ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 11/1/2024 Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!DATE 10/27/2024 Denim deep diveDATE 10/26/2024 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object High Point, 2024DATE 10/24/2024 Photorealism lives!DATE 10/21/2024 The must-have monograph on Yoshitomo NaraDATE 10/20/2024 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love' opens at Philadelphia Museum of ArtDATE 10/17/2024 ‘Indigenous Histories’ is Back in Stock!DATE 10/16/2024 192 Books presents Glenn Ligon and James Hoff on 'Distinguishing Piss from Rain'DATE 10/15/2024 ‘Cyberpunk’ opens at the Academy Museum of Motion PicturesDATE 10/14/2024 Celebrate Indigenous artists across the spectrumDATE 10/10/2024 Textile as language in 'Sheila Hicks: Radical Vertical Inquiries'DATE 10/8/2024 Queer history, science-fiction and the occult in visionary, pulp-age Los AngelesDATE 10/6/2024 The Academy Museum comes on strong with 'Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema' | EVENTSJAMES LUCAS | DATE 3/8/2011Mark Morrisroe Opening at Artists Space, March 5, 2011On Saturday, March 5, 2011, the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of Mark Morrisroe's work opened at Artists Space in New York. The heartbreaking show features photographs, polaroids, and ephemera, including issues of the punk zine Dirt, which Morrisroe co-founded with friend Lynelle White around 1975. A major monograph published by JRP accompanies the exhibition which, in a different form, was first mounted at the Kunsthalle Zurich under the direction of Beatrix Ruf. A contemporary of Jack Pierson, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong, Morrisroe (1959-1989) documented his life and the lives of friends, hustlers, and lovers in photographs - Polaroids, "sandwich prints," hand-painted photograms - which beautifully capture the urgency and ephemerality of the post-punk scene in Boston and New York in the 1970s and 80s. In attendance at Saturday’s event were intimates such as Jack Pierson (known to Morrisroe as Jonathan) and admirers Collier Schorr, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Joan Jonas. The evening ended underground at the SubMercer lounge. |