Amigos & Friends at the AS220 Project Space

We are excited to announce that we have curated a group show and collaborative zine exhibit in the AS220 Reading Room, located in their Project Space at 93 Mathewson St.  Based on one of our main interests as Amigos, we asked a handful of our artist friends to participate in Amigos & Friends.  These artists in turn asked a friend to also exhibit in the show, either on collaborative or separate work.  In addition to these pieces, all artists were encouraged to submit printed matter which will be on view alongside a selection of Amigos zines (and zines by other amigos), to highlight the atmosphere of AS220's Reading Room.  The opening reception of Amigos & Friends will be held on Sunday October 2nd from 4-7PM.  The exhibition will then be on display through the month of October. 

58 cents Project by David Horvitz

Brooklyn-based artist David Horvitz has a new participatory project that also serves the practical function of reducing his student debt.  The project, hosted here, is the artists' attempt "to use the internet to get 100,000 people to mail the Sallie Mae corporation a check for 58 cents."  Horvitz's loans from Sallie Mae, which financed his MFA at Bard College are currently at approximately $58000.  Horvitz hopes to use this community action to pay down his debt and also to flood the mailbox of Sallie Mae.  The artist is attempting to track all the participants on Twitter @fiftyeightcents.  You can learn the specific details on how to get involved on his site here.  Best of all, the site encourages anyone who has debt and likes this idea to use it for themselves.

Featured Item: Ad Hoc Project

Ad Hoc Project by Rafaela Drazic, focuses on the topic of censorship in the arts.  The book deals specifically with two projects.  The first is a controversial photo show of street graffiti that was cancelled at the City of Museum of Split in Croatia (and subsequently shown in an alternative space).  The second is the Secret Exhibitions project, where artists facing censorship were asked to participate in a "secret" exhibition: namely, the artists were to fax in their work at a specific time to an apartment that would be showing the work.  The ad hoc nature of the project, "will the artists and designers invited to participation reply to it at all (considering they all had to send their works at the same time, although many of them live in different time zones), will the fax machine borrowed for the occasion function properly, will there be enough paper, will international calls be established without problems..." helped to set up an atmosphere where censorship could be considered from a variety of perspectives.  The book, published in English and Croatian, offers text on the subjects as well as black and white reproductions of much of the work.

Saturday 9/17/11! Holeshot Issue 9 Release!

New Zines from Hamburger Eyes!

We just got these rad new zines in from our pals over at Hamburger Eyes: Earthlings by Uri Korn, Lindzine, 847, Do You Have Your Radio Off? by Bill Daniel and Slag Hag by John Oliver Hodges.  Stop by the shop to check them out or purchase them via the link below.  We are partial to Lindzine, a zine devoted to LiLo.  Alternating between glamorous magazine photos and trashy snapshots, the images in Lindzine show the actress from her innocent Mean Girls days to hanging out in a bikini with her ankle monitor on.  A must-have for anyone who loves to hate celebutantes.

Zines

Lindzine $6.00 Earthlings $5.00 847, Do You Have Your Radio Off? $5.00 Slag Hag $5.00

Tonight at Winton Bell Gallerrry

Amigos will be closed Fridays through September.  We will still be open Saturdays 12-7 and Sunday 12-4 and by appointment.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  Hope you're enjoying your rainy daze!

Mostly True, Party Cove, & Closed for Labor Day

We are psyched to have a couple copies of Bill Daniel's awesome hobo graffiti book, Mostly True.  Mostly True is filled with tons of great content about one of America's most intriguing forms of communication. This one comes in at 144 pages and is well worth your 8 bucks.

Mostly True
by Bill Daniels
144 pages, perfect bound, 6"x9"

 Just in time for the ultimate party weekend, Labor Day, we got a restock on Andrew Burton's Party Cove mix CD series.  Andrew also cooked up a brand new volume for your listening pleasure and so you can dance until the world ends.  1 DOLLA!

Select Volume!

Vol 1. $1.00 Vol 2. $1.00 Vol 3. $1.00 Vol 4. $1.00

Speaking of Labor Day, we will be closed Sunday September 4th to get some relaxation.  Stop by today for all of your end of summer reading/listening/fun needs!

Have a safe and fun holiday weekend!