Category: Concert Posters
[caption id="attachment_24401" align="alignleft" width="224"] © Jeff Soto[/caption] Painter, illustrator, muralist, husband, father: Jeff Soto is all these things. The two things that inspired him, as he reports: classic painting and street graffiti, two aspects of art that help, according to his website, "bridge the gap between pop...
[caption id="attachment_24498" align="alignleft" width="194"] © Jeff Lance[/caption] In 1869, a year before he died, the Uruguayan-born French poet, Comte de Lautréamont, published a phrase in a book of poems that would become famous when discovered by André Breton: "as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing...
[caption id="attachment_24165" align="alignleft" width="227"] © Jeff Kleinsmith[/caption] A few weeks back, I ordered a poster from Cargo Collective for a Spoon show I went to more than 10 years ago. The artist was Jeff Kleinsmith, who has designed logos for the American Poster Institute and Sub Pop,...
[caption id="attachment_24482" align="alignleft" width="226"] © A. Micah Smith[/caption] Now that we've passed Memorial Day, summer is upon us, and you may find yourself barbecuing—as this gentleman, rendered in a mid-century graphic, is doing. What an image, so summery, so retro, even the bear in the background,...
The largest and rarest concert poster collection has been unearthed and is making waves! The Ultrasounds Collection, 35 years in the making, is changing the niche market of concert poster collecting. With the help of CGC and Psychedelic Art Exchange, 23 of the rarest and finest...
What are the values of posters today? It may depend on a number of factors. Consider the classic Led Zeppelin concert poster for the 1969 Fillmore shows. It's an avocado. It's a funny avocado. It's also a near mint $890 avocado. According to Wolfgang's, where...
[caption id="attachment_23621" align="alignleft" width="211"] venue poster[/caption] Punk music has a flavor of characters to check out. There's The Clash, The Ramones, and of course the Sex Pistols. The latter is quite a handful. For starters, the Sex Pistols prime years didn't even last half a decade. Punk...
Imagine New Year's Eve, 1967. In San Francisco. At the Winterland. And now imagine a line-up: headliners Jefferson Airplane, then in their prime; Big Brother and the Holding Company (yes, that's Janis Joplin's band); Quicksilver Messenger Service and Freedom Highway. Talk about memorable. Well,...
[caption id="attachment_23682" align="alignleft" width="225"] © Mike King[/caption] One of the loveliest, simplest pieces of art I hung in my daughter's room: Mike King's 2005 gig poster for the Arcade Fire. Its depiction of childhood is itself childlike in its wonder, and there's far more to the image...
[caption id="attachment_23494" align="alignleft" width="210"] © Tara McPherson[/caption] Today I want to write about Tara McPherson. McPherson is, well, how else can I say it, an artist. She studied art, and earned a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a major in Illustration....
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