This year, Donovan celebrates the 60th anniversary of his remarkable career. 2025 also happens to be the 50th anniversary of Govinda Gallery, where we first presented Donovan’s extraordinary exhibition Sapphographs. Our first celebration of Govinda’s 50th is to present Donovan’s remarkable The Tale of the Gael, as mentioned in Variety magazine’s feature story yesterday on “A […]
Christmas card by Stuart Sutcliffe, 1960. Painter and original bass player for The Beatles.
Enjoy this story and photographs in The Georgetowner about Bob Dylan, Ted Russell, and Govinda Gallery! Govinda Gallery, 1310 Kitchen & Bar Host Bob Dylan Presentation By The Georgetowner • November 12, 2024 By Daisy Bateman Chris Murray of Govinda Gallery and Jenn Crovato of 1310 Kitchen & Bar. Photo by Daisy Bateman. As anticipation for Bob […]
Tomorrow is the 50th Anniversary of the great blues man Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup‘s passing. This portrait of Arthur was taken by Dick Waterman, who recently passed on, and is included in the book I edited of Waterman’s photographs and stories, Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive. Arthur Crudup, Melbourne, Australia, […]
Keith 1981, vintage photograph by Michael Halsband Govinda Gallery first exhibited Michael Halsband’s photographs in 1982 not long after this brilliant portrait of Keith was taken. That exhibition at Govinda, “Michael Halsband, Portrait Photography,” opened on April 23rd, 1982. Michael introduced me to Keith on his birthday in 1981 backstage after a Stones gig in […]
Alfred Wertheimer would be 94 today. He took the finest photos ever of a rock star… they happen to be of Elvis Presley in 1956. It was my great pleasure to be the editor of Alfred’s four books of his photographs of Elvis Presley, as well as my collaborating with Alfred as the curator of […]
Dublin was abuzz with Bruce Springsteen in town for three sold out shows at RDS Arena earlier this month. Photographer and special assistant to Donovan, Lawson Slater, told me that “excitement was in the air.” Donovan was in Dublin on May 4th to be a special guest for a show at Dublin’s Olympia Theater. Bruce […]
Photo by Lawson Slater Today is Donovan’s birthday, and I celebrate it with this terrific photograph of Donovan and his wife Linda last weekend with Bruce Springsteen in Dublin. Donovan said, “It was wonderful for Linda and I to visit Bruce yesterday, at his soundcheck in Dublin, and to hear from him, that my music […]
Kate Simon took this wonderful photograph of John Lydon ’skanking’ in Kingston, in 1979. It looks like a warm day in Jamaica. We are thinking of John here today at Govinda Gallery as his partner of five decades, Nora Forster, just passed. I was delighted to present for the first time, at Govinda Gallery, Kate […]