Author Archive

Exhibition of Donovan’s Sapphographs in Washington at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies  //

Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, in association with Govinda Gallery, has organized an exhibition of Donovan’s Sapphographs and a ‘day of poetry,’ beginning Saturday December 12. Donovan will also be performing at Hamilton Live a special solo concert celebrating his 50th year as a musical artist. Here are details for those events. Sappho’s Drum […]

Kids Get In the Groove with Jack White, Donovan, Jerry Garcia, Nina Simone, Carol King, and more  //

Yesterday the Washington Post published a story about parents looking for “cool music” for their kids to listen to. Jack White’s Third Man Records recently collaborated with the imprint Light In the Attic and released “This Record Belongs To______” which comes with a record player built for children. Ben Swank at Third Man Records said […]

It was 20 years ago today… Stuart Sutcliffe, Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voorman, Jurgen Vollmer, and The Beatles  //

Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe. Self-portrait © Astrid Kirchherr It was 20 years ago today that Govinda Gallery hosted the first exhibition of former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe’s paintings and drawings in the United States. Sutcliffe was with the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany during their formative years in the early 60s, during which time they developed […]

Peter Guralnick’s Monumental Biography of Sam Phillips Just Published  //

Peter Guralnick’s much-anticipated biography, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll (Little Brown), has just been published. Guralnick’s contribution to the history of American music is inestimable and his biography of Sam Phillips is the latest masterwork in Guralnick’s catalog of books. It was Peter Guralnick’s award-winning biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train […]

U.S. Post Office honors Elvis and Alfred Wertheimer  //

I was knocked out when I walked into my local post office and saw a stack of the post office’s magazine USA Philatelic with Alfred Wertheimer’s photos of Elvis at 21 on the cover! Several more of Alfred’s photos are used in the magazine and in the Forever Elvis Collection limited edition folio of stamps […]

John Lennon Happy 75th Birthday  //

New York City, November 1980. Copyright © Allan Tannenbaum. “These are the most beautiful and sensitive photographs of John and Yoko that I have ever seen”- Donovan From Allan Tannenbaum’s book John & Yoko: A New York Love Story (Insight Editions). Allan Tannenbaum’s photographs are available through Govinda Gallery.

Ted Russell  // Photographs

Bob Dylan NYC 1961-1964
Exhibition Dates:  January 21 through February 21, 2016

Govinda Gallery is pleased to present Ted Russell’s photographs of Bob Dylan at Ireland’s national center for contemporary photography, the Gallery of Photography, during Tradfest 2016 in Dublin. The reception for the exhibition will be on Tuesday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m. Click here for more information. “There was no apparent reason to photograph Bob […]

Muhammad Ali 20 Years Ago Today at Govinda Gallery  //

Muhammad Ali and David Murray greeting each other with gallery director Chris Murray looking on. September 21, 1995 Copyright © Govinda Gallery Archive. All Rights Reserved. Malcolm X walking the streets of Harlem with Muhammad Ali, 1963 Copyright © Howard Bingham. All Rights Reserved. Muhammad Ali with his two boxing heroes Sugar Ray Robinson and […]

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Savannah, GA, and Alfred Wertheimer’s Photographs of Elvis Presley  //

Copyright © Alfred Wertheimer. All Rights Reserved. It was five years ago tomorrow that Alfred Wertheimer’s exhibition of his photos of Elvis Presley opened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Cleveland loved the exhibition and the RRHF made a tasteful line of merchandise to accompany the show. I was invited to […]

The Pure Drop  // Live Action Drawings

Carlotta Hester
Exhibition Dates:  January 26 through February 21, 2016

Over a period of two years during the summers of 2010 and 2011 Carlotta Hester made over 100 drawings in County Cavan, Ireland, documenting the largest of all traditional Irish music festivals, Fleadh Cheoil na hÈireann. This exhibition is a tribute to the amazing artistry and remarkable spirit of traditional Irish music and dance.

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