Catalogs

Unobtainium Vol. 2

Unobtainium Vol. 2

Boo-Hooray is proud to present Unobtainium, Vol. 2. This catalog gathers the more extraordinary items we’ve come across in the recent past. The catalog includes the first use of the Crass logo (item no. 7), the working archive for Madonna’s Sex book (item no. 1), the rare premier issue of the underground newspaper the East Village Other (item no. 21), the codpiece pants designed by former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver (item no. 12), the banner Keith Haring made for his favorite sushi restaurant (item no. 67), and many more rare and unique ephemera.

Boo-Hooray Catalog #12: Underground Film

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.