"Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts" (1996)

Los Angeles, California, US: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and New York City: Thames and Hudson (book, exhibition catalogue), 1996.
11.75" x 8.875" x 0.625", 192 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-500-97435-7.

Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek with an afterword by William S. Burroughs, as co-published by LACMA (Los Angeles, California, US) and by Thames and Hudson (New York City and London) in 1996. This was produced as a catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art between 18 July and 6 October 1996.

This contains a number of essays, artwork and quotes by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and Burroughs-centered artwork by others. Edited by Chris Keledjian. Designed by Scott Taylor. Photography by Barbara Lyter. Foreword by Andrea L. Rich.

This specific copy is signed by William S. Burroughs and was acquired from Beat Scene publisher Kevin Ring (Binley Woods, England).

Shoaf II.356.
Schottlaender v4.B23.A.

Selected Contents: 

• Alison Van Pelt: "William Burroughs" (photograph, 1992)
• William S. Burroughs: 
• "Invisible Ink" (afterword)
• "untitled" (art, 1992)
• "Traveller on the Yellow Wave" (painting/collage, 1982)
• "untitled [William S. Burroughs, Kells Elvins]" (photographs, c.1954)
• "Call" (painting, 1991)
• dust jacket of The Naked Lunch, 1959
• dust jacket for The Soft Machine, 1966
• "Portrait of Jack Black – Narrator of You Can't Win and Salt Chunk Mary" (painting, 1992)
• "Wind Hand Caught in the Door" from Rhinozeros #5 (prose)
• "To Be Read Every Which Way" from The Third Mind, 1965
• "untitled [Allen Ginsberg]" (photographs, c.1954)
• "Birdie Does the Watching" (art, c.1964)
• "Sturdy Steel Snap-Tight" (art, 1964)
• "Time" (collages, 1965)
• "Danger Ahead" (three column prose, 1965)
• "The Dead Star" from My Own Mag, #13, August 1965
• "The Dead Star" (Nova Broadcast, #5, 1969)
•  "Sore Shoulder" (shotgun art, 1982)
• "Escape from Centipede Thoughts" (collage/painting, 1982)
• "Screaming Ghost" (painting, 1982)
• "Ten Gauge City" (painting, 1988)
• "Wood Spirits" (painting/collage, 1987)
• "Mink Mutiny" (collage/painting, 1987)
• "The Curse of Bast" (collage/painting, 1987)
• "Fire Door" (painting, 1987)
• "Space Door" (painting, 1987)
• "Brightness Falls from the Air" (painting, 1988)
• "Shot Sheriff" (painting, 1992)
• "Underwater" (painting, 1989)
• "untitled" (painting, 1992)
• "Rub Out the Word" (painting, 1989)
• "untitled" (assemblage, 1992)
• "The Door in the Mountain Side through Which the Piper Led the Children of Hamelin" (painting, 1992)
• "The Flag I" (painting, 1989)
• "The Alleys of Marrakech" (painting, 1993)
• "Crazy Man" (painting, 1988)
• "Research Animal" (painting, 1989)
• "The Hole in His Head Is Big" (painting, 1992)
• "Black Lemur 30,000,000 Years Old" (painting, 1992)
• "Creation of the Homunculus IV" (painting, 1989)
• "Joy Rider to Nowhere. Last Ride by a Viking Priest" (painting/collage, 1993)
• "Four Celestial Babies" (painting, 1992)
• "Christmas Cheer" (painting, 1989)
• "Alien Penetration" (painting, 1992)
• "The Kindly Old General Practitioner" (painting, 1992)
• "Terminal Drug Psychosis" (painting, 1989)
• "Last Chance Junction and Curse on Drug Hysterics" (painting/collage, 1988)
• "Thick Pages #8" (painting, 1990)
• "Thick Pages #9" (painting, 1990)
• "Animated Tassels" (painting, 1992)
• "Attila the Hun" (painting, 1992)
• "Ghost of Chance 15 (The Bridge)" (painting, 1989)
• "Silver Boys" (painting, 1987)
• "For the Angel of Death Spread His Wings" (painting, 1993)
• "Woman as Man" (painting, 1988)
• "Envy" (painting from The Seven Deadly Sins, 1992)
• "Gluttony" (painting from The Seven Deadly Sins, 1992)
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin:
• "untitled [William Vacates Rooms]" (photographs/collage, c.1965)
• "All God's Children Got Time" (scrapbook pages, c.1971-73)
• pages from the "Green Scrapbook", c. 1971-73
• "All God's Children Got Space" (scrapbook pages, 1971-73)
• pages from the "Red Scrapbook", c. 1966-73
• pages from the "Black Scrapbook", c. 1963-64
• dust jacket from The Third Mind
• "untitled [Rub Out the Word]" (art, 1965)
• "untitled [The Present Shape of Words]" (art, 1965)
• "untitled [Breathe in the Words]" (art, 1965)
• "Permutations" (art, collage, 1965)
• "Scrapbooks" (collage, 1965)
• "untitled [The Nova Express]" (collage, 1965)
• "The Big Survey" (collage, 1965)
• "The Death of Mrs. D." (collage, 1965)
• "untitled [William Buys a Parrot]" (collage, 1965)
• "untitled [William and the Captain]" (collage, 1965)
• "untitled [Doctor Zeit M.D.]" (collage/prose, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Bubble Trouble]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Another Goal]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Girl]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Primrose Path ?]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [The Energy of a Hurricane]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Tornado Dead: 223]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [W. R. Hearst Jr.]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Plan Drug Addiction]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "untitled [Projection Performance]" (collage, c. 1965)
• "Dreamachine" (collage, c. 1965)
• "The Cut-Ups" (art, 1964)
• "The Third Mind Cut-Up" (collage/painting, 1976)
• Brion Gysin: 
• "Francis in the Beat Hotel" (painting, 1962)
• dust-jacket illustration for The Exterminator, 1960
• dust-jacket illustration for The Soft Machine, 1961
• "Décalcomanie" (painting, 1941)
• "I Am That I Am" (painting, 1961)
• "untitled" (painting, 1959)
• "Naked Lunch" (painting, 1960)
• "Electronic Revolution" (print, 1971)
• "untitled" (from The Cat Inside, 1986)
• Andrea L. Rich: Foreword
• Robert A. Sobieszek: 
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• "Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts":
• "I. Break Through in Grey Room" (essay)
• "II. Rub Out the Word Forever" (essay)
• "III. Terminal Documents" (essay)
• "IV. Any Old Photo Will" (essay)
• "V. A Silent Language of Juxtaposition" (essay)
• "VI. Scrapbook Experiments" (essay)
• "VII. Who Is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?" (essay)
• "VIII. Flicker Vision" (essay)
• "IX. Image Warfare" (essay)
• "X. Repatterning Machines" (essay)
• "XI. Doors of Chance" (essay)
• "XII. The Picture Between Your Ears" (essay)
• "XIII. Color Comics" (essay)
• "XIV: ¿Quien Es?" (essay)
• "XV. El Hombre Invisible" (essay)
• Annie Liebovitz: "William Burroughs" (photographs)
• Loomis Dean: "William S. Burroughs at the Beat Hotel" (photograph, 1959)
• Claude Pélieu: frontispiece illustration to Minutes to Go
• Andy Warhol: "William S. Burroughs" (photograph, 1980)
• Stéphane Mallarmé: page from Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard, 1897
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• page from "I Beg You Come Back and Be Cheerful", 1959
• "Burroughs and Friends, Hotel Muniria, Tangier" (photograph, 1961)
• Emmett Williams: from "Introduction to a Selection from 5,000 New Ways", 1966
• Marcel Duchamp: 
• "Rendez-vous du dimanche 6 février 1916 à 1 h. 3/4 après-midi" (typescript)
• "Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics)" (assemblage, 1925)
• J. G. Ballard: page from "Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy" from Ambit #31, 1966
• Robert Heinecken: "Time Magazine" (art, 1969)
• Hannah Höch: "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany" (collage, 1919-20)
• Georges Hugnet: "Vous devez être fière de la robe" (collage/print, 1936) 
• John McHale: "Why I Took to the Washers in Luxury Flats" (collage, 1954)
• John Baldessari: "Blasted Allegories (Colorful Sentences): Worried Appeal Cycle... (Six Sentences Sharing Circular Green Intersection)" (photographs, 1978)
• Robert Rauschenberg: "Factum I" (mixed media, 1957)
• Ian Sommerville: 
• "William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin" (photograph diptych, 1962)
• dust-jacket for William S. Burroughs' The Ticket That Exploded, 1962
• François Lagarde: "The Three Minds" (photo triptych, 1978)
• Charles Gatewood: "The Dream Machine" (photograph, 1973)
• Michael English: poster for International Times, 1966
• Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville: "Dreamachine" (machine, recreated in 1994 by David Woodard)
• The Hafler Trio and Tee Temple Ov Psychick Youth: "Brion Gysin's Dreamachine" (cover art, 1989)
• Antony Balch: 
• "William S. Burroughs" (film still, c. 1963)
• "Towers Open Fire" (frame sequence, 1963)
• Conrad Rooks: "Chappaqua" (film still, 1967)
• Gus Van Sant: 
• "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (film stills, 1990)
• cover illustration for The Elvis of Letters, 1985
• Robert Smithson: "Spiral Jetty" (frame sequence, 1970)
• Peter Christopherson: cover of Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, 1981
• Robert Mapplethorpe: 
• "William Burroughs" (photograph, 1979)
• record album photography for Sugar, Alcohol, and Meat, 1980
• Mark Trunz: cover photography for The 'Priest' They Called Him, 1992
• Robert Wilson: cover illustration for The Black Rider, 1993
• Kate Simon: 
• cover photography for Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, 1993
• "William S. Burroughs" (photograph, 1984)
• Max Ernst: "Bird Marriage" (painting, 1925)
• Jackson Pollock: "untitled" (painting, 1945)
• Mark Tobey: "Multiple Moments in Space" (painting, 1959)
• Jean Dubuffet: "Bowery Bums" (drawing, 1951)
• Niki de Saint Phalle: "Tir de Bob Rausch" (assemblage, 1961)
• Jacques de la Villeglé: "Metro Saint-Germain, 2 septembre 1964" (collage, 1964)
• David Bradshaw: 
• "William Burroughs with My Smith and Wesson Model 629" (print, 1986)
• "Blue Sharpshooter" (print from Propagation Hazard, 1993)
• William S. Burroughs, Philip Taaffe, and Diego Cortez: "The Red Skull (a.k.a. The Red Death)" (painting/assemblage, 1987)
• Paul Klee: "Tree Nursery" (painting, 1929)
• William S. Burroughs and Robert Rauschenberg: "American Pewter with Burroughs V" (print, 1981)
• Howard Buchwald: illustration in The Streets of Chance, 1981
• Robert F. Gale: illustration in The Book of Breething, 1974
• Carl Apfelschnitt: "untitled" (illustration from Mummies, 1982)
• George Condo, "untitled" (painting in Ghost of Chance, 1991)
• S. Clay Wilson: "untitled" (drawing from Tornado Alley, 1989)
• William S. Burroughs and Udo Breger: "B.U.D." (print with manuscript, 1990)
• William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring: 
• "untitled" (from Apocalypse, 1988)
• "untitled" (from The Valley, 1989)
• Keith Haring: "For William Burroughs with Love and Admiration" (painting/collage, 1987)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: "Nod" (painting/assemblage, 1985-88)
• William S. Burroughs and Philip Taaffe: "untitled" (painting, 1987)
• William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson: "The Magic Circle" (painting, 1989)
• William S. Burroughs and Dean Ripa: "The Ambiguous Smile of the Tempter" (painting, 1990)
• William S. Burroughs and John Giorno: "That Gun's Got Blood in its Hole" (painting, 1991)
• William S. Burroughs and George Condo: "Every Man for Himself" (painting, 1992)
• William S. Burroughs and Roger Holden: "untitled" (art, 1995)
• Gerard Malanga: "William Burroughs in Front of Burroughs Corporate Headquarters, NYC" (photograph, 1975)
• Les Levine: 
• cover photograph for William S. Burroughs/John Giorno, 1975
• cover design and photography for Totally Corrupt, 1976
• American Thief, a.k.a. Gypsies and Thieves: "Old Man Fit" (print, 1994)
• Herb Ritts: "William S. Burroughs" (photograph, 1990)
• David Wojnarowicz: "Bill Burroughs' Recurring Dream" (collage, 1978)
• Cozette de Charmoy: "untitled" (print, 1976)
• Rick McKee Hock: "Codex (Burroughs)" (print, 1987)
• Walter Dahn: "William Burroughs" (painting, 1989)
• Christof Kohlhofer: 
• "W. S. Burroughs and G.I.'s at the Persian Gulf Getting Ready for Take Off, News of the Day: Mark Twain's Lost Manuscript Found" (mixed media, 1991)
• from Vogue Interzone, 1993 
• Frances Swigart: "Usrulines" (print, 1993)
• Humberto Jardón: "Feliz Cumpleaños" (painting, 1994)
• Ralph Steadman: "Something New Has Been Added" (print, 1995)
• Thomi Wroblewski: "Wild Boys" (painting/collage, 1988)
• Wolf Vostell: dust-jacket photography for Cut Up or Shut Up, 1972
• Steven Twigger: poster for Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, 1991
• Warren Neidich: "Cities of the Red Night" (art, 1984-85)
• John Boskovich: "Portrait of the Artist and His Dog" (photowork, 1989)
• Laurie Anderson; "New York Times (Horizontal), China Times (Vertical) – 1971" (art, 1976)
• Tyler Stallings: "Cyborg Blossoms, Scenes 1-9" (mixed media, 1994)
• Bruce Cannon: "Subjective Object III" (assemblage, 1994)
• Checklist of the Exhibition
• Exhibition History
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Discography
• Lenders to the Exhibition