Dominic Umile

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Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY. dominicumile.com

The 3300 HiFi Stereobar designed in 1963 by Verner Panton for Wega-Radio
Tim Lane's "Abolish ICE for Liberty's Sake" poster art features an illustration of a horde of ICE agents scaling, stifling, and trying to arrest the Statue of Liberty
Original Don Heck artwork introducing Iron Man in Tales of Suspense no. 39 (March, 1963)
B&W photo of jazz pianist Bill Evans and his band at Seattle's Penthouse jazz club in the 1960s. (Photo by David Azoze.)
Image of Frank Gehry-designed desk. The desk weighs 15,000 pounds and comes in 16 parts. (Courtesy Freeman’s/Invaluable)
Bonnie MacLean's psychedelic poster art is featured as part of "The Art of Noise" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum — her December 1967 poster for the Byrds, Electric Flag, and B.B. King gigs at the Fillmore and the Winterland Ballroom is one of several works on view
Helen Frankenthaler's "Swan Lake 1" (1961, oil on canvas)
Large-scale Helen Frankenthaler canvases at Yares Art in NYC, which pairs her work with sculptor Anthony Caro’s (on view until July 11)
Poster by Milton Glaser for the 52nd issue of the Push Pin Graphic
Arthur "Weegee" Fellig's b&w photograph of hundreds of thousands of beachgoers from a lifeguard stand at Coney Island. Published in PM on July 22, 1940
B&W photo of John Lennon admiring his portable jukebox in 1965
Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken's image of 42nd street in Manhattan (1960), woman with dog in foreground, people on sidewalk, movie theater marquee w/ 'Psycho' in background
Salvador Dalí's moody cover art for the June 1, 1939 issue of Vogue magazine. Feminine form in foreground with flower bouquet for a head, ghostly figure skipping rope, remains of a ship in background
B&W photo by Ron Rakow, Grateful Dead posing on Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA, 1967
Reynold Ruffins 1975 illustration for Cosmopolitan
A pre-New York magazine version of New York magazine (!) featuring Milton Glaser's psychedelic artwork for Tom Wolfe's reporting on LSD. This illustration would later be used for the cover of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid test
Milton Glaser's California-themed cover for the November 7, 1969, issue of Time. Courtesy Milton Glaser, Inc., and archives.sva.edu
Cover, Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy book by Lisa MacKinney
Illustration by Moses Lee of actors Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in the roles as WaPo investigative reporters in 1976's All the President's Men
1974 ad in Ebony for Southern Comfort features The Awakening (Black Jazz label, spiritual jazz ensemble)
Buddy Esquire's flyer design for an event at Harlem World in 1981 is indicative of the influence that Art Deco had on the young artist
Flyers designed by PHASE 2 circa early 1980s for events at Earth's Edge and Ecstasy Garage Disco
Cover, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 (Tim Lawrence, 2004, Duke University Press)
Buddy Esquire flyer art for event at P.A.L., Dec. 8, 1979. Via Cornell University Library's flyer collection
Derry Girls episode that sees them (attempt to) check out Fatboy Slim live. Regardless they arrive in style
Sloppy Heads performing a set of total bangers at Mama Tried, June 2026
Black and white photo by James Moore of four models from the Spring/Summer 1966 Yves Saint Laurent haute couture collection. Published in Harper's Bazaar, March, 1966
Original Milton Glaser ink & adhesive film illustration for Tom Wolfe's 'The World of LSD' reporting, which ran in New York magazine's 'World Journal Tribune Supplement' and was later also used for the book cover of Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
Detail, album cover for 'A Love Supreme' by John Coltrane. Portrait of John Coltrane by Bob Thiele
Per the Guardian: "Hysterical (Beatles) fans wait outside the Cow Palace, Daly City, California," photo by Jim Marshall
The Beatles and Ralph Gleason having tea in 1966. Photo by Jim Marshall
Via writer Jérôme Schmidt’s IG account, a visit to a jazz kissa called Bikitan in Akita city, Japan — interior of the kissa, man standing in front of a wall of jazz and blues records that number in the tens of thousands
Original interior, ca. 1948, of the last remaining "bubble house"—one of a number of experimental homes designed by Southern California architect Wallace Neff to address postwar housing shortages. Photo by Maynard L. Parker via The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Exhibition view at NYC’s Martos Gallery, art that Keith Haring made on a Commodore computer in 1987 (crappy photo by me)
B&W photo, stairwell, Sonny Rollins, Apollo Theater, New York, 1962. © Steve Schapiro Archive
Perennial band live in Brooklyn, May 16th, 2026
From Harper’s Bazaar: Variant of The Wonders of Water 1959 Platinum print, ca. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and EricHimmel, 2025 © Estate of Lillian Bassman
Vinyl album cover, Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1973, Fantasy Records). Cover features color portrait photograph of Adderley looming into camera with handful of playing cards
Raymond Pettibon’s cover art for Black Flag’s Jealous Again EP (SST, 1980)
Chuck D. and JD Samson on protest music at NYU panel 4/21/26, which was moderated by PE cofounder / inaugural Def Jam pres Bill Stephney, and introduced by the school's Nick Sansano. Still image of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" video in the background
Free performance at sunset on 4/17 from Laraaji at the Whitney in NYC
Hyper-psychedelic illustrations from NYC artist Brian Blomerth's graphic novel Bicycle Day (Anthology, 2019). Blomerth's book is "a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s first acid trip."
Awesome flyer for Record Grouch's day of free live music and art. On 4/18, this year's lineup features Emily Robb + Richie Charles, Anthony Pasquarosa, and more (artists will be selling their own merch)—runs approx. 1–6PM EST—Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Drummer Daniel Villarreal leading a trio onstage in Brooklyn at Public Records on 4/10/26
Tenor saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter in the studio. Photography by Francis Wolff/Blue Note Records
Via Jazz Kissa Basie Film Partners, interior, the jazz kissa Basie in Ichinoseki