, as well as a signing with some of the contributing artists present. A limited edition letterpress print by the artists Onsmith & Nudd will be available for purchase and for signing, along with copies of BLACK EYE. Further information about BLACK EYE can be found at the Rotland Press + Comic Works site: http://rotlandpress.wordpress.com/ Black Eye was the subject of international controversy recently after the book was confiscated by Canadian border agents. Copies of the collection were being taken to a comics convention in Canada and agents considered it obscene material. Here is a link to the incident on the Comics Journal website. |
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We are unable to reach everyone who would appreciate these events. If you know anyone who would be interested, please forward this information on to them. Thank you for your continued support Two-time Caldecott Award winning author/illustrator and Michigan native Chris Van Allsburg will be visiting the Book Beat on Wednesday, April 6 from 3-6 p.m. This is a rare chance to meet one of the truly great children’s book illustrators and a master storyteller. Van Allsburg won the Caldecott Medal for the Polar Express and Jumanji and a Caldecott Honor Award for his first book The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children’s literature. He grew up in Grand Rapids, MI and currently lives in Rhode Island. Van Allsburg’s latest creation, Queen of the Falls, tells the thrilling true story of Ms. Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to go over the Niagara Falls. Taylor was a 62-year-old retired charm school instructor living in Bay City. MI when she undertook the scheme for profit and fame, though both managed to elude her. This is Van Allsburg’s first work of non-fiction, but the strange tal “There is something decidedly fantastic and not quite real about Niagara Falls, about Annie’s adventure, and about the stories that can unfold when imagination, determination, and foolhardiness combine to set humans off in pursuit of their goals.” Review from FUSE #8 This is truly a special opportunity to meet Van Allsburg in a small, personal setting, and a great chance to get signed copies of his wonderful books. His books will be available for sale, including Queen of the Falls, a great new addition to his work. 3-6 p.m, Wednesday, April 6 on 2011 at the Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Rd, Oak Park, MI 48237. For more information call 248-968-1190. |
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Join us at Book Beat on Sunday, March 6th at 2:00 PM for a special talk and book-signing with Detroit area artist, sculptor, educator and author David Barr. This will be a rare chance to meet and discuss art making, writing and the life work of this engaging and creative spirit. The Book Beat is located at 26010 Greenfield in Oak Park. Please call 248-968-1190 for more information.
David has recently published several new books and will be presenting; SIEVE, a new collection of essays about art and artists that include David Barr’s thoughts on teaching art, making art, the role of public art, and his reminiscence of many Detroit area artists including; Jim Pallas, Bob Caskey, Susan Hauptman, Diane Carr and others. David has also included reviews of some of his favorite inspiring artworks along with artist quotations and lessons learned along life’s road. SIEVE is a book that is sure to please anyone interested in the arts, and is a wonderful insight into one of our own highly original thinkers, educators and creators. “The Sieve seemed to signal new life as well as isolate its raw components. Time is a sieve. It filters and blends memories. Like art.” -David Barr from SIEVE David Barr has also published a collection of “literary fragments” titled TIME IS MY WINDOW. it is a collection of four Michigan writer/artists; (Robert Caskey, Veronica Sanitate, Rick Solomon, David Barr) and the Italian author/artist Christiano Mazzani. A DVD is included with the book with a short film by Paul Mangenello, an interpretation of one of the stories “Old Man By the Pond”. At his last reading at Book Beat one year ago, David presented his book Amercordo: (I Remember) American Style , a collection of recollections and observations from the mid-century American Midwest to Tuscany, the mid-west of Italy.
David has recently been completing work on several books that collect his artistic and personal history. His large format art book Crossing Lines was published in 2009. It carries the reader to some of the world’s most intriguing, mysterious and remote locations. Filled with 180 color and black and white illustrations, the book narrates the various projects David Barr has been involved with over the past thirty years. His work on the Four Corners Project, begun in 1976, spanned a full decade with installations in Greenland, Africa, Irian Jaya and Easter Island. Other geo-structurist works include Arctic Arc in Wales, Alaska, and Naukan, Russia, and Sunsweep on the US/Canada border at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, in Northwest Angle, Minnesota, and Point Roberts, Washington. Here, in his home state, David’s works can be seen at such locations as Chrysler World Headquarters (Revolution), Flint’s Bishop Airport, (Soaring), Detroit Zoo (Source), State of Michigan Historical Museum (Polaris Ring) and Meadowbrook Festival Grounds (Sunset Cube). In 1988 David Barr was awarded the Governor’s Michigan Artist Award. In his acceptance speech he told the audience of his desire to create a Michigan Art Park – a place where artists could tell the story of our state in and through the fundamental materials of nature. That dream has become a reality in 1995 with the Michigan Legacy Art Park , located within the boundaries of Crystal Mountain on M-115 between Cadillac and Benzonia near Thompsonville. David Barr is a graduate of Wayne State University and recipient of the WSU Distinguished Alumni Award. He served on the faculty of Macomb Community College and has received awards, including citations from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and Citizens Concerned for the Arts in Michigan. His work can also be seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Flint Institute of Arts, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tel Aviv Museum and the University of Michigan. |
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Chris Tysh Book Signing Sun. Feb 6th
“The shining star of Night Scales, though, is author Chris Tysh. It was Tysh’s own mother who survived the Holocaust by passing for Catholic and being exiled to Paris, where her daughter was raised. The author’s poetic meditation not only confronts survival in a visceral sense, but also the emotional implications of having to survive, weighing its value and its consequences in a manner that hasn’t been reached since Elie Wiesel’s harrowing recollection. Through a series of jarring poetic scenes, Tysh comments on the weight that gets passed on to the family who made such radical sacrifices, showing us that though scars fade, they span generations and never really disappear.” -Metro Times Review of Night Scales Chris Tysh has been on the faculty of the English department at Wayne State University, Detroit since 1989, where she teaches creative writing and women’s studies. She has authored several poetry collections and completed a full screenplay based on a novel of Georges Bataille. Her books include Secrets of Elegance, Porn?, Coat of Arms, In the Name, Continuity Girl and Cleavage. Recently, her play, Night Scales, A Fable for Klara K, was produced at the Wayne State University Studio Theatre under the direction of Aku Kadogo. She has given numerous readings, both here and abroad. She is a recipient of a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Book Beat is located at 26010 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park, MI 48237. Please contact us (248) 968-1190 if you have any questions or would like to reserve a book for this event. Author Anna-Lisa Cox at Southfield Library Thurs., Feb 10th
Book Beat will be selling books for this event. Please contact Book Beat (248) 968-1190 if you have any questions regarding this event or you would like to reserve a copy to be signed. “In the nineteenth century, when much of the nation was solidifying racial discrimination and barriers between the races and to achievement for former slaves, the small town of Covert, Michigan, was embarking on a bold social order–equality among the races. Historian Cox details the founding families–black and white–who established Covert in 1860 as a mixed-race community that defied the social conventions of the time, electing blacks to powerful political positions and providing a haven for economic development for achievers of all races. Drawing on historical documents from newspaper accounts to personal diaries and town records, Cox portrays the determined individuals who helped one another in hard times, built schools for all to attend, encouraged church membership for all, and in myriad ways took a different path than that of a nation in the grip of Jim Crow and lynchings.” -ALA review Signed Copies of Amos Mcgee back in stock!We’re happy to have signed copies of this year’s Caldecott-winning title “Amos McGee Has A Sick Day” back in stock. They are signed by both Illustrator Erin E. Stead and Author Philip C. Stead. Book Beat is located at 26010 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park, MI 48237. Please call us at (248) 968-1190 if you would like to reserve a copy or have any questions. 2011 ALA Award Winners now in stock!Congratulations t Newberry and Caldecott Award-winners- as well as Honor titles- are now in stock, including author Clare Vanderpool’s Newberry award-winning debut novel, Moon Over Manifest. Special congratulations to Michigan illustrator Erin E. Stead and her husband, author Philip C. Stead, on their 2011 Caldecott Award-winning book A Sick Day for Amos Mcgee. Some of you may recall meeting Philip and Erin in 2009 when we hosted a signing at the Oak Park Public Library for Philip’s first book Creamed Tuna Fish & Peas on Toast. We are very happy for them and look forward to their future efforts. Reading Group Selection for February
Copies of The Tanners are now in stock at Book Beat and are discounted 15%. “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs. “The incredible shrinking writer is a major twentieth-century prose artist who…can be placed in that comic tradition [that] runs from Gogol through Kafka and down to José Saramago . . . . When Walser met Lenin in Zurich during the war, all he had to say was ‘So you, too, like fruitcake?’ . . . It is remarkable to see what variety and richness what easiness and charm, what winsome inanities and philosophical depths he could pack into half a page.” Author Heather Sellers at the Baldwin Library, Wed. Feb. 16th
“You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know does not read like any memoir you know…Unless I’ve got prose blindness, Sellers is an ace…Her calm, glass-half- full-to-overflowing worldview could, in another writer’s hands, veer towards treacle, but she pulls it off beautifully. I predict exciting things for her: critical acclaim, hearty sales, and, perhaps best of all, long lines of strangers at every reading.” Book Beat will be selling books for this event. If you have any questions or would like to reserve a copy to be signed, contact Book Beat at (248) 968-1190. |
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Detroit Poet and Playwright Chris Tysh will be signing and reading from her latest work Night Scales on Sunday, February 6th at 2pm.
Author Heather Sellers will be reading from and signing her latest book You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know at the
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kiki is a film by Man Ray and Leger done in the 1920s. The film becomes magnifed and repeated into short sections from the film link that filters the you tube video. The music is an impressionist piece by Maurice Ravel. For an even more enhanced experience, try the link; kiki |
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