Logos features beautiful full-color, psychedelic images alongside Sabelli Alfonso’s prose-poem “How About Moroccan Ambrosia,” Gary Snyder’s mandala-shaped “Passage to More Than India,” Alex Schomburg’s sci-fi tableau, and more. The back cover parodies a traditional newspaper with the prominent headline “Mayor Shot by Dope-Crazed Hippie,” and inside congratulates the reader on getting to page 3, saying “we must confess we never thought you had the brains. Most people at this stage are on page 10 and reading the paper upside down.”

From our 2016 exhibition Realize Your Desires, of which this work was a part: “Following the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1966 which allowed a more tolerant legal climate for publishers, the ‘Underground Press’ emerged as a site for radical commentary and critique in the US, progressing a number of social movements and shifting the cultural landscape at large. Usually published as weeklies – often in large editions – these publications provided a vibrant space for revolutionary ideas which played out on all fronts of politics and culture, addressing head-on a host of issues including the anti-war movement, black power movement, women’s liberation, gay rights, sexual liberation, and drug culture.”