Fai-Fain Gramophone

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Fai-Fain Gramophone
Fai-Fain Gramophone
Fai-Fain Gramophone

Fai-Fain Gramophone

Maker (b. 1967, Kaduna, Nigeria)
Date2010
GeographyNigeria, Africa
MediumRecord Player, Raffia Disks with labels, Music by Barmani Choge, Entertainment Center
Dimensionsoverall: 53 in. x 32 1/2 in. 24 in. (134.6 cm x 82.5 cm x 61 cm
ClassificationSCULPTURE
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Dorothy Johnston Towne (Class of 1923) Fund
Object number2019.944
Status
Not on view
RightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Image Not Available for Luggage Labels, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 1"
William Nelson CopleyNancy ReitkopfLetter Edged in Black Press, Inc.
Luggage Labels, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 1"
February 1968
Mariachi Calavera – Nadie debe lamentarse por muerte desus amores, mas bien debe conformarse sabiendo que hasta las flores nacen para marchitarse. (Musicians’ Skeletons – No one should lament the death of a loved one. It is better to be comforted with the knowledge that flowers are born to wilt.)
Carlos Cortez
Mariachi Calavera – Nadie debe lamentarse por muerte desus amores, mas bien debe conformarse sabiendo que hasta las flores nacen para marchitarse. (Musicians’ Skeletons – No one should lament the death of a loved one. It is better to be comforted with the knowledge that flowers are born to wilt.)
1984
Dispossess, from the portfolio "Eight Etchings"
Vincent DaCosta SmithKelly DriscollThe Printmaking WorkshopG.W. Einstein Company, Inc.
Dispossess, from the portfolio "Eight Etchings"
1966 (published 1994)
Image Not Available for Fables with a Twist
Fritz Eichenberg
Fables with a Twist
1976
Image Not Available for Cynocephalus and Co, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 2"
William Nelson CopleyNicolas CalasLetter Edged in Black Press, Inc.
Cynocephalus and Co, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 2"
April 1968
Notes from Tervuren
Radcliffe Bailey
Notes from Tervuren
2012
Notes from Tervuren
Radcliffe Bailey
Notes from Tervuren
2013
What the Rain Says (Ce que dit la Pluie)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What the Rain Says (Ce que dit la Pluie)
1895-96
Image Not Available for Clouds, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 3"
William Nelson CopleyBilly CopleyLetter Edged in Black Press, Inc.
Clouds, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 3"
June 1968
Image Not Available for Seven minute recording of contrapetrie, a surrealist word game, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 2"
William Nelson CopleyMarcel DuchampLetter Edged in Black Press, Inc.
Seven minute recording of contrapetrie, a surrealist word game, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 2"
April 1968
Remembrance of Marcel, from the portfolio "New York Collection for Stockholm"
George SegalStyria Studio, Inc.Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.
Remembrance of Marcel, from the portfolio "New York Collection for Stockholm"
1973
Image Not Available for Astrophysics, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 6"
William Nelson CopleyBernar VenetLetter Edged in Black Press, Inc.
Astrophysics, from the portfolio "S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop), No. 6"
December 1968