P.S.1 Courtyard

P.S.1 MoMA in Long Island City is one of my favorite places to see art, second only to the Whitney. Here's evidence that their interests and mine are in alignment.

The courtyard in front of the museum is covered with a canopy supported by wooden poles that look very much like the ones that carry telephone lines. Affixed to these poles are flyers that span a few decades.
This flyer, for the early 80s SoCal punk band the Plugz, was a bit of nostalgia for me. I remember seing those guys back in the day.
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The same can be said for this one for Black Flag.

The contemporary Oneida get the nod from the art world as well. They played P.S.1 on Saturday, September 1st.

Not all of the flyers were for bands and they all seem to have been picked for their hip factor and graphic design.

I should think about how to organize my flyers into an installation so when I get the phone call from a gallery or institution I'll be ready.

Buy Fair Trade Coffee

While walking up 6th Avenue near West 4th Street, I passed through a swarm of elementary school aged kids handing out this flyer promoting fair trade coffee. The flyer is clearly designed by kids and they looked like a class group. I wondered if their teacher had put them up to this.


It reminded me me of when I was about to graduate from elementary school and all of the 6th grade classes were to perform at a culmination ceremony. This was the early 70s and our teacher had us singing hippy anthems like "Blowing in the Wind" and "If I Had a Hammer".

I knew that there was something wrong with this attempt to indoctrinate me with a left-wing political agenda. I was a punk rock kid before I even knew what punk rock was. My family left for our summer vacation before the ceremony happened so I didn't have to participate.