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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 04/10/2026

In 1940, the Museum of Modern Art acquired its first works by Model. During this period, writes Shatz, Model joined the New York Photo League, “a collective of left-wing photographers that had formed in the mid-1930s to chronicle the American labor movement" www.moma.org/interactives...

Black & white photo by Lisette Model, reflection of model in window, midtown Manhattan. Reflections, NYC, Pin up, c.1939-45

copyright : Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy baudoin lebon / Avi Keitelman

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 04/10/2026

Model's first published photos ran in a French pictorial magazine during the 1930s. The Austrian-born American street photographer had secretly snapped some close-cropped images of tourists, and the editors were interested. She and her husband emigrated in 1938 to New York City

Lisette Model, Window Reflections, Fifth Avenue, NYC, 1940

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 02/10/2026

The annual posters for Herman Miller's company picnic in Zeeland, Michigan, were inaugurated in 1970, when the iconic American furniture manufacturer "recruited graphic designer Steve Frykholm straight out of the nearby Cranbrook Academy of Art" www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/summ...

Color illustration, closeup of a hot dog with pickles and mustard, Herman Miller company picnic poster design: Stephen Frykholm for Herman Miller, 1973

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 01/10/2026

A show at NYU's Grey Art Museum is the "first exhibition to explore Helen Frankenthaler's career-long engagement with music and dance as seen through her printmaking practice" greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/news/press-r...

Helen Frankenthaler, La Sardana, 1987. One color sugar-lift aquatint with hand additions in gouache. On view now at NYU's Grey Art Museum

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 01/10/2026

At his newsletter, @jaywbabcock.bsky.social links to a 2013-era piece by Stewart Voegtlin on “John Coltrane’s startling 1960s ascension from space bebop to universe symphonies” that ran in the final issue of Arthur (PDF link at post, illustration by Beaver) jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-s...

2013-era illustration for Arthur by Beaver: Top: ASTRAL PLANE (L to R): Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Donald Garrett, McCoy Tyner. Bottom: MATERIAL PLANE (L to R): Sanders, Garrison, Garrett, Jones, Tyner, Coltrane

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026

But this graphic / donyc dot com programatically pulling in his profile 🤔

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026

This large exhibition of Harlem-born photographer Roy DeCarava’s work at David Zwirner in LA looks like a must-see www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

B&W photograph by Roy DeCarava
“Woman and children at intersection,” 1952, on view at David Zwirner gallery in Los Angeles through 10/31/26

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 18/09/2026

Postwar artist S. Neil Fujita, who designed ~50 album covers for Columbia Records in the late 1950s as “the label’s first in-house art director,” is one of six Japanese-American artists featured in a new Barnes Foundation show — see @natechinen.bsky.social www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...

A selection of Columbia album covers designed by S. Neil Fujita, in 'Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America' at The Barnes Foundation.

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 17/09/2026

More of Becky Suss’s work can be found via her IG www.instagram.com/beckysuss

Becky Suss’s “Night Garden” — a painting of a house’s exterior at night with tall sunflowers growing along the facade. This painting is part of Suss’s 2026 show at Jack Shainman gallery in NYC

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 17/09/2026

Forty rare, early Keith Haring artworks come to auction news.artnet.com/market/keith...

Keith Haring, Untitled (1979) (est. $4,000 – $6,000). Photo: courtesy of Sotheby’s. This untitled collagist work, which features snippets of text and reproduced Keith Haring drawings as well as a portrait photo of the artist, are coming to auction

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 16/09/2026

Reliably ethereal sounds from Mary Lattimore at Jack Shainman Gallery for Becky Suss’s show jackshainman.com/artists/beck...

Harpist Mary Lattimore performs at NYC’s Jack Shainman Gallery for Becky Suss’s show

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 16/09/2026

Chromatic Sublime: An array of spellbinding, hyper-colorful early 20th-century paintings in Josh Glenn’s spotlight on Radium Age-era art at HiLOBROW www.hilobrow.com/2026/08/17/c... 🎨: Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay’s “Prismes électriques” (1914)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 15/09/2026

Powell was a Tory MP in Wolverhampton. His speech, rife with anti-immigrant sentiment, served as a recruitment tool for the National Front, and the racism that postwar Britain's immigrants had always endured persisted in places like this West Midlands borough, and sometimes resulted in violence

Immigrants and white youths dance along to a record at a community center in Wolverhampton, 1978. Black and white photograph by Chris Steele-Perkins for Magnum

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 15/09/2026

A short-ish new post on this photograph, which was shot by Chris Steele-Perkins in Wolverhampton, England, in 1978—it's featured in "The Music Is Black: A British Story" exhibition at London's V&A East www.dominicumile.com/blog/chris-s...

Black and white portrait of Caribbean immigrants dancing to reggae played on a sound system at a church youth disco party in Wolverhampton, England, shot by Chris Steele-Perkins in 1978. This image is included in "The Music Is Black: A British Story" at London's V&A East

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 12/09/2026

Love an early set time—those checking in on this Hammered Hulls tour are gonna hear new ones that are just straight-up fast, mic-stand-swinging, early ‘80s-sounding hardcore. What a monster four-piece band

Hammered Hulls performing live at Mercury Lounge in NYC on 9/11/26

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 11/09/2026

NYT reports that celebrated photographer Jay Maisel, who worked out of the magnificent Germania Bank building on the Bowery and shot the cover of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, has died at 95 (the 'Jay Myself' doc is a must-watch) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...

Album cover, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, color photograph of Miles playing trumpet shot by Jay Maisel

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 10/09/2026

A new @fantagraphics.bsky.social monograph features 100+ images of jazz artists by legendary producer Don Schlitten, who began photographing jazz during the 1950s www.thetonearm.com/photographin... @thetonearm.com

Don Schlitten's b&w photo of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Shadow Wilson performing at The 5 Spot in 1957

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 10/09/2026

Stacks of 45s and LPs courtesy of (Lord?) Koo's Record Shop at Notting Hill Carnival in London, 1989 📸: Adrian Boot

Children relax near a bin / box / truck flatbed featuring stacks of 45s and LPs courtesy of (Lord?) Koo's Records at Notting Hill Carnival in London, 1989. Black and white photograph by Adrian Boot

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 09/09/2026

A new Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition will "revisit images by Gordon Parks through the reflections of the people and families he photographed" jackshainman.com/exhibitions/... #photography

Gordon Parks, At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation). Color photograph features a Black man helping young girls drink from a "Colored"-designated water fountain outside an ice cream parlor in Mobile, Alabama. This image will be included in the Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror exhibit at Jack Shainman gallery in NYC

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 09/09/2026

Snaps from 2026’s Notting Hill Carnival—our third! One of the most thrilling events of the year. Gladdy Wax Soundsystem, Channel One, and a shot of the afterparty at the Tabernacle with NYC’s own Grace of Spades. Love you London

People walking at Notting Hill Carnival 2026

Gladdy Wax Soundsystem and a crowd of people in front of the speaker stacks at Notting Hill Carnival 2026

Channel One Soundsystem at Notting Hill Carnival 2026 in London

DJ Grace of Spades selecting at Tabernacle at Notting Hill Carnival 2026

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 07/09/2026

Saw someone wearing this Byrds ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ shirt in London, and my better half tracked it down on these here internets. It’s a real statement piece and understandably pricey but a nice gift for that very *specific* special someone www.doglondon.com/product/rode...

Long-sleeve shirt by Dog London emblazoned with the album cover art for The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo LP (orig art by Jo Mora)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 25/08/2026

"Suddenly, the Notting Hill carnival made sense. Youngsters came down in droves because this was our carnival now, and while we appreciated what it stood for historically, we wanted to enjoy ourselves, too" www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Girls dancing on a street corner at Notting Hill Carnival in 1975. Photograph: Richard Braine/Pymca/REX/Shutterstock

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 25/08/2026

A pleasant sea breeze, beachside beers, very good company, and Philly’s Emily Robb in thrilling full-band mode last night at Rippers on the Rockaway Peninsula 🔥 (caught Lottie’s and some of Prison too)

Philadelphia musician Emily Robb and her band live at Ripper’s on Rockaway Beach on 8/23/26

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 24/08/2026

You've might've seen this new book on the visual design of Prestige press.rit.edu/978193912591... ... interview w/ the authors here www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...

Book cover, WAIL: The Visual Language of Prestige Records (RIT Press, 2025)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 22/08/2026

César Villela's cover art for Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's À Vontade (1963, Elenco) — Cabitt writes about Villela's specific palette for the label's sleeves theartofcoverart.substack.com/p/black-red-...

César Villela's cover art for Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's À Vontade (1963, Elenco) features a sparse black and white line drawing of a person playing guitar with playful hand-drawn lettering and an array of red squares and other shapes floating overtop the instrument's soundhole

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 22/08/2026

Since @gothamist.com is talkin’ ‘bout P.I.T. in Williamsburg, let’s plug this, as it’s volunteer-run and funded by sales, and by donations taken at events (6PM doors)

Event flier for live show featuring Everloving, Cool Whip, and Faulty Rabbit at Property is Theft in Williamsburg, 8/22, 6PM

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 21/08/2026

"I had this image of a giraffe with its legs in a perfect stride from a 1964 trip to Kenya." | For Tom Jobim's Wave LP, a last-minute printer error turned the sky in Pete Turner's photograph green for the 1971 reissue of the LP

Album cover, Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Wave' featuring photography by Pete Turner

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 20/08/2026

Author @michaelazerrad.bsky.social interviews @erasedtapes.com artist and composer Tyondai Braxton at the very mighty Record Grouch in Greenpoint tonight. Grab an umbrella and get on over there

Flyer for event at Record Grouch in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on 8/20/26— Michael Azerrad interviews Erased Tapes artist and composer Tyondai Braxton (album signing too)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 19/08/2026

Heard that @nitishpahwa.com is renting a van / setting up an Amtrak GoFundMe to get Rome’s Brooklyn devotees out to Philly for this, thanks in advance my guy

Flyer for Rome Streetz and Fergie Baby live show in Philly at Underground Arts 8/20/26

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 15/08/2026

“Even if you never went to bars, nor smoked cigarettes, most humans with a heart ended up in some part of this song’s inspired math triad, when two plus one inevitably, strangely, equals one” www.hilobrow.com/2026/08/12/p...

Color photo of 45 label for Patsy Cline’s “Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray”

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 15/08/2026

Bensonhurst-born photographer Helen Levitt "believed that the city’s working-class communities of color possessed a beauty and drama all their own" hyperallergic.com/helen-levitt... via @hyperallergic.com

Color photo of a small child climbing down into the street in NYC with a foot on the curb next to a parked green car. Photo by Helen Levitt, “New York” (1971), dye transfer (© Film Documents LLC; image courtesy Zander Galerie, Cologne)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 12/08/2026

New York’s Schoelkopf Gallery is exhibiting the work of overlooked Black midcentury abstract artist Felrath Hines www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Abstract painting called "Bouquet" (1957) by Felrath Hines, on view at Schoelkopf Gallery

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 11/08/2026

Fortuitously caught all-vinyl DJ sets on Sat on the LES from Cutbird and Late 4 Dinner. Both awesome. Funk, soul, disco etc., didnt know former but latter i’d been meaning to see forever, and wow—a Large Professor affiliate, all beat juggling, cuts, hyper-fast tricks. They’re in Brooklyn on 8/15

Flyer for Sat 8/15 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn—DJ sets from Cutbird, Ajai Kasim, Late 4 Dinner. Event is at a … sports store (?) / cafe

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 10/08/2026

"I’m teaching a graduate seminar called Analog and I gave the students an assignment to go record digging. I gave them certain parameters: they had to be in a store for one hour and they had to come home with a few records" (via Journal of Jazz Studies) jjs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jj...

A patron talking with the bartender/owner at the jazz kissa Minton House, Yokohama (photo by Mark Katz)

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 10/08/2026

👀 "The Beat Konducta Box Set collects Madlib’s complete Beat Konducta instrumental series on 7LPs, available together in a deluxe heavyweight slipcase" www.stonesthrow.com/store/beat-k...

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 08/08/2026

Happy 60th to the Beatles' Revolver—here's me in 2018 at @hyperallergic.com on cartoonist Carol Tyler's recreation of her teenage Beatles-centric diaries hyperallergic.com/fab4-mania-c... @fantagraphics.bsky.social #comics

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 07/08/2026

At @thetonearm.com, an interview with jazz kissa chronicler extraordinaire Katsumasa Kusunose www.thetonearm.com/katsumasa-ku...

Photo by Katsumasa Kusunose, interior shot of Japanese jazz kissa that spotlights a wall of shelves stocked with vinyl records and custom-built DJ station with mixer and two turntables

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 07/08/2026

Solid Hudson Valley hangs w/ friends recently—poolside beers, grilling etc. But this bathroom and kitchen? At the nearby midcentury home and studio that modernist polymath designer Russel Wright and his equally gifted wife Mary Wright had built? In a stone quarry? A dream www.visitmanitoga.org

Kitchen at Manitoga, midcentury-era studio and home of designers Russel Wright and Mary Wright in NY’s Hudson Valley, built in the side of an abandoned stone quarry

Bathroom at Manitoga, midcentury-era studio and home of designers Russel Wright and Mary Wright in NY’s Hudson Valley, built in the side of an abandoned stone quarry

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 06/08/2026

Small but cool show (see it through closing time at the gallery tomorrow, 8/7)—the late '60s-era color photography by Dead manager Ron Rakow is wondrous and super vivid, and seeing this shot of Golden Gate park in person is really something www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions/...

Ron Rakow's color photograph of the Grateful Dead performing in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 1967

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 05/08/2026

Scott B. Montgomery, for 'The Sixties' journal in 2018: "In hindsight, the absence of Bonnie MacLean from the Joint Show is striking. The occasional, misguided placement of her on a purported 'second tier' of psychedelic poster artists is in part the result of her absence from the Joint Show"

Bonnie MacLean; The Who, Loading Zone, 1967; Offset lithograph; 21.25 x 14 in. Publisher: Bill Graham Presents, San Francisco.

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 05/08/2026

Prior to LIFE’s big feature on the subject, a popular exhibition of psychedelic poster art called “The Joint Show” was staged in San Francisco, at the blistering-hot center of the poster explosion www.dominicumile.com/blog/bonnie-...

Invitation to a wildly popular but critically ignored exhibition of psychedelic poster art in San Francisco called "The Joint Show" in 1967

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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 04/08/2026

I love Ray Bradbury's apparent reference to his 1950 story "The Veldt" in "There Will Come Soft Rains" (I think "The Veldt" was published months later?): "The nursery walls glowed. Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers [...] the walls lived."

Interior spread, the September 23, 1950 edition of the Saturday Evening Post, story by Ray Bradbury titled “The World the Children Made,” which was later renamed "The Veldt"

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