Jonas Mekas at Boo-Hooray Summer Rental

Jonas Mekas at Boo-Hooray Summer Rental

Saturday, Jul 01, 2017 - Friday, Jul 14, 2017

Location:
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental
805 Montauk Highway
Montauk, NY 11954

Filmmaker and genius OG hepcat Jonas Mekas is bringing his photo and film documentation of Jackie Onassis and the Kennedy kids from the Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey house. He spent a summer there as the film teacher of John-John and Caroline to the delight of Jackie O and her sister Lee in the early 70s. This show marks the first time this body of work has been shown – together with the accompanying audio and video footage.

BOO-HOORAY exhibits both at home in New York City as well as internationally. We also stage collaborative exhibitions with the Hayward Gallery and Rough Trade in London, Tsutaya Daikanyama, Hysteric Glamour, and United Arrows in Tokyo, Galleri Operatingplace in Stockholm, Colette in Paris, PopMontreal in Montreal, Mishka Los Angeles, Printed Matter at both MOCA/LA and PS1/NYC, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and Milk Gallery in New York.

Boo-Hooray exhibitions have included shows featuring Larry Clark, The Velvet Underground, Ray Johnson, Afrika Bambaataa, Jonas Mekas, Ed Sanders, Linder Sterling and Jon Savage, Spencer Sweeney, Houston Rap, private press vinyl, Wallace Berman, anarcho-punk group Crass, Jason Polan, Jack Smith, cult-filmmaker Ed Wood, and Situationist Times editor Jacqueline de Jong.

The exhibitions are drawn from cultural archives that Boo-Hooray excavates, organizes, and places in institutions such as Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Cornell University’s Division of Rare Manuscript Collections, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.