News & Events

British film magazine Cinema Retro recently caught up with Adam Newell, author of The Art of the B-Movie Poster, for an interview about the book and the art of hunting and collecting vintage film posters. Read the interview here to learn a bit about Newell’s own evolution as a poster collector, the process of putting the book together, and even a few tips on how to store your own B-movie art.

The Art of the B-Movie Poster is Newell’s collection of over 1,000 incredible posters from low-budget films from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. A loving tribute to the artwork and artists that brought biker gangs, jungle girls, James Bond rip-offs and reefer heads to life for audiences around the world, The Art of the B-Movie Poster is currently available from Gingko Press.

Author and designer Catherine Harvey will be at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City on Thursday, March 2nd, to kick off the global tour of her upcoming book Stay With Me: The Most Creative Hotel Brands in the World. The lecture will run from 5:30 to 7:00 pm and, FIT says, will feature the author discussing  “her interest in branded experiences, design trends, and branding strategy of hotels in New York and abroad. She will also discuss sustainability within these branding campaigns.” Stay With Me will be available for pre-order at the event.

Visit FIT’s event page here for more information about this free public event. Stay With Me: The Most Creative Hotel Brands in the World will be available May 2017.

Gingko Press will be at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles for the LA Art Book Fair this weekend from Febraruy 24th to 26th! Stop by Booth P06, where we’ll be exhibiting with our friends Kill Your Idols, to say hello and take a look at some of the new titles we’ll have for Spring 2017. See you there!

For more information about Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, including hours, events, and other great exhibitors, visit their website here.

Catherine Harvey’s eagerly anticipated collection of some of the most creative hotel brands from around the world, Stay With Me, has been included in the March/April edition of Australian Vogue Living. Click the image below to see the piece, or look for the issue on news stands in Australia now!

Stay With Me, which explores groundbreaking hotels from a global perspective, will be available May 2017. Hotels featured within include the NoMad Hotel, Hotel Americano, The Standard High Line, Wythe Hotel,  Palihouse Santa Monica, Hotel Lincoln, citizenM, Claridge’s, The Thief,  Hotel OMM, Ett Hem Stockholm, Scandic Grand Central, Lux Maldives, Bulgari Hotel, Nine Hours Hotel Tokyo, Art Series Hotel Group, and The Oyster Inn, and many more.

“Wall Writers: Graffiti In Its Innocence” about to open with its own exhibit at MCA Denver this Saturday, February 11th. The museum says, “The exhibition includes an impressive array of materials and documentation that celebrate the early roots of pioneering street artists. High school notebooks of the artists, the first canvases painted, spray paint advertisements, commercial greeting cards, as well as richly documented images of buildings completely covered in spray-painted monikers reveal the context of this early movement. Tracing the origins of graffiti, the exhibition also presents the slow transition from art of the street to fine art, including some examples by established artists such as Gordon Matta-Clark and the photographer Jon Naar. Wall Writers also highlights some of the most prolific writers of the time, including TAKI 183 (who wrote in New York City) and Cornbread (who was in Philadelphia). The exhibition as a whole stands as an important historical narrative about the origins of one of the most prolific art movements of the twentieth century.” For more information visit the exhibition website here. 

The comprehensively-researched exhibition will run from February 11th to May 7th, 2017, but you can get an early taste at the museum’s Winter Opening Celebration this Friday, February 10th. A celebration of all of their new winter exhibits, including an exhibition on Basquiat and another on Ryan McGinley as well as the Wall Writers show, the event will run from 7:30 pm to midnight and features a “downtown” dress code. If you’re interested in attending you can find ticket information here, but hurry; VIP tickets for the event are already sold out!

Gingko Press will be returning to the London Book Fair again this year; come by Stand 6A20 from March 14-16 to say hello and see the great projects we have lined up for 2017. You can find us on the map here.

For more information about the Fair, including this year’s “Making Words Go Further” theme and the move back to their Olympia location, visit their website here.

The Berkeley Public Library’s North Berkeley Branch is hosting the Lookout! Bookout Bash on January 7th, a reading by punk veterans Larry Livermore, Grant Lawrence (The Smugglers), Jon Ginoli (Pansy Division), Nick Wolfinger (Jüke), and Dr. Frank (Mr. T Experience) as part of 924 Gilman‘s 30th Anniversary Lookouting Celebration. Stop by from 12:30 to 2:00 pm tomorrow to check it out! For more information, visit the Berkeley Public Library’s page here.

Author Todd Blubaugh has his radio debut on Jefferson Public Radio tomorrow, January 5th, from 9:00 – 9:40 am (Pacific). Todd will be in discussion on the Jefferson Exchange with hosts Geoffrey Riley and Emily Cureton, and they’ll be taking live calls and emails from listeners. Find out how to get involved with the live interactive program here.

Fans in Southern Oregon and Northern California can find their JPR station here; if you’re outside of the listening area, visit JPR to livestream the episode tomorrow morning at 9:00 am.

Drop by Jefferson Public Radio from 9:00 – 9:40 am on Thursday, January 5th to hear author and photographer Todd Blubaugh discuss his book Too Far Gone, among other subjects, on JPR’s Jefferson Exchange Program.

Jefferson Public Radio is an NPR member broadcasting from Ashland, Oregon for audiences in Northern California and Southern Oregon. The Jefferson Exchange is their “live interactive program devoted to current events and news makers from around the region and beyond.” The Jefferson Exchange takes live calls and emails, so if you have a burning question for Todd, feel free to participate! You can listen in on your local JPR station; if you’re outside of their broadcast area you can stream the program live here.

Florence Walker at Petrolicious has just published a great new interview with Todd Blubaugh that delves into the gearhead aspects of his 6-month road trip in 2013 as well as the spiritual and psychological.

Walker says of Too Far Gone, “One day English Literature Students in lofty ivory towers will study the themes surrounding road trips with the same intensity as they study gender in Twelfth Night and love in Romeo and Juliet. One of the works you could imagine them discussing late into the night is Todd Blubaugh’s latest offering, Too Far Gone.” She goes on, “Todd’s poetic language and candid photography is therapy in itself for the reader. For anyone seeking to understand man’s way of dealing with bereavement, this book is a must.”

Treat yourself to the full interview at Petrolicious here. Too Far Gone is available from Gingko Press.

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