Silver gelatin black-and-white photograph of Yayoi Kusama's "Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead," staged in the Garden of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on August 24, 1969. Image captures nudes frolicking on and around Aristide Maillol's "The River. ... [details]
Soft-core porn / art periodical designed and edited by Yayoi Kusama. Features cover photograph of Kusama by Minoru Aoki. Contents include: "A Vote For Kusama"; "Nude Happening on Wall Street"; "Mother-in-Law"; "An Original Kusama Creation; Sex"; "Original Kusama Creations"; centerfold titled "All Work and No Play Make. ... [details]
First printing of Yayoi Kusama's 1969 sex and art magazine "Orgy" aka "Organization for Real Groovy Young People." A wonderful late '60s counterculture document published in an age when the artworld and counterculture merged. ... [details]
Issue edited by Yayoi Kusama. Contents include "A Vote for Kusama," by R. Melvin Brandon; "Nude Happening at New School"; "House of Pain"; "My Very First Orgy"; "The Ten Commandments of Love"; nude photographs; "Down with Your Panties," an interview with Kusama by William Williams. [details]
Issue 6 of Yayoi Kusama's periodical "Orgy." Editorial by R. Melvin Brandon. Contents include: "A Guest Editorial by Frank James (Jesse's Brother)" illustrated with a photograph of Kusama; "House of Pain;" "Al & Jim: The Sex Publishers;" "Kusama's friends helping her campaign for park commissioner - a vote for her will hit the bullseye - a happening at fillmore east," a photo essay; and "The World of Kusama," an interview with Yayoi Kusama. ... [details]
Issue 7 of Yayoi Kusama's periodical "Orgy." Editorial by R. Melvin Brandon. Contents include: "House of Pain;" "Al & Jim: The Sex Publishers, Conclusion;" "Between My Legs," by Rachel Greene; "The World of Kusama," by Yayoi Kusama (this issue did not include a column by Kusama but the following statement was printed above a nsfw photograph, not, as mentioned, a Chamberlain in a hotel: "This issue we do not have a column by Yayoi Kusama, as she had, and still is, in Japan. ... [details]
Issue no. 9 of Yayoi Kusama's periodical "Orgy." Edited by R. Melvin Brandon. Contents include: "Editorial," by R. Melvin Brandon; "The Mistress;" "Between My Legs;" and a classifieds section as well as numerous black-and-white photographs. ... [details]
A tabloid sized reprint of Yayoi Kusama's 1969 sex and art 'zine. A wonderful late '60s counterculture document published in an age when the artworld and counterculture merged. [details]
