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A Tribute to Alex Steinweiss, The Creator of the Album Cover, opens today at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica. In 1939, during the era of 78 rpm discs, Steinweiss revolutionized how record albums were sold by inventing the illustrated album jacket. At the time he worked for Columbia Records, a struggling label based in Bridgeport, CT. Previously albums were shelved in shops with only the spine lettering exposed. Steinweiss’s vivacious color illustrations inspired…

Fantagraphics has posted photos from the September 22 opening of the Flora exhibit. So has Ward Jenkins. (Who also journals.) And David Lasky. The exhibit runs through October 24. (Note: Flora co-archivist Barbara Economon could not attend the opening due to a family emergency.)

The cover of the Weekly, anyway (print edition, September 19-25 issue), in conjunction with the just-opened exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. The illustration is a detail from Flora’s 1954 RCA Victor LP cover Shorty Rogers Courts the Count. The Weekly’s Fall Arts section includes this nifty Flora cavalcade and a dozen interior spot placements:

Pencil sketch, ca. 1988-1991. Purpose unknown, but presumably an invitation to some festiveness at the Flora home. Coincidentally, the above date marks the opening reception for our Jim Flora exhibit at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. If you’re in Seattle on that date, you’re invited! Exhibit runs thru October 24 and features original paintings, fine art prints, woodcut relief prints, record covers, music ephemera, and Little Man Press artifacts.

Barbara and I will be curating the first Jim Flora art exhibit since—well, since the artist’s memorial service in 1998. The exhibit, named after our second book, “The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora,” takes place at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. The exhibit will run from September 22 through October 24. The Florafest will include original paintings, fine art prints, woodcut relief prints, record covers, music ephemera, and Little Man Press artifacts. There will also be…