Big Brother and the Holding Company at SFO Museum
The folks at San Francisco International Airport have announced a special event to add a little fun to our When Art Rocked installation of vintage San Francisco rock posters. None other than Big Brother and the Holding Company will perform on Wednesday December 10th, 2014 at the International Terminal near the installation. Festivities start at 12:00 noon, and it’s […]
Widespread Panic’s “Poster Children”
On Friday November 29, 2013, Widespread Panic releases its much-anticipated new book, “Poster Children,” which chronicles 25 years of Panic posters, from the cheap photocopies created to get the word out about their latest gig at the Uptown Lounge in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, to the limited-edition screenprints produced for shows at Red Rocks, […]
Mr. Madonna: An Interview With Chris Shaw
Before the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shutters its South of Market location for three years, during which it will spend almost half a billion dollars to more than double its size for the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, the museum’s restaurant on Third Street closes out its more modest exhibition program with nine […]
Tyler Stout Is a Movie-Poster God, So Let’s Talk About His Rock Posters
By Ben Marks, Senior Editor, Collectors Weekly Tyler Stout was born under a bad sign in a crossfire hurricane. Raised by a pride of pumas in the Chilean Andes, Stout learned draftsmanship from a seven-fingered alien, who found himself stranded in the Southern Hemisphere after being lured there by the lines and symbols scratched into […]
Emek Talks to TRPS About Deadlines, Aesthetics, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Ben Marks, Senior Editor, Collectors Weekly On October 13, when Emek pulls into the Hall of Flowers parking lot for the 14th annual Festival of Rock Posters, he’ll do pretty much what he’s done the last few years he’s attended the show. With the help of his wife, Ronni, he’ll painstakingly unpack his past […]
A Quiet Voice in the Noisy World of Rock
by Ben Marks for Collectors Weekly Over the past decade, a self-effacing artist named John Mavroudis has quietly become a player in the noisy world of rock posters. Mavroudis was officially made a member of the scene in 2004, when he was given his first assignment to create a Yeah Yeah Yeahs poster for San Francisco’s […]
