Graphic Noise

Rock ‘n’ roll was always meant to be heard and seen. While Hip Art That’s Square, a show last year at Goldstein, examined the art of the album cover through the eyes of a local collector, this exhibit, organized by the Museum of Design in Atlanta, focuses on that more public and transient medium, the concert poster. Graphic Noise unrolls the history of rock ‘n’ roll through nearly five hundred posters by nearly 150 artists, spanning decades, genres, and countries, not to mention styles: elegant lithographs, choice moments captured on film, vivid expressionistic exercises, op-art masterpieces, psychedelic paint fits, and computer-assisted imaginations. Appropriately enough, this is a touring show; in our Cities it will be supplemented by the local Post No Bills: Gig Posters of the Twin Cities. 2501 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis; 612-874-3700; www.mcad.edu