Drag City will honor David Berman with an art show in Chicago
Songs Build Little Rooms in Time will feature art from Friedrich Kunath and a Cassie Berman performance.
The artist Friedrich Kunath published a book in 2013 featuring photographs and reproductions of his art paired with new David Berman lines left over from his writing for Silver Jews. Berman and Kunath had again been working together on a new project when Berman died in August, according to his label Drag City and as Pitchfork notes. The two had “would find things to show and tell between themselves and in the process, create a collaborative show.” The show—called Songs Build Little Rooms in Time after a Purple Mountains lyric— will now go on without Berman, though in his honor, and with plenty of his material. It will feature Kunath material inspired by Berman, and a performance by Berman’s former bandmate and wife Cassie Berman. It’s at December 7, at Drag City’s Soccer Club Club in Chicago.