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2011

  • Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area

    09/17/2010 - 03/31/2011

    In celebration of the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-2000 the Pacific Film Archive and San Francisco Cinematheque present a landmark exhibition of experimental film and video.

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  • Abstract Expressionism and Film

    Abstract Expressionism and Film

    02/13/2011 - 04/23/2011

    Location: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

    Short Description: MOMA presents six programs of films inspired by the New York School in conjunction with the Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition.

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  • Special Issue of Bombay Gin

    Special Issue of Bombay Gin

    03/01/2011

    The Naropa Press’ journal Bombay Gin devotes a special issue to the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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  • Victoria Cafe designated as Historic Site

    Victoria Cafe designated as Historic Site

    04/01/2011

    Location: Elk Cree Café, Millheim, PA

    For the first time a building has been designated as historic because of its connection to the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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  • New Directions in Animation: Harry Smith and Storm de Hirsch

    New Directions in Animation: Harry Smith and Storm de Hirsch

    04/25/2011

    Location: Columbia City Theater, Seattle, WA

    The University of Chicago presents an evening of avant-garde films from the 1960s including Heaven and Earth Magic, Peyote Queen and Third Eye Butterfly.

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  • Harry Smith, Unpublished Footage

    Harry Smith, Unpublished Footage

    05/25/2011

    Location: Roy O Disney Theater, CalArts, Valencia, CA

    The Pompidou center hosts a screening of Early Abstractions accompanied by rare footage.

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  • Harry Smith Program

    Harry Smith Program

    05/26/2011

    Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Anthology Film Archives presents an evening of films by Harry Smith, including Early Abstractions, Mirror Animations, Late Superimpositions and Oz, The Tin Woodman’s Dream.

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  • Harry Smith: 'The Paracelsus of the Chelsea Hotel'

    Harry Smith: 'The Paracelsus of the Chelsea Hotel'

    05/28/2011

    Mara Goldwyn contributes the essay “Harry Smith: ‘The Paracelsus of the Chelsea Hotel” to Network Awesome.

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  • The Unfinished Film

    The Unfinished Film

    06/24/2011 - 07/29/2011

    Location: Saint Paul, MN

    Curated by Thomas Beard, The Unfinished Film includes works by Harry Smith, Ken Jacobs, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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  • Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

    Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

    07/28/2011

    Location: Max Palevsky Cinema, University of Chicago

    The Barbican Art Gallery includes Heaven and Earth Magic in its exhibition Watch Me Move: The Animation Show.

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  • Visions: Animation and Abstraction

    Visions: Animation and Abstraction

    08/10/2011

    Location: Pompidou Center, Paris France

    The Northwest Film Forum, Sprocket Society and Third Eye Cinema present Visions: Animation and Abstraction, 1908 to 1994 a series of experimental animation masterworks.

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  • Silent Film Night: Heaven and Earth Magic

    Silent Film Night: Heaven and Earth Magic

    08/18/2011

    Location: Anthology Film Archives, New York

    APK Live presents a screening of Heaven and Earth Magic with live musical accompaniment by Ian Doig Phaneuf (A Person Disguised as People), Patrick Cahill (The riderless) and Jeremy Ive (A Priori, Exit 2012).

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  • The Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    The Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    10/07/2011 - 10/16/2011

    Location: The Gladstone Gallery, New York

    The Warsaw Film Festivals presents Rani Singh’s documentary The Old Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.

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  • Visionary Animation

    Visionary Animation

    11/01/2011

    Location: Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

    The BFI presents Visionary Animation, a series of films by influential American experimental animators.

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  • 4th Annual Harry Smith Festival

    4th Annual Harry Smith Festival

    11/06/2011

    Location: Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington

    Elk Creek Café and Ale Works and Chicken Tractor Deluxe host the 4th Annual Harry Smith Festival with bands performing music from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Proceeds will benefit the Penns Valley Hope Fund.

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  • Filmmaker's Cooperative Benefit Concert

    Filmmaker's Cooperative Benefit Concert

    11/16/2011

    Location: APK Live, London, Ontario

    The Filmmaker’s Cooperative hosts a benefit featuring live musical performances by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson and a screening of films by Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and others.

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  • A Tribute to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    A Tribute to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    11/25/2011

    Location: Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland

    American Standard Time, Ball of Wax and the Seattle Folk Festival present “A Tribute to Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.”

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  • Anthology of American Folk Music inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame

    Anthology of American Folk Music inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame

    12/01/2011

    Anthology of American Folk Music inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame.

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    The Harry Smith @ 100 festivities continue as we j The Harry Smith @ 100 festivities continue as we join our dear friends at @smithsonianfolkways to celebrate 75 years since the iconic independent label Folkways Records was founded by Marian Distler & Moses Asch in New York City! 

First up, on July 6th you can see a screening of Harry’s “Early Abstractions” as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The program is free and open to the public! Check out @smithsonianfolkways page for more details about the festival. 🎶🪕🎶
    On this very day, 100 years ago, one of the most u On this very day, 100 years ago, one of the most unique characters to ever grace this planet was born. Whether through his paintings, his records, his collages, his films, his work as a shaman, his many collections, or his persnickety attitude, Harry Everett Smith left an indelible mark on underground culture. 

With the many events and exhibitions celebrating his life this year, we hope that a new generation will be able to appreciate and be inspired by his many contributions.

HAPPY 100 HARRY! 

📷: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Trust
    Beth Orton’s rendition of ‘Frankie’ Beth Orton’s rendition of ‘Frankie’
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    Happy 100th birthday Harry Smith! Celebrating @abc Happy 100th birthday Harry Smith! Celebrating @abconcerts Paper airplanes strewn about, welling guests for three days of events. #harrysmith@100
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    An ode to Harry Smiths “Anthology of American Fo An ode to Harry Smiths “Anthology of American Folk Music” @shovel_dance_collective takes it to the next level!
    A capella encore from Shover Dance Collective. A capella encore from Shover Dance Collective.
    Venediktus Tempelboom at Harry Smith celebration. Venediktus Tempelboom at Harry Smith celebration. Passion and intensity coming from his 12 string guitar! #harrysmith@100
    Harry Smith@100!! Get ready Brussels! Concerts, fi Harry Smith@100!! Get ready Brussels! Concerts, films, talk and more. May 28/29
    Just in time for Harry’s 100th birthday at the e Just in time for Harry’s 100th birthday at the end of the month, we are so proud to see that his story and accomplishments have finally been added to the venerable @britannica where it will live until the end of the Internet. 

Image: Harry Smith, photographed by Allen Ginsberg in Ginsberg’s kitchen, c. 1980s

📷 Courtesy of Harry Smith Archives. Photograph copyright Allen Ginsberg Estate
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    John Szwed's “Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times John Szwed's “Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith” 

@anthologyfilmarchives Tuesday April 18th at 7:30 pm. 

For the last four years John Szwed has been tracing the life of Harry Smith. Smith was a witness and a player in a period that began in the 1940s, unfolded in the ’50s, and exploded in the ’60s, and that brought about major revolutions in the arts, the social sciences, and in society itself. 

“Cosmic Scholar” will be published in August 2023 

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    This series of fascinating and fastidious Typewrit This series of fascinating and fastidious Typewriter Drawings is oft-overlooked when considering the body of Harry's work. From what we know, these were created between the 1970s and the 1980s.

Note the stationary from the Hotel Breslin in the last slide, which is now the Ace Hotel. Harry lived at the Breslin from 1977-1985. 
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    For our friends in and around Brussels, Belgium! For our friends in and around Brussels, Belgium!

Via @abconcerts :

This year marks the 100th anniversary of visual artist, experimental filmmaker, musicologist, graphic designer, bohemian, anthropologist and record collector Harry Smith (°1923). That’s why AB is hosting a celebration of his master collector piece ‘Anthology Of American Folk Music’ over the course of three days. This collection is widely acknowledged as the bible for American folk music and features 84 songs, all recorded between 1927 and 1932. In the late 90’s the compilation album even received a Grammy Award for ‘Best Historical Album’. Rolling Stone described ‘The Anthology’ as ‘One of the greatest releases of all time!’ His fanbase? Beck. Beth Orton. Bob Dylan. Elvis Costello. Jack White. Jeff Tweedy (Wilco). And: Nick Cave, who borrowed both ‘Stagger Lee’ and ‘Henry Lee’ from ‘The Anthology’.

That’s plenty of reason for an elaborate tribute on the day Harry Smith would have turned 100 years old. AB is inviting some exquisite musical guests such as Meskerem Mees, Mount Eerie, Sam Amidon (w/ special guest Beth Orton), The Golden Glows, Mike Gangloff, Shovel Dance Collective and Venediktos Tempelboom. They will collectively dive deep into ‘The Anthology’ and come back up with some personal covers or adaptations of their favourite songs. And some of them will simply tell their story in the spirit of Smith’s work.

Rani Singh (director of the Harry Smith Archives and Harry Smith’s former personal assistant) and Bret Lunsford (author of the recently published book ‘Sounding for Harry Smith’) will join us for a Q&A about the legacy he left behind. The documentary ‘The Old Weird America’ tells the story behind ‘The Anthology’ and pianist Giovanni Di Domenico will improvise muscially to Smith’s short animation films ‘Early Abstractions’.
    Excerpts from a beautiful essay penned by the won Excerpts from a beautiful essay  penned by the wonderful @raymondfoye for @brooklynrail about Harry’s close friend and sometimes rival Jordan Belson. 

Visit brooklynrail.org to read the full essay 🧿

Image: Jordan Belson, untitled, 1952. Hand painted animation still. Watercolor on paper. 5.75 x 7.75 inches. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
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    Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith. A biography by John Szwed!! Publication date is August 22,2023. ⚡️💥🔥⭐️🪐#CosmicScholar #harrysmitharchives
    It’s official! The first solo exhibition of Harr It’s official! The first solo exhibition of Harry Smith‘s groundbreaking work will open at @whitneymuseum this fall on October 4th! We can’t wait to expand some minds and share his idiosyncratic genius with the masses. Link to exhibition details in bio. ⚗️
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    🌲 EVERGREEN🌲 Over 70 years later, Harry’s 🌲 EVERGREEN🌲

Over 70 years later, Harry’s Anthology still rings true, garnering a perfect 10 from @pitchfork 💎 

Link in bio to read the full beautifully-penned and painstakingly researched review from @currincy 
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    Thanks to the wonderful @currincy and the Library Thanks to the wonderful @currincy and the Library of Congress, we now know that Harry’s Anthology of American Folk Music was one of the first records purchased for the White House Record Library in 1973! More shocking perhaps is the implication that Smith & Richard Nixon might’ve shared common ground 😂
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