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 […]
It was an extraordinary pleasure for me to first feature the baseball photographs of Walter Iooss at Govinda Gallery in April of 2003. That exhibition was also a launch for Iooss’s wonderful book Classic Baseball. Walter Iooss and his photographs are a national treasure. Mickey Mantle (at Bat) and Roger Maris. Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, N.Y. […]
Bob Dylan at his typewriter, NYC, 1964. Next Wednesday, Govinda Gallery director Chris Murray is presenting an audiovisual program on Bob Dylan, featuring Ted Russell‘s compelling photographs of Dylan on his first arrival in New York City and then up through 1964, at which point Dylan had established himself as a remarkable songwriter and performing […]
Enjoy an immersive journey as Chris Murray, writer, curator, and founder of Govinda Gallery, guides you through the early years of Bob Dylan‘s career. This storytelling event, featuring Ted Russell‘s extraordinary photographs of Dylan at the cusp of stardom, is perfect for Dylan enthusiasts and rock history fans alike. Chris will transport you back to […]
This month, the estate of the late Paul G. Allen launched a series of three big auctions at Christie’s celebrating first-generation technologies and the brilliant minds behind them. This follows an incredibly successful auction of Allen’s collection in 2022 that raised $1.62 billion– a record-setting sale. While Paul Allen was mainly known for his contribution […]
This past Monday, The New York Times published a front-page story discussing recent research on the trees in the Columbian Amazon and the local researchers who climb up the trees in order to measure how much carbon dioxide is stored in them. The story talks about the recent scientific push to study the incredible trees […]
The great writer and activist James Baldwin was born 100 years ago this month. We celebrate his life and his work with these photographs by Ted Russell of Baldwin taken in 1963 with Bob Dylan. Govinda Gallery Director, Chris Murray writes in the introduction to Russell’s photo book Bob Dylan NYC 1961-1964 (Rizzoli) about […]
The New Yorker published a fine story on Black is Beautiful: JET Beauties of the Week, published by powerHouse Books featuring LaMonte McLemore‘s photography and edited by Chris Murray. Black is Beautiful also features essays by Sylvia Flanagan, Jayne Kennedy, Mickalene Thomas, and Chris Murray. In Jennifer Wilson‘s compelling story in The New Yorker, she […]