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United Mutations Presents 'Un' Fine Arts Fest [poster][Los Angeles]: np, [1967]. Offset. 39 x 27 ¼ in. unframed. Closed tears on top/bottom, not obscuring image. Minor wear with light discoloration.Promotional poster for a May 1967 event hosted by the United Mutations, Frank Zappa’s official fan club. It advertises ‘Un’ Fine Arts Fest, featuring a “jam session, sculpture, group painting, food, electric punch”Rare Zappa oddity.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

United Mutations Presents 'Un' Fine Arts Fest

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Two Evenings of John Cage&nbsp;New York: The Kitchen, [1962]. Offset. 11 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. A very clean copy, with light bumping two corners.&nbsp;A poster promoting two evening concerts of John Cage at the Kitchen in 1962, as he was approaching world-wide recognition.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Two Evenings of John Cage at The Kitchen

Beastie Boys with Special Guest Fishbone[Portland, OR]: Starry Night, 1986. Offset. 17 x 11 in. Two (&lt; 1/2 in.) open tears on body, and four closed tears from stapling.Poster promoting a Beastie Boys show at Starry Night in Portland, Oregon, in January of 1987.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Beastie Boys — 1986 concert poster

Pat OleszkoPat Oleszko: All the World’s a StoogeNew York: The Kitchen, 1979. Offset. 24 x 18 in. Clean example; minor creasing, short closed tear to left edge, tiny nick at upper edge, minor toning at edges.Black-and-white promotional poster for the still-active New York-based performance artist Pat Oleszko’s “All the World’s a Stooge,” with a photograph of Oleszko by Nell Selkirk.The title of the performance came from a line Oleszko has repeatedly used, derived from what she describes as the inception of her costume practice. She had wanted to make sculptures, but her attempts kept collapsing, and as she was “[t]oo humiliated to withstand the derision of [her] mostly male cohorts,” she began instead to sew and hang sculptures on herself. In a 2024 interview with The Kitchen she said, “I was six feet tall and could carry anything I could make and—not fall over. At that moment, my art walked out the door and I began using all the world as a stooge. Everything became a platform.”Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Pat Oleszko — All The World's A Stooge

Walasse TingGalerie Birch exhibition posterCopenhagen: Galerie Birch, 1960. Stone lithograph. 35 x 25 1/4 in.Poster from artist Walasse Ting’s first exhibition at Galerie Birch, the oldest contemporary art gallery in Copenhagen.After moving to Paris in the early 1950s, Walasse Ting befriended several members of the avant-garde art movement COBRA, including Pierre Alechinsky and Asger Jorn—the work depicted on the poster here bears a remarkable similarity to his work. Although not a COBRA artist himself, Ting incorporated the group’s emphasis on spontaneity into his paintings. Alechinsky introduced Ting to gallerist Børge Birch of Galerie Birch in Copenhagen and recommended he mount an exhibition of the artist’s work, which opened on December 6, 1960. This show was the first of many exhibitions Ting would go on to present at Galerie Birch throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.Founded in Copenhagen in 1946, Galerie Birch is the city’s oldest contemporary art gallery and is regarded as the leading European dealer of COBRA artists and their associates. The gallery is largely responsible for maintaining COBRA’s legacy as one of the major mid-century avant-garde movements.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Walasse Ting — Galerie Birch

John Brockman, Judy SternHead[Los Angeles]: np, [1968]. Silk screen on aluminized mylar. 39 x 25 in. unframed. Beautiful condition with minor creasing throughout, though this is a typical quality of mylar.Promotional poster for the 1968 psychedelic comedy film “Head” starring the Monkees and produced by Jack Nicholson with Bob Rafelson. The poster features the face of John Brockman, who did PR for the film but was not featured on screen.The image of Brockman’s face comes from a one-minute video he shot at 16fps. Brockman ran the video on a TV, photographed the screen, then cropped the image. Thus, the image isn’t of Brockman’s head, but rather of a cropped television set.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Head

EWK [Ewert Karlsson]Eje Thelin Group at Moderna Museet[Stockholm]: Moderna Museet, [1976]. Offset. 39 ¼ x 27 ½ in. Several small closed tears at edges, some repaired with tape on verso.Poster for a performance by Swedish free jazz ensemble the Eje Thelin Group at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet on June 23, 1976. This live performance was recorded and released as a record the following year.This poster was designed by Swedish illustrator and political cartoonist, Ewert Karlsson.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

EWK [Ewert Karlsson] — Eje Thelin Group at Moderna Museet

The Fruit of the Original SinAlain GoffinBelgium: Les Disques du Crepuscule, 1981. Offset on glossy paper. 23 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. Clean example, with light bumping to edges.Les Disques du Crespuscule is a Belgian record company that was closely associated with Factory Records and Le Plan K, the Belgian Theatre troupe and venue which hosted multimedia shows with Joy Division and William Burroughs, among others. The compilation double LP this poster advertises, The Fruit of Original Sin, subtitled "A musical extravaganza waged somewhere in your mind," features work by Viriginia Astley, W.S. Burroughs, DNA, Marguerite Duras, The Durutti Column, Peter Gordon, Arthur Russell, and more.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

The Fruit of the Original Sin

All the Meat You Can Eat - A Show of Photographs Selected by Stephen Shore poster [addressed and postmarked to Jonas Mekas]New York: The 98 Greene Street Loft, 1971. Offset with holograph amendment, and postage and stamp on verso, addressed in holograph to "Mr. Jonas Mekas / 222 W. 23rd St. / New York, N.Y." Clean example; with lines from folding into mailer, light bumping to edges, and a piece of tape on the reverse side of the top edge from its use as a mailer.Poster promoting the opening of "All The Meat You Can Eat," a show of photographs selected by Stephen Shore at the 98 Greene Street Loft.Stephen Shore is a prodigious photographer who emerged in the 1970s as one of the major exponents of color photography, shooting bleak yet lyrical scenes of the North American landscape. Documenting everyday settings and objects, from hotel swimming pools and televisions to parking lots, gas stations, and deserted roads, Shore exhibited an ability to transform commonplace surroundings into compelling works of art, working with a subject matter similar to Walker Evans.This is a humorous document of Stephen Shore's early research in photography. For his 2017 exhibition at MoMA, he wrote that he "was interested in the vernacular uses of photography and had been collecting post cards and police photographs and pornography and snap shots. I was just fascinated by how photography was used [...] in the meaning conveyed by how it was used—that we see a snapshot differently than we see an art photograph, that we see an advertisement differently than we see a postcard. And the idea behind this show was to juxtapose a huge range of work coming from different places."Most of the postcards and snapshots were in color, which led him to begin examining color photography, later so integral to his innovations in photography.An extraordinary document of an artist's development.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

United Mutations Presents 'Un' Fine Arts Fest

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