[or: dec 27, 2016] a post that never finished began:
groups. goals. the single or simple. matters of influence(s) culture or conceit

the book stack 2016
1 provoke
2 studio
3 semina culture. TU
4 in a box Wed 28th
5 emanations Th
6 challenging art Fri 30th 
7 diane arbus revelations Sa
8 flower... Su Jan 1
9 good 70s	Mon Jan 2
Seems it was a planned series of posts... much collected references, along with short impressions. Berman's Semina Culture seems to have been assigned a Tuesday date. Wonder why I never finished the set.

Wallace Berman,(February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976 [50]. Key terms in his work: Semina, a mail art publication published between 1955 and 1964, and Aleph, his long term film making project. It runs only 6 minutes, but took him from 1958 til 1976 to make. Stan Brackhage salvaged the 8mm film with a conversion to 16mm to be shown.

He appeared in Easy Rider (1969). Berman died on his 50th birthday, a prediction from childhood. He was killed by a drunk driver.

Exhibitions:

• Wallace Berman – Visual Music, 2018, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
• Looking for Mushrooms, 2008, Ludwig Museum^[18]
• Trace du Sacre, 2008; Centre Pompidou^[18]
• Los Angeles 1955-1985 2006; Centre Pompidou
• California Modern, 2006; Orange County Museum of Art^[18]
• Subway Series: The New York Yankees and the American Dream, 2004; Bronx Museum of the Arts^[18]
• Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, 2004; Whitney Museum of American Art^[18]
• Solo exhibition: Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1957

links

• City of Degenerate Angels: Wallace Berman, Jazz and Semina in Postwar Los Angeles by Ken D. Allan in Art Journal
• galerie frank elbaz: Wallace Berman estate
• Wallace Berman at Kadist Art Foundation
• Wallace Berman archive page at Ferus Gallery
• https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/wallace-berman-papers-10771/series-8
• https://allenginsberg.org/2021/02/t-f-18-2/
• “Art is Love is God” : Wallace Berman and the Transmission of Aleph, 1956-66
• Schoenthal, Rebecca Kelley Young. North Beach to Haight-Ashbury: Underground Artists and Community in 1950s San Francisco. University of Virginia, Department of Art, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2005-01-01, https://doi.org/10.18130/V38918.
• https://purl.stanford.edu/tb919nh1374/version/1
• Peggy Pacini. “Semina: Wallace Berman’s Art of Dis-/In-semination”. Of Intermediality / De l’intermédialité. Global Modernism Network Symposium, Mantra Mukim; Ulrike Eva Pirker; Birgit van Puymbroeck, Jun 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium. ⟨hal-05381978⟩

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