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Trying to keep up with hosting and maintaining multiple sites. For future updates, please refer to my “whittlin’ away” website…
http://marcmoscato.com/

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‘Brains’ reviewed in Newcity

http://art.newcity.com/2009/04/06/eye-exam-a-night-in-bohemia/

Solidaity Forever

solidarity forever from marc moscato on Vimeo.

Show opens TOMMOROW (Sat 4/4)!

One day to blastoff and the install is going well. Show’s gotten some good press. Check these:
http://www.gapersblock.com/ac/2009/03/18/remembering-chicagos-hobohemia/ http://flavorpill.com/chicago/events/2009/4/4/brains-brilliancy-bohemia http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/art/090402/

Brains about to blow up

Show goes up in just 2 short weeks!

Download poster as PDF!

Download press release as PDF!

I’m trying to raise a little $ to help defray my travel costs. I’ve put together a 76-page catalog/ pamphlet that features an essay, an unpublished piece by Dr. Ben Reitman, reprints of Dill Pickle Club materials and a letterpress cover. Copies are cheap: $7! You can also support this project by purchasing a limited edition print, or making a donation via Paypal.

Support Brains here.

Gaper’s blog post & Version

Thanks David Schalliol for the nice blog post on Gaper’s Block yesterday.

Also, just found out after its run at Mess Hall, “Brains” will be travellin’ on down to the NFO XPO at this year’s Version Fest. More here: http://www.versionfest.org/

Dil Pickle Club poster

Dean DeMatteis did the design for a new Just Seeds poster on the Dil Pickle Club! Thanks Fred Sasaki on nailin’ down the copy…
PLEASE NOTE: These are not available for purchase at this time.

Dil Pickle Club celebrate people's history poster

“Brains” to open April 4th @ Mess Hall

Encompassing an exhibition of 1910s-1920s hobohemian ephemera, an accompanying publication and an events series, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia connects Chicago’s long tradition of non-tradition with the work of contemporary artists and activists. The exhibition is the first known overview of visual culture produced during the hobohemian era, a precursor to present day cultural resistance.

Material from the exhibition draws heavily from the archives of the Newberry Library, whose collections chronicle Chicago’s legendary but ill-forgotten Dill Pickle Club. The Dill Pickle provided a forum for free speech and the meeting place for many of the city’s most famous authors, intellectuals and radicals, including Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Clarence Darrow, Lucy Parsons, Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hecht, Harriet Monroe and Vachel Lindsay. Included in the exhibition are photocopy reproductions of letterpress and woodcut handbills, fliers and posters announcing and advertising numerous lectures, readings, parties, plays and other regular activities.

Du Dil Duck Brings Good Luck

I’m trying to raise the cash to print a catalog for an exhibition on the Dill Pickle’s history. If you would like to make this fine publication exist in the world, please contact me. I promise to be kind. Here is a preview.