Bleached

Ooga Booga is releasing their first vinyl 7” by Bleached (featuring the Clavin sisters formerly of Mika Miko). Peep their song “No Friend of Mine” off the new Francis EP and check out the record at the OB release party tomorrow March 1st!

Grand Opening this Saturday!

Our Grand Opening is this Saturday from 12-8!  We'll have snacks, stickers and an installation by Rachel Fae Coleman.  Come check out our selection of zines, art books and objects from all kinds of talented artists and independent presses!  If you can't make it, our regular store hours will start on Sunday.  Please call with any questions 401-439-9532.  We hope to see you then!

untitled gallery

On Monday Feb. 28, ICI is showing a preview of Brendan Fowler's premier exhibition at Untitled Gallery.  Check it out 6:30 to 8:00 PM, more info here.

The Serving Library

This spring, Dexter Sinister is busy morphing from a "just-in-time workshop and occasional bookstore" into an non-profit institution-of-sorts called The Serving Library. This involves incorporating (The Serving Library Company, Inc.), describing (A Statement of Intent) and fundraising (here).

The idea is to build on the haphazard, contingent clutter of activities assembled during the five-year lease of our basement space on Ludlow Street in New York (which expires just before the summer) towards a more explicit, coherent set of intentions that can be condensed into the following equation:

"The Serving Library is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing. It will consist of 1. an ambitious public website; 2. a small physical library space; 3. a publishing program which runs through #1 and #2."

The longer story involves two collections of books and artifacts, an online and printed successor to Dot Dot Dot called Bulletins of The Serving Library, a speculative Foundation Course modeled on the Photoshop Toolbox, a rotating Guest Librarianship, and a 12-year Black Whisky. Further elaboration is offered in A Statement of Intent, available from our existing library.

"I don't complain about institutions! I complain about institutions that I don't like." (Michelangelo Pistoletto)

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is a bear more like a dog or a cat?

 

Something's Bruin in Providence

Party Time!

Amigos & Friends Volume 1 is now available!

We're psyched to announce that Amigos & Friends Volume 1 is now available for order in our online store.  Amigos & Friends Volume 1 is 24 color and black+white pages, featuring artwork by Megan Plunkett, Chad Moore, Abby Grenon, Rachel Fae Coleman, Kenyon Q. Smith, Hilary Burkitt, Dylan Goettlich, Vinny Martin, and Cate Schappert.  Amigos & Friends is a serial publication bringing a group show format to print, look for additional volumes in the future.  We hope you'll check it out, we only have a few copies left!

Untitled (paint cans, tecate)

We're almost done with our new shop that we are opening up here in Providence. The grand opening will be February 26th. We'll have more details soon!

2True

Amigos pal Max Krivitsky is starting a club night with some friends in LA called 2True.  Their night, which premiers on February 10, will be held at Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown.  I'm sure it will be a night to remember!  Check out their blog and website for more info.

Twice Removed at Golden Age

 

Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work, curated by Karly Wildenhaus is on view at Golden Age until March 6. From their website, this project aims to "provide a venue where the multiplicity of meanings and post-exhibition life implied by the take away model can be considered by exhibiting single units of these works together."  Golden Age will publish a pamphlet and maintain a website after the show.

LHTHF fiesta

Sorry for the delay, but here are some photos from our recent Learn How To Have Fun release party/group show extraordinaire.  Thanks for coming!  And don't forget LHTHF is now available for purchase in our online store here.

Learn How to Have Fun is Now Available!

We're happy to announce that Learn How to Have Fun is now available for order in our online store.  Learn How to Have Fun is 12 full-color broadsheet pages of selected entries from the anonymous blog of the same name.  LHTHF, the blog, offers advice that is both real and sarcastic in nature, urging readers to stop and appreciate the ridiculousness that life has to offer.  This zine offers the reader a chance to view the candid photos in a more intimate setting and presents the often hilarious embedded links as helpful footnotes.  Check it out!

MEN at Ooga Booga

MEN are performing tonite at 8PM at Ooga Booga, in anticipation of the release of their new record, “Talk About Body”!  This is sure to be amazing so check it out!

John McWhinnie by Peter Sutherland

There's a cool interview with rare book dealer/publisher John McWhinnie on New York based artist Peter Sutherland's blog. It's worth a read even if you think that the rare book world is stuffy and pretentious. Also be sure to check Peter's blog for what could be considered an almost real time look at what goes on inside his head!