BRAINS BRILLIANCY BOHEMIA: ART & POLITICS IN JAZZ-AGE CHICAGO

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marcmoscato — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:30:25 +0000

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

marcmoscato — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:52:49 +0000

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

Solidaity Forever

marcmoscato — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:48:23 +0000

solidarity forever from marc moscato on Vimeo.

Show opens TOMMOROW (Sat 4/4)!

marcmoscato — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:19:46 +0000

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

marcmoscato — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:53:24 +0000

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 I’ve put together a 76-page catalog/ pamphlet that features an essay, an unpublished piece by Dr.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

marcmoscato — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:11 +0000

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

marcmoscato — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:05:08 +0000

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

marcmoscato — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:06:03 +0000

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.

In a video installation will be Marc Moscato’s The More Things Stay the Same, a short documentary examining the life and world of Dr. Ben Reitman (1879-1942), known in his day as “the Clap Doctor”, “King of the Hoboes” and “the most vulgar man in America.” Often best remembered as press agent and lover to anarchist Emma Goldman, Reitman’s work as caretaker for hoboes, prostitutes and the underclass continues to resonate with social and political relevance.

Also included in the exhibition are photocopies from 1910s pulp novels by A-No. 1 Tramp (Leon Ray Livingston), illustrations by Ernie Bushmiller, Franklin McMahon and Herman Rosse, and photos and ephemera from the Ben Reitman and Hull House collections at the University of Illinois. An audio interview with Studs Terkel and biographer Roger Bruns on Dr. Ben Reitman will also be available.

The exhibition will have an accompanying 60-page catalog/ pamphlet that includes an essay by the curator and reprints of Dill Pickle Club materials and features a letterpress cover.

Du Dil Duck Brings Good Luck

marcmoscato — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:35:48 +0000

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.