Painter and musician, Mark Giaimo, opened his exhibition of new paintings “Between Rock and A Hard Place”, last Friday at Susan Calloway Gallery in Georgetown. It was a packed house. Susan Calloway invited Govinda Gallery to include a selection of notable photographs of musical artists as part of the exhibition and to accompany […]
Last Wednesday, I went to see Johnny Marr at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland. Well known for his years as The Smiths‘ guitarist and co-songwriter, I became more interested in The Smiths and Marr from Nalinee Darmrong’s book of photographs, The Smiths, published by Rizzoli. I went on to organize an exhibition of […]
I was stunned to hear last night that Paul Allen passed away. Paul, who co-founded Microsoft, created the Experience Music Project museum (now called the Museum of Pop Culture) in Seattle. He was inspired by the musical artistry of Jimi Hendrix to establish the museum. It was a great honor for me to […]
This photo was taken by Leroy Woodson Jr. in October of 1971 at the opening of Yoko Ono‘s exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, around the time of Lennon’s 31st birthday. Photographer Leroy Woodson Jr. passed away in February of 2015. Enjoy this recording of Janis Joplin singing happy birthday to […]
Max Lakin wrote a front page story in The New York Times Arts section today about photographer Jonathan Mannion’s amazing exhibition at The Compound gallery in the South Bronx. Lakin in The NY Times story writes: “Mr. Mannion has been something of hip-hop’s house photographer since the ’90s, when he shot the cover of […]