The Concern reading library for 181 exhibit at Locust Projects

181, artist collective (Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes) has an exhibit at Locust Projects in Miami, FL called THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION). The Concern Newsstand has been invited to curate a reading library display in conjunction with the exhibition. It can be viewed there from February 19- April 9, 2022.

The collective’s exhibition will activate a series of circumstantial compositions considering time-based obstruction, including: the ancient Mud Lake Canal, Reserve-Capacity wave maneuvers, attempts to spot the endangered snail kite, shadow-telling trails from Mabel Cody, and other anomalous successions.

As a collective the 181 is interested in composing situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. Artists, a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a former linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice they view with distress.

As far as they can tell, the 181 has been working together since 2007 when they found themselves gathered by the Pacific Ocean with a glim glam golden Q, roughly 10 yards of transparent lavender vinyl, and a broken hold on the sea’s reflection. 

Exhibition Catalogues Collection- Elsa Longhauser

Grateful & fortunate to now have a decades- long collection of exhibition catalogues from the private collection of Elsa Longhauser & her illustrious career as a Director of galleries & museums. Many of these catalogues were also designed by her husband William Longhauser.

Elsa Longhauser is the founding executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), formerly the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), where Longhauser served as director from 2000 until the museum ended operations in Bergamot Station in 2015. From 1983 until 2000, Longhauser served as director of the Goldie Paley Gallery at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

These catalogues will be available at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill & gradually added to the web store as well.

Here is a full list:
1984   It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey (Goldie)

1986  The Basel School of Design and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years, 1946-1986 (Goldie)

1987  Jackie Ferrara: Benches, Thrones and a Table 

1988  Adolf Wolfli The Other Side of the Moon

1988  Univeral/ Unique (University of the Arts)

1989  Images of Desire (Goldie)

1990  Hanne Darboven  Primitive Time/ Clock Time (Goldie)

1991  More Works by Ray Johnson  (Goldie)

1991  Josef Hoffmann (Goldie)

1993  Dan Graham: Public/Private  (Goldie)

1993  William Daley: Ceramic Works + Drawings

1993  Allaire du Pont: Works in Needlepoint (Goldie)

1996  Barbara Zucker: For Beauty’s Sake (Goldie)

1997  History for Sale: 2000 Paintings by Stephen Keene (Goldie)

1999  David Reed: Painting/ Vampire Study Center

2000  The Miracle Half-Mile: Ten Thousand Paintings by Stephen Keene (Santa Monica)

2006  Dark Places (Santa Monica)

2006 Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico (Santa Monica)

2007  William Pope.L  Art After White People: Time Trees and Celluloid (Santa Monica)

2011  Beatrice Wood: Career Woman- Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, And Objects (Santa Monica)

2011  Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains (Santa Monica)

2017  Martin Ramirez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation (ICA)

Contempo, a leftist leaning literary newspaper from Chapel Hill, 1931-1934

The rare book collection at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill has most, if not all issues of Contempo, a literary newspaper that was published in Chapel Hill from 1931-1934.  The beautifully designed, and provocative newspaper was founded and published by Milton A. Abernathy and Anthony Buttitta in their dorm room at UNC, along with fellow students Shirley Carter, Phil Liskin and Vincent Garoffolo.  The "little magazine" was a literary and social commentary newspaper that included book reviews, poetry, community news, and articles on social issues like injustice, racism, censorship, sex and morality.  It leaned toward anarchism, socialism & communism in its tone.  The short-lived newspaper included articles and poetry by some big names in writing at the time as well, like William Faulkner (even a whole issue by him), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair & more.

Interestingly too, the founders of the paper founded the Intimate Bookshop in their dorm room which subsequently moved to East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill and lived there for close to 60 years with a rich history all its own.

Scroll through some snapshots of the paper: