Exodus Tour, Brussels, 1977. Left to right: The I Threes, Bob Marley, and Junior Marvin. Copyright © David Burnett. All Rights Reserved. If you like reggae music and Bob Marley’s songs it’s hard to beat Junior Marvin’s Wailers. Junior Marvin was the guitarist for Bob Marley from the Exodus album to his passing. His previous […]
Govinda Gallery director Chris Murray in Havana, holding Danny Clinch’s photograph of Tupac Shakur. Copyright © Carlotta Hester/Govinda Gallery Archive. All Rights Reserved. It has been one of the highlights of my work at Govinda Gallery to have organized four exhibitions in Havana, Cuba, as well as three exhibitions of Cuban photographers at Govinda Gallery. […]
James Dean 1955 Copyright © Phil Stern. All Rights Reserved. Phil Stern, one of the great Hollywood photographers of all time, has passed on. It was a tremendous honor and pleasure to host Phil’s first exhibition over 20 years ago at Govinda Gallery, Phil Stern’s Hollywood, which was also a launch for his first book […]
The cast of Diner pointing to the neon Diner sign on the set at the closing curtain. Copyright © Carlotta Hester/Govinda Gallery Archive. All Rights Reserved. It’s not every day you get to attend the premiere of a theatrical musical event with the writer and composer. Last night Barry Levinson’s story of youth transitioning from […]
Sheryl Crow, Barry Levinson, and Peter Marks. Copyright © Carlotta Hester. All Rights Reserved. Last night at the Signature Theatre in Shirlington, Virginia, Sheryl Crow and Barry Levinson made an appearance to talk about the new musical based on Levinson’s classic film Diner. The talk was moderated by Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks. Nine-time […]
Bobby Keys was one of the great rock and roll sidemen of all time. He performed and recorded with George Harrison, Chuck Berry, Donovan, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Graham Nash, Sheryl Crow, and The Rolling Stones, to name a few. His sax riffs on “Brown Sugar” for example, are the heart […]
Stevie Wonder Copyright © Jill Fermanovsky. All Rights Reserved. Yesterday Stevie Wonder was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor. Stevie truly deserved that honor. Just two weeks ago I went to see him in concert on November 9th at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. He was performing for the […]
The Poet’s Door by William Adair with Nevada Schadler, Georgetown University’s Red Square. On Veteran’s Day William Adair brought to the Georgetown University campus a work from his “Golden Doors to Infinity” series of gilded doors that are then inscribed and marked by the public. This door was dedicated to Walt Whitman, who nursed Civil […]
15 November/16 November 2014 Cool and collected Rock photography: How images of pop stars have gone from bedroom walls to sale rooms. By Melanie Abrams Music photographs—images that would once ripped out of magazines and stuck on teenage bedroom walls—have become increasingly collectable. Take Gered Mankowitz’s portrait of Jimi Hendrix, which nearly doubled in price […]
The New York Times published a fine obituary on Alfred Wertheimer after his passing on October 19 written by William Yardley. We present it here in full. I’ve also included below three quotes from three people who loved Alfred Wertheimer’s beautiful photographs. “There has been no other photographer that Elvis ever allowed to get as […]