I probably stared at this record cover hundreds of times after high school everyday when I was 15 and 16.  I was lucky enough a few years later to take video art classes at my undergrad university with the woman who shot the record cover, Tammy Rae Carland.  Along with Bikini Kill, bands like Huggy Bear, Sleater Kinney, Team Dresch, and other bands like Sister George, L7, Seven year Bitch, and even HOLE, were members of a loose network of primarily female musicians who carved a unique niche in the music scene throughout the 90’s.

Flip the record. . .

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Here lies the venerable Robert Rauschenberg, purveyor of quality content-laden Abstract Concrete Expressionism. May he rest in peace.

(above, his Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba II from the Anagrams series).
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Joseph Stalin, commissar of the original “Great Purge,” pre-empts Photoshop with spiffy manual photographic evil: Witness Newmuseum.org’s site, a great beginner’s index of Stalin’s orders to erase various individuals from photographic evidence of his reign.

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