Boo-Hooray is dedicated to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of 20th and 21st century cultural movements. We place artists’ and organizations’ archives with universities and museums; publish books and catalogs; sell rare books, photography, and ephemera; and stage exhibitions.
Catalog 20: Jack Smith
Boo-Hooray is pleased to present our twentieth antiquarian catalog, dedicated to Jack Smith, the singular filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, visual artist, and icon of homosexual sensibility.
J. Hoberman characterized Jack Smith as a “terminally underground, wildly uncommercial photographer, filmmaker, performance artist, and all-around difficult personality.” Each of these respective descriptors is represented in the catalog, which contains voluminous photography (nos. 2-3, 14-15, 17-29, 31-34); drawings (nos. 13, 35-51); ephemera and publications (items no. 52-76); scripts and photo documentation of Smith’s performances (items no. 6-7); manuscript letters (items no. 5, 60); and other art crust from one of America’s most original artists of the post-war avant-garde.
Barbara Ess – Archives
White Columns is proud to present Barbara Ess – Archives in collaboration with Boo-Hooray. Featuring materials drawn from the artist’s estate, the exhibition is a partial account of the life and work of Barbara Ess (1944-2021), a hugely influential and mercurial artist who was a photographer, musician, publisher, educator and longtime pivotal figure in the downtown New York art and music scenes.
Catalog #19: Situationism
Boo-Hooray is pleased to present our nineteenth catalog, dedicated to Situationism.
Ben Morea: Full Circle, 1964–Present
Boo-Hooray is pleased to present “Ben Morea: Full Circle, 1964–Present,” a retrospective exhibition of paintings by artist, publisher, and political activist Ben Morea. On view May 25–June 24, 2023 at Boo-Hooray in NYC’s Chinatown, the exhibition features some of the artist’s earliest paintings from the 1960s, as well as selections from more recent String Theory, Tantric, and his current Animist series spanning the 1990s to today. Accompanying the paintings will be a full run of Morea’s legendary anarchist zine Black Mask, representing his contributions to 1960s counterculture and political radicalism. Curated by Daylon Orr.
Catalog #18: Free Jazz New York Jazz
Boo-Hooray is pleased to present our 18th catalog, dedicated to the New Black Music of the 1960s, more widely known as “free jazz.”
Shortlist #42: Limelight
Boo-Hooray is pleased to present our latest shortlist, gathering flyers and ephemera from Limelight, the mega club that had an unprecedented two decade run as New York's premier party palace.
Shortlist #36: The Wonderful World of John Waters
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our latest shortlist, gathering ephemera from John Waters’ earliest 8mm and 16mm short films and his breakthrough in the early-70s midnight film circuit.
Boo-Hooray Shortlist #34: Danceteria
oo-Hooray is proud to present our latest shortlist, gathering flyers and ephemera from Danceteria, the 1980s New York mega club that united art, nightlife, and bohemian lifestyle in the early years of the AIDS crisis and New York's social and spatial reconfiguration in the interests of the finance and real estate industries.
Catalog #14: Photography
Boo-Hooray is proud to present a catalog dedicated to photography and photobooks, a survey of amateur and professional work throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #12: Underground Film
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our latest catalog, tracing the emergence and trajectory of underground film in New York in the early 1960s to the 1980s: the organizations, screenings, and anti-censorship struggle that gathered and contextualized the films and artists into a coherent and recognizable whole; the move towards experimental, community oriented, and pedagogic video art and activism in the 1970s; and then the crossover of video art and the 1980s downtown scene. Many of the materials document not just the screenings and happenings themselves, but also the array of auxiliary organizations that nurtured and promoted the underground scene.
Catalog #11: Subversion and Perversion
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our eleventh antiquarian catalog, dedicated to sexual identities, cultures, and communities. This catalog celebrates and explores the social terrain based on free and autonomous sexual expression that exists beyond the nuclear family and heterosexist society.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #9: Hippies
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our ninth antiquarian catalog, dedicated to the hippie counterculture.
Born into the dawn of the Cold War, confronted by the possibility of nuclear annihilation, American intervention in the Global South, and rising racial strife, many young people sought to build a new culture, a new society, and new ways of life. Beginning in San Francisco and New York in the mid 1960s, building off of the remnants of the beat generation, new youth cultures began to emerge. For some this meant militant activism for social reorganization; for others, new self-exploration.
The Haitian Chronicles - A New Volume of Work by Douglas Turner Ward
Boo-Hooray is pleased to announce the release of The Haitian Chronicles, a stunning new volume by Douglas Turner Ward - actor, director, playwright, and founder of the Negro Ensemble Company.
The Haitian Chronicles is a graphic and brutal history of the Haitian Revolution told across 3 plays. It is the latest work by the influential and ground-breaking playwright Douglas Turner Ward and the first new work of his to be published in several decades. Though much of his earlier work has been short one-act satires, The Haitian Chronicles takes place across three long plays: The Rise of Toussaint, The Fall of Toussaint and the one-man drama, Dessalines. Previously unpublished and as yet unperformed, The Haitian Chronicles is part of Ward's political project of satirizing, dramatizing, and revealing the structures of white supremacy throughout the history of this so-called civilization.
Boo-Hooray Catalog #6: Factory Records
Boo-Hooray is proud to present our sixth antiquarian catalog, dedicated to Factory Records. This catalog gathers pieces from the material history of one of the most forward-thinking record labels of the 20th Century. Renowned for inventive and genre-pushing music, innovative design, and a tongue-in-cheek take on themselves and the world, Factory Records helped shape the post-punk era as well as modern design and typography. Reflecting their deep involvement in the creation of not just records but an alternative music subculture, social scene, and aesthetic language, Factory Records gave catalog numbers to virtually anything associated with the label. Accessioning items as seemingly unimportant as stationary and Christmas gifts, along with more serious projects like their club and promotional campaigns, fostered the cheeky and self-aware personality that distinguished Factory from corporate labels and overly self-serious independents. This catalog includes the unreleased and exceptionally rare FAC 1 poster, the hand-drawn original flipbook by Robert Breer and William Wegman for the Blue Monday '88 video, and tons of original poster, flyers, and broadsides made for Factory Records.
The Fab Five Freddy Archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Fab 5 Freddy Archive consists of Freddy’s production materials and business records, scripts, treatments, and creative notes. The Archive also consists of a substantial collection of reel-to-reel tapes, VHS, CDs, and DVDs from Freddy’s career. Because of Fab 5 Freddy’s icon status, his archive follows the thread of hip-hop internationally including the narratives of lesser-known musicians, artists, and filmmakers along with that of world-renowned and groundbreaking artistic figures. Additionally, this archive includes clothing and behind-the-scenes photographs of hip-hop history, including the birthday party of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Many photographs are also production shots from videos and films Freddy has worked on from the 1980s up until present.
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