![]() ![]() (There is a great show of that work at Steven Kasher Gallery right now, which would make a nice addendum to this exhibit). ![]() McDarrah’s incredible photos from his time as a photographer at the Village Voice. The Velvet Underground with Andy Warhol and friends.įirst, you’re led through the crumbling state of postwar lower Manhattan from which the Beat Generation and early folk scenes arose, delineated most effectively by a wall of Fred W. Head a bit to your left – of course, since this show is nothing if not a representation of the development of the darker corners of the leftist cultural movement at the end of the midcentury – the standard gallery exhibit purpose statement greets you: “Welcome to America.” So does a beautiful, silver metal plate with a timeline of the band running down it. And as you walked in the front door, the silver mylar strips hanging around, a dark atmosphere punctuated by splashes of film strips, colored lights, and camera flashes, and a steady stream of fabulously bent and beautiful people, did offer an instant facsimile. I am sure that in the hearts of the curators of “The Velvet Underground Experience” exhibit, they hoped some time-warped version of hanging out at Andy Warhol’s Factory might occur at the Tuesday night pre-opening party. ![]() A new ‘Art & Music Exhibition’ re-creates the bohemian rhapsodies that cross-pollinated in downtown Manhattan and shaped everything from the Beats to the punks, all of it seeming to be six degrees of separation from the Velvets ![]()
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