When comedian and actor, Richard Lewis, contacted me about his book project, Reflections from Hell: Richard Lewis’ Guide on How Not to Live, I did not know I was about to meet a genius visual artist named Carl Titolo. It was my good fortune to edit Lewis and Titolo’s book, Reflections from Hell, and to bring it to […]
About to go onstage, Gerde’s Folk City, Greenwich Village. 1961. Photo by Ted Russell. Suze […]
Removal of Doubt Door, 2015, Gold Leaf, […]
I just saw the amazing film, Apollo 11. It is as The New York Times film critic Glenn Kenny called it, “awe-inspiring.” Govinda Gallery presented Andy Warhol‘s last prints, The Moonwalk, in 1988, which featured Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin holding the American flag on the moon. It is 50 years since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong […]
“Untitled” by Tom Meyer Tom Meyer’s first exhibition in the spring of 2018 was a phenomenon. He showed 51 paintings and every one of them found collectors who wanted them. The exhibition sold out. It’s not everyday one discovers a fully realized collection of paintings by a self-taught artist. During Meyer’s exhibition at Addison […]
Chris Murray, Andy Warhol, and Chris Makos, Morgan’s Hotel, NYC, 1985. Photo from Govinda Gallery Archive. Chris Makos is a […]
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George Harrison, Friar Park Cave, 1970 © Barry Feinstein
Karl Lagerfeld, Monte Carlo 1985, Photo by Annie Leibovitz This terrific portrait of Karl Lagerfeld was featured in Annie Leibovitz’s second exhibition at Govinda Gallery in 1987, “Annie Leibovitz: Photographs.”
Invitation to tomorrow evening’s event at Dive. In the spring of 1973 Bruce Springsteen performed for three nights at The Childe Harold at DuPont Circle in Washington D.C. The contract for those shows is framed and hanging at DIVE, the New Rock & Roll bar in the basement of the fab Italian Restaurant Darlington House, […]