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 […]
Bill Adair‘s Golden Doors to Infinity opens April 20th at Montserrat House. Adair and Govinda Gallery director, Chris Murray, brought over a dozen of Adair’s Golden Doors to Montserrat House this week for the installation. It was a great surprise and pleasure to meet the musical genius, Brian Jackson, at Montserrat House. Jackson was doing some […]
About to go onstage, Gerde’s Folk City, Greenwich Village. 1961. Photo by Ted Russell. Suze […]
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 […]
Chris Murray, Andy Warhol, and Chris Makos, Morgan’s Hotel, NYC, 1985. Photo from Govinda Gallery Archive. Chris Makos is a […]
George Harrison, Friar Park Cave, 1970 © Barry Feinstein
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, […]
Mi Bandera. Photo by Mario Díaz. The first photograph by a Cuban photographer that I ever purchased, over 20 years ago, was Mi Bandera (My Flag) by Mario Díaz. I was about to visit Cuba for the first time, and I called […]
Bob Marley. Photo by David Burnett. I just returned from two weeks in Jamaica assisting the musical genius Donovan on a new project of his. More about that later from The Back Room. I took the opportunity while in Ocho Rios to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of Bob Marley, whose birthday happens to […]
Watercolor by Stuart Sutcliffe Stuart Sutcliffe, “Double Exposure”, Hamburg, 1961. Photo by Astrid Kirchherr. George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, “Truck”, Hamburg, 1961. Photo […]