Anthology

01/08/2024

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The cellist and the biographer talk genre, fame, and the legendary artist’s legacy.

03/07/2024

✨We're very excited about all the Arthur Russell events coming up on both coasts next week!

NYC: On Friday July 12th, the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park will feature a special evening of free programming curated by Dada Strain to celebrate the release of TRAVELS OVER FEELING. Paying homage to Russell’s timeless genre-blending work, the acclaimed Wordless Music Orchestra, conducted by Bill Ruyle, will perform the 1983 album Tower of Meaning — in its New York premiere. The evening will kick off with a DJ set from the multifaceted music and nightlife project Love Injection and will close out with a DJ set by NY dance music legend François K. S/O to BRIC and Celebrate Brooklyn for partnering with us to create such an amazing event!

PDX: Happening simultaneously on July 12th, our friends at Mississippi Records are presenting an evening of books, film, and music at the landmark Hollywood Theatre — featuring the films Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell by Matt Wolf and Terrace of Unintelligibility, a video by Phill Niblock. The evening will include live tributes from Harlan Silverman, Dragging an Ox through Water, Skyler Pia, and Half-Shadow, plus a discussion between MR’s Eric Isaacson and Arthur Russell’s archivist, Steve Knutson of Audika Records. Proceeds from the evening to benefit Janus Youth in Portland for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness.

NYC: On Sunday July 14th, join author Richard King as part of “Readings at Parkside” presented by Tent Editions as he reads from TRAVELS OVER FEELING at Parkside Lounge in the Lower East Side. Come through for the rare opportunity to experience excerpts of the thoughtful texts and extensive original research that went into this landmark publication from the author who assembled them.

Copies of TRAVELS OVER FEELING will be available at all events. We can't wait to see you there!

27/06/2024

When JEB (Joan E. Biren) and her community made these photos in the 1970s, there was almost no representation of le***an life in the mainstream media. Fifty years later, we are proud to work with her as she continues to present these images to an ever-growing audience. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights, during Pride Month and every day of the year. ✨

21/06/2024

🍓 Our annual starts now!!! Get 15-30% discounts on select music, books, and merchandise through August 2nd!

A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Greenpoint Hunger Program, a non-sectarian emergency food program that provides no-cost groceries and hot meals to hungry people in Brooklyn. Their mission is to ensure that no one dies of hunger in North Brooklyn. They serve all people in need, regardless of age, race, gender, s*xual orientation, immigration status or faith background (or lack thereof).

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08/05/2024

BRIC just announced their Celebrate Brooklyn lineup and we’re excited to finally be able to share an event that we’ve partnered on this summer! ⛱️

On July 12th, the Lena Horne bandshell in Prospect Park will feature a special evening of free programming curated by Dada Strain to celebrate the release of TRAVELS OVER FEELING: ARTHUR RUSSELL, A LIFE. Paying homage to Arthur’s timeless genre-blending work, the acclaimed Wordless Music Orchestra, conducted by Bill Ruyle, will perform the 1983 album Tower of Meaning — in its New York premiere. The evening will kick off with a DJ set from the multifaceted music and nightlife project Love Injection and will close out with a DJ set by NY dance music legend François K.

We’ll be there with books and author Richard King will be in attendance, both onstage and off. There is so much more to say about this event, so stay tuned for updates — we can’t wait to celebrate Arthur and his work with you. ✨🌹🎻

🚨 RSVP for the event now: https://bricartsmedia.org/event/travels-over-feeling-celebrating-arthur-russell/
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival

16/04/2024

“This book is an attempt to trace a journey through the archives of that singular life. . . . The vigor and intensity of Arthur’s creative process are visible on the page, as is a palpable sense of industriousness and, more occasionally, frustration. Rather than make sense of the creative decisions Arthur made, the papers demonstrate that a definitive portrait of Arthur Russell is an unrealistic proposition. He was an artist capable of writing folkish, reflective songs of Blakean childlike wonder, who could also write about s*x with the same purposefulness, candor and authority as Prince or Betty Davis." —Richard King, from the introduction

​TRAVELS OVER FEELING: ARTHUR RUSSELL, A LIFE is available *today* on our webshop and through bookstores worldwide. We’re hard at work putting the finishing touches on some really special events to celebrate Arthur and his music. Get updates through our newsletter or keep an eye out for details soon! ✨🎶🎻

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07/03/2024

Over the past decade, artist Emma Kohlmann has harnessed the expressive possibilities of watercolor to develop an astonishing and intimate practice. In the resounding fluidity of her paintings, Kohlmann maps the lineaments and concavities of embodied moments with exquisite sensitivity, celebrating a sensuality freed from analysis and disabusing gender and the human body of their exhausted mythologies.

We’re pleased to announce WATERCOLORS, a survey of an artist working intuitively to generate representative possibilities that are playfully otherworldly and resolutely, thrillingly free.

WATERCOLORS is available today exclusively on our webshop and everywhere else on April 2nd.

To celebrate the release, we’re offering 200 books with a limited edition 8″ × 8″ silkscreen print, hand-selected by the artist. Each print uses an eleven-color process beautifully reproduced on 250gsm Stonehenge paper by our friends at Du-Good Press. All prints are signed and numbered and will ship along with the book.

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21/02/2024

🎻 We are beyond excited to be releasing TRAVELS OVER FEELING—a landmark publication celebrating the life and work of Arthur Russell, assembled by critically-acclaimed writer Richard King and published with Faber Books in the UK. The book collects the extensive ephemera found in Russell’s New York Public Library archive, along with pieces from the personal collections of those who were closest to him. Combining unseen visual material—handwritten scores, lyrics, photos, letters, and drawings—with new texts by King and extensive original interviews with Russell’s collaborators, contemporaries, family, and friends, TRAVELS OVER FEELING paints a portrait of Arthur Russell unlike any which has come before, revealing a true picture of one of the most distinctive artists of the last fifty years.

TRAVELS OVER FEELING is available for preorder now. Available April 16th in stores worldwide.

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29/01/2024

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19/12/2023

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13/12/2023

🧄🫑🧅 In celebration of the fifteen year anniversary of Anthology’s sister company Mexican Summer, BE PATIENT: AN ANTHOLOGY COOKBOOK is a gathering of recipes from nearly fifty artists, authors, and friends of the label and publisher.

Alongside a hand-marbled cover by Maggie Paxton and rich illustrations by Alex Tults, the book invites readers to simmer on recipes as metaphysical meditations, one-sided conversations, introspective musings, and outright rants. From the straightforward to the surreal, from the indecently delicious to the profoundly inedible, BE PATIENT stretches the definition of what we’ve been “cooking” to accommodate the spirit as much as the body.

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***Limited stock through January as we recover from our anniversary events.

21/11/2023

We are truly humbled to announce TRAVELS OVER FEELING — a landmark publication celebrating the life and work of Arthur Russell — curated by critically-acclaimed writer Richard King and published with Faber Books in the UK. Coming this April, the book collects the extensive ephemera found in Russell’s New York Public Library archive, along with pieces from the personal collections of those who were closest to him. Combining unseen visual material — handwritten scores, lyrics, photos, letters, and drawings — with new texts by King and extensive original interviews with Arthur’s collaborators, contemporaries, family, and friends, Travels Over Feeling paints a portrait of Arthur Russell unlike any which has come before, revealing a true picture of one of the most distinctive artists of the last fifty years.

Sign up for our newsletter below to get updates leading up to the release - including a very special event hosted by Faber at the Barbican in London this upcoming May. ✨

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15/11/2023

⭐️ Our annual ​H​OLIDAY SALE starts now​!!! ⭐️
​Get 15-30% discounts on select music, books, and merchandise​ through December 15th.

50% of all proceeds will be donated to the Greenpoint Hunger Program, a non-sectarian emergency food program that provides no-cost groceries and hot meals to hungry people in Brooklyn.

→​ Shop now: https://shop.mexicansummer.com/holiday-sale

27/10/2023

👻 Boo! Use code COVER2COFFIN for 20% off eligible books and records this weekend!
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24/10/2023

"EVIDENCE FOR CONTACT moves briskly through Grimes’s voluminous output of 21st-century work. A few themes emerge: grids, which he fills with black gesso for landscapes that recall a crossword puzzle’s prompt for answers, the fiddly formations of Tetris and early digital animation; binary code, whose zeroes and ones form both ominous data fields and friendly living figures; and an interest in portraiture that appears less about capturing some “truth” of the subject and more about amassing a community of fellow travelers. Asserting the presence of believers in his paintings is also urgent."

—Surface Mag, 2023

Ken Grimes’s EVIDENCE FOR CONTACT is available worldwide today! Explore the endless variations on a cosmic theme produced by a painter singular devoted to the mysteries of extraterrestrial life.

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Ricco/Maresca Gallery

12/10/2023

🙃 Keep that frown upside down. Anthology Recordings returns to the world of Sad About the Times with a new suite of limited, color vinyl editions of …STILL SAD (first-time vinyl pressing) and SAD ABOUT THE TIMES alongside a limited-edition shirt designed by Anthology friend and Sad world builder Brian Blomerth.

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05/10/2023

“This book, like the art practice it documents, is a testament to those possibilities, but it is also a reassurance: even if, despite the overwhelming odds, the aliens do not exist among the star fields of the cosmos, they have found a home in the works of Ken Grimes.”
— Seth Shostak (Senior Astronomer, SETI)

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The paintings of Ken Grimes are strikingly honest, deceptively simple, and decidedly interstellar. Over several decades, Grimes has developed his singular style—using text, numbers, outer space iconography, and geometric shapes painted primarily in stark black and white—to prompt his audience to consider the possibilities and implications of alien contact with earth. We’re excited to unveil EVIDENCE FOR CONTACT, a catalog of the endless variations on a theme produced by an absolutely unique painter during a lifetime devoted to the mysteries of extraterrestrial life.

EVIDENCE FOR CONTACT is available exclusively on our webshop today. Worldwide on Oct. 24th.
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Ricco/Maresca Gallery

19/09/2023

🔮🌲 In 1973, artist and illustrator Ed Emberley had been prolifically creating children’s books for more than a decade when he conceived his most ambitious project to date. SUPPOSE YOU MET A WITCH, featuring Emberley’s signature style at its most lavish, is considered by many to be the beloved artist’s masterpiece. Sadly, the book was not a big hit at the time, and has gone on to become one of the hardest-to-find works in Emberley’s catalogue. We are delighted to have the chance to reintroduce it to a new audience.

Packed with extraordinary imagery and rich with visual wit, SUPPOSE YOU MET A WITCH lets us all experience what it must be like to be under a witch’s spell. Reissued for the first time since 1973, the book uses Ian Serraillier’s striking poem and Ed Emberley’s psychedelic illustrations to show us what happens when two clever and resourceful children encounter a witch in the darkest part of the wood.

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23/08/2023

🪰 Couldn't make it out to the LA Art Book Fair this year and swooning over our new CF GYMNASIUM long sleeve shirts?
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We have a limited quantity available now on our webshop!

The acclaimed artist CF, who brought his panoramic, technomythic dreamworlds to the Anthology banner via the celebrated and sought-after publications PIERROT ALTERATIONS (2018) and WILLIAM SOFTKEY AND THE PURPLE SPIDER (2020), returns to the fold this summer with the freshly designed GYMNASIUM shirt. Featuring new art screenprinted in magenta on black heavy-weight longsleeves, the shirt carries on CF’s practice of vanguard character design and boldly subversive high art fantasia.

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07/08/2023

🌴​ ​LOS ANGELES! 🌴 We’re so psyched to be participating in the return of this year’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair scheduled to take place August 10-13, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Come find us at table H7 for some fun fair exclusives! 👀

Printed Matter, Inc.

25/07/2023

🛸 "Could the moon be hollow? Could it be an alien construction? Might aliens be living there now? Possibly. Possibly." - Jack Womack

FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL is on sale now: https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/197411-jack-womack-flying-saucers-are-real 👽🛸🪐☄️🔭

24/07/2023

: Catherine RIBEIRO + ALPES - N°2 Âme Debout Paix 🎧

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg79Tg9buO8

21/07/2023

⚓️ A NOTE ON THE ARTWORK

The lines and brush strokes of Elizabeth Peyton light up a world where at times fluorescent colors sit on top of our natural dimness as if to suggest the color of feeling—the spell work of the inner eye.

It is a world in which history lives right next to the present, where fiction neighbors the factual, the dead walking the same hallways as the living. There’s an immaculate fascination and empathy with them all. An inherent romantic will that insists on giving the necessary attention to what matters, at once operatic and tender in its scope.

One thing that always captured me in Elizabeth’s portraits are the eyes of her subjects. It’s as if the world outside the frame of the canvas is somehow mirrored—a drawing with an inner life. It can be gazed into, in the same way that people can be gazed into. Here, the story arches further than what’s on the page. The fairytales are real because we say so.

- E. B. R. Jan. 2023 ⚔️

⚓️ SUNKEN HEIGHTS by Elias B. Rønnenfelt is available now.

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