11th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival presented by Charlotte Moorman held November 16, 1974 at Shea Stadium, Flushing, Queens. Participating artists included Allen Ginsberg, Arman, John Cage, Christo, John Giorno, Allan Kaprow, Beryl Korot, Anne Tardos, Bill Viola, and many, many others. [details]
Issue four of the periodical Semina, edited Wallace Berman. Issue four includes 23 loose inserts with poems Philip Lamantia, Charles Brittin, Ron Loewinsohn, William Blake, William S Burroughs, David Meltzer, W. ... [details]
Oversized poster, designed by Les Levine, published in conjunction with fundraising events held on November 21 and 22, 1969 in support of John Giorno. Poster centers on newspaper clipping of Margaret Mead testifying to senators on the use of marijuana. ... [details]
Inaugural issue of Culture Hero, published by Les Levine and edited by Claudia Dreifus. Contents include: "An Interview with Peter Fonda," by Elizabeth Campbell; "Peter Fonda: Aquarius;" "The Culture Heroine of the Month: Joy Bang," by Claudia Dreifus; "Culture Hero Runs a Contest," featuring full page of photographs of a Claes Oldenburg happening / performance;" "Latimer on Lichtenstein," by D. ... [details]
Two sided postcard / announcement published in conjunction with Harry Smith's Memorial Service held at the Poetry Project, February 9, [1992]. Readings and reminiscences by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, P. ... [details]
A collection of three pieces of ephemera published and distributed by the Youth International Party (Yippie!) in [1968]. Includes: a two-page mimeographed announcement of plans for a "Festival of Life," a protest and free festival to be held in Chicago August 25-30, [1968]; a two-color screenprinted flyer / poster for the [Festival of Life] that reads "Yippie! Chicago Aug 25-30" against a stream of conscious list of words and names of people; and a mimeographed flyer titled "Bags Yippies Can Get Into in Your Hometown" with a bulleted list of ways Yippies could participate in growing the Yippie movement and ways to prepare for the "Festival of Life" in Chicago. [details]
Press release issued by Sanford Beldon of Gold Medal Books announcing the publication of "Anthology of Beat Writing" dated March 29, 1960. Anthology edited by Seymour Krim, with texts by Herbert Gold, Norman Podhoretz, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Barker, Chandler Brossard, Norman Mailer, John Clellon Holmes and others. [details]
Two-color screenprinted flyer / poster published and distributed by the Youth International Party (Yippie!) advertising the [Festival of Life] held in Chicago, August 25 - 30, [1968]. Flyer reads "Yippie! Chicago Aug 25-30" against a stream of conscious list of words and names of people including Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, The Fugs, Pete Seeger, Bread and Puppet Theater, Paul Krassner, Ed Sanders, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Milton Glaser and many others. [details]
Issue 14 of the 'Journal of Radical Shimming' published by the Red76 collective. Texts by Matthew Stadler, Dan S. Wang, Scott Berzofsky, Mike Wolf, Sam Gould, Rich Jensen, Mark Read, Steve Lambert, Abbie Hoffman, Starhawk, David Senior, Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Jessica Garz, Sean Dockray, Malak Helmy, Pop-Up Book Academy, Aja Rose Bond, Alexander Muir, Daniella Aiello, Gabriel Saloman, Lisa MacLoad and Sydney Hart. ... [details]
Issue number three of six issues published between 1958 and 1965. Edited by P.G. Pavia. Essays "A Little Room for Feeling," by Hubert Crehan; "Face Front," by Sidney Geist; "Abstraction in Poetry," by Allen Ginsberg; "Editor of a Hearsay Panel," by Elaine de Kooning; "Thoughts on the Dance," by Merle Marsicano; "Drawing," by Mercedes Matter; "Spontaneity," by George McNeil; "Manifesto-In-Progress III," by P. ... [details]