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01-26-12 - WHOLE EARTH CATALOG @ THE ICA AT MAINE COLLEGE OF ART

Daniel Fuller, director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at MECA has done the city of Portland, Maine a great service. Knowing our heady, heady roots and general earthiness, he saw fit to bring the Whole Earth Catalog compiled by MoMA here to the Northlands.

Don’t take it from me, take it from MoMA:

In 1968, Stewart Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog. Brand’s goals were to make a variety of tools accessible to newly dispersed counterculture communities, back-to-the-land households, and innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture, and to create a community meeting-place in print. The catalog quickly developed into a wide-ranging reference for new living spaces, sustainable design, and experimental media and community practices. After only a few years of publication it exploded in popularity, becoming a formidable cultural phenomenon.

This is a guaranteed ear-steamer and it opens TONIGHT! Appropriately, a concurrent show by Maine-born and bred Michael Smith-Bell — of Upside Down Fireplace fame — is in the gallery this evening as well. GET THERE.