In The News: Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Barrick Museum gives orphaned Zine Library a new home for trove of DIY delights. After languishing for close to a year-and-a-half in a closet following the closure of The Beat Coffeehouse & Records, the Las Vegas Zine Library has finally found a new home in the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum.
In the slow evenings of his valet shifts in 2003, Las Vegas Zine Library co-founder Jeffrey Grindley spent night after night cutting and pasting blocks of text and images together. He’d been a collector of zines for a few years, but this was his first time creating his own from scratch.
The unlikeliest Vegas trend in 2016, besides poke bowls and making your own flip flops, might just be public art.
You probably don’t think about the oil that makes your personal transportation possible whenever you start your car — or pull up to the pump to refuel.