Daily Travels: the Honeymooners

As seen on West 16th Street at Sixth Avenue, NYC

JIM MARSHALL: The Rolling Stones and Beyond

This just in from Steven Kasher Gallery: Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to announce our first exhibition of one of the greatest music photographers of all time. Jim Marshall: The Rolling Stones and Beyond will feature over 60 photographs and over one hundred vintage record covers mapping Jim Marshall’s entire career and introducing never-before-seen images he captured during the Rolling Stones’ 1972 U.S. tour. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band, and the 40th anniversary of that legendary tour. Our exhibition also launches the book The Rolling Stones 1972 by Jim Marshall, foreword by Keith Richards, published by Chronicle Books.

“Once Jim was in, he was another Stone. He caught us with our trousers down and got the ups and downs. I love his work.” —Keith Richards, from the Foreword (continued here)

Jim Marshall: The Rolling Stones and Beyond will be on view from July 5 through September 8, 2012
Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM

 

Just Because - The Empire Diner

Courtesy of GVDP

Pat Place art at Keyes Art Projects

Friend of the blog, Pat Place, will be participating in this art exhibit from Dec. 3 through January 3 at Keyes Art Projects. In other Bush Tetras-related news, look out for my interview with her coming soon at Perfect Sound Forever. Also, I should have more info soon regarding the Laura Kennedy memorial in NYC at the end of December.

This weekend - another WFMU Record Fair

Daily Travels - Since 1919

Gene's, 11th Street & 6th Ave

Daily Travels - 5th Ave & 19th Street

Last Night's Opening: Laura Levine and Rude & Reckless

Last night was an interesting one for anyone into the nostalgia trip for the mid-70's to mid-80's period of punk/new wave/post punk music and art. At the New Museum, there was the late-reported Gray two-set show. And at the Kasher Gallery was the long awaited opening for two exhibits: The Laura Levine: Musicians photography show, and the Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post Punk Graphics 1976-1982 collection. As planned I attended the shindig at the Kasher Gallery, and was glad I made it.

The gallery, a beautiful space thats just the right size, would make any exhibit look good...not that these two needed any help. More after the break.

Laura Levine: Musicians - photography exhibit opens in July

Alan Vega, 1983

Back in May, I brought you news of a wonderful looking punk & new wave art show opening at Steven Kasher Gallery in July (July 21 - NOT the 14th as previously reported - thru August 19) - Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post Punk Graphics 1976-82. Well, we're in for a real treat because now, in conjunction with this show, the gallery will be also be presenting at the same time Laura Levine: Musicians. Laura's work is up there on the upper tier of music photographers - especially of the late 70's into the 80's ilk. One classic shot of classic artists after another - her collection of work is really something else. To follow is the info on the show. Be sure to get yourself down to the Kasher Gallery on West 23rd between July 21 and August 19 for both of these very very promising shows.

Glenn Branca, 1981

 "Laura Levine's photos are as vividly alive as the music of her subjects. Sometimes when you catch them out of the corner of your eye you'd swear they actually move." - Luc Sante

Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present Laura Levine: Musicians, an insider’s look at the artists at the forefront of rock, punk, indie rock, post-punk, hip-hop, New Wave, and No Wave. This is the first one-person gallery exhibition featuring Levine’s photography, including her vintage gelatin silver prints - many one of a kind. The show will feature over 35 vintage and modern prints.

Laura Levine: Musicians is being presented at Steven Kasher Gallery in conjunction with our exhibition Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82, the first New York exhibition surveying the extraordinary diversity of punk and post-punk graphic design.

Levine is highly esteemed as a photographer and documentarian of the downtown NYC, London and Los Angeles music scene in the 1980s and early 90s. Her portraits of such seminal figures as Bjork, R.E.M., the Clash, Afrika Bambaataa, Tina Weymouth, DNA, the Ramones, Beastie Boys, Iggy Pop, Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett, Madonna, and many others are valued for their unpretentious intimacy and emotional power.

Exene & John Doe (X), 1982

Levine was the Chief Photographer and Photo Editor of the important underground paper New York Rocker. She published frequently in the Village Voice, Sounds, Rolling Stone, Spin, the New York Times, Trouser Press, and Creem. She worked for numerous record labels. Levine enjoyed wide access to musical greats, many of whom became close friends.

During the 1980s Levine was active in the downtown NYC gallery scene, showing frequently at East Village galleries such as the Fun Gallery and Bridgewater Gallery. More recently, Levine’s work was shown at Museum of Modern Art, where ten photographs were showcased in the exhibition Looking at Music 3.0. Other recent shows include Vivienne Westwood 1980-1989 at The Museum at FIT, and Backstage Pass: Rock and Roll Photography at the Portland Museum of Art. Her work is part of a current traveling exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, originating at the Brooklyn Museum.

Levine’s photographs are in the collections of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Jerome de Noirmont, Michael Zilkha and many more.

Johnny Feedback (Kraut), 1982

In 1994 Levine stopped shooting. Her primary focus has evolved into a cross-disciplinary visual practice spanning painting, illustration and animation to directing music videos and documentary film. It is only recently she decided to revisit her photography archives.

Laura Levine: Musicians will be on view from July 21st through August 19th, 2011. Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.

Ephemera Crazy! Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82

Along with the latest catalog from Beatbooks, it seems there is no slowing the beast known as punk & new wave ephemera. This just in:

Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82
Exhibition: July 14th through August 19th, 2011
Opening Reception: July 14th, 6-9 PM

Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82 is the first New York exhibition surveying the extraordinary diversity of Punk and Post-Punk graphic design. The exhibition showcases a wide range of American and British artistry, with influences that include the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dadaism, Pop Art, Constructivism and Expressionism. The exhibition presents features over 150 rare posters, along with fanzines, flyers, clothing, badges and stickers.

Rude and Reckless documents an era that produced a great burst of applied graphic-design creativity, one of the most subversive of the 20th Century. Vivid, violent and frequently acid tongued, the works in Rude and Reckless represent one of the truly authentic DIY youth culture movements of the Western World.

The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Punk Rock; both the release of the first Ramones album, and the mythical (and notorious) Anarchy in the UK Tour were seminal punk events in 1976. The exhibition is based on the collection Andrew Krivine, who began collecting in 1977. Curated by Krivine and Steven Kasher, the selection comprises the rarest and finest examples culled from an archive of more than 800 punk/new wave/post-punk posters and ephemera. Coincidentally, Rude and Reckless happens to open on Bastille Day, July 14th. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

Beyond the “Holy Trinity” of Punk Rock (Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols), Rude and Reckless includes materials covering over 70 Punk, New Wave, Post-Punk and No Wave performers. The collection on display constitutes a comprehensive A to Z of both iconic and obscure groups, including: A Certain Ratio, the Adverts, Alternative TV, the B52s, Bauhaus, Blondie, the Buzzcocks, Chrome, the Circle Jerks, the Cramps, the Cure, the Damned, Devo, Eater, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, the Fall, Fear, Fire Engines, the Flying Lizards, Gang of Four, GBH, Generation X, Gun Club, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Iggy Pop, the Jam, Jim Carroll Band, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed, the Lurkers, Malcolm McLaren, the Misfits, New Order, Nick Lowe, Nina Hagen, the Only Ones, 999, Patti Smith, Penetration, PIL, the Police, the Pop Group, the Pork Dukes, Pylon, the Rings, Sham 69, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Snakefinger, the Slits, the Stranglers, Suicide, Talking Heads, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Television, Wayne County, X-Ray Spex and XTC.

The exhibition includes designs from the most illustrious graphic artists of the period, such as Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Barney Bubbles, Gee Vaucher, Linder Sterling, Keith Haring, Robert Williams, and, of course, Jamie Reid. On the other hand, several bands (some fronted by art-school dropouts) designed their own graphics.

In recent years several Punk-related exhibitions have been mounted in America and Europe, raising the artistic profile of Punk. In 2009 MOMA held an exhibition focused on the New York scene, entitled Looking at Music: Side 2. In May 2010, Boo-Hooray presented selected graphic works of the Secret Public (Linder Sterling and Jon Savage). In the Fall of 2010 the Steven Kasher Gallery presented a show focused on the legendary Punk venue Max’s Kansas City. In October 2010, two Punk/New Wave graphics exhibitions were held in London. Haunch of Venison hosted an exhibition of Punk posters and memorabilia entitled Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper and Chelsea Space presented an exhibition dedicated to the works of Barney Bubbles. In January of this year, a Punk graphics exhibition was mounted by the French Academy in Rome at the prestigious Villa Medici. Finally, in the current Art in the Streets exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles several works by Jamie Reid are displayed. Punk’s presence in the modern art world continues to grow.

Rude and Reckless documents the visual expression of Punk, the continuingly influential subculture infused with a gleeful, undisguised contempt for just about everything. This show seeks to demonstrate that nothing truly anti-commercial, venomous, and loutish has been produced in the field of graphic art over the past 30 years – that the 1975-1982 period signals both the apex and the death knell of modern graphic design – and it was all done without computers! Rude and Reckless is an exhibition that every young artist needs to see!

Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82 will be on view from July 14th through August 19th, 2011. Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011. Summer gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 am to 6 pm.

Daily Travels - Paul Smith shop, Fifth Avenue

Old NME's and various ephemera on display

Janette Beckman photos on display

Daily Travels - West 14th Street

Friday Ephemera - Ramones

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I remember you well...

Here's a pretty interesting doc, in 6 parts, from 1981 about the Chelsea Hotel. It features Nico, Quentin Crisp, Jobriath, Joe Bidewell, Viva, and Warhol, as well as some other just as fascinating folks.


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Upcoming events

Here are a couple of events coming up soon that I thought might be of some interest to a few of you. As usual, click on the flyers to get a closer look.

The French Music Export Office here in NYC will host two free showcases of contemporary French pop & rock music next week at the Hiro Ballroom during CMJ. Highlights include Emilie Simon, and upcoming rock band, Revolver. Click here for more info, set times, etc.



On Friday the 29th, in Mt. Tremper, NY, (Woodstock/Phoenicia), music writer Tony Fletcher and his sometime band of music maniacs, the Catskills 45's will be playing a party at the Emerson Resort. Part Halloween party, part farewell party to the Phoenicia Times & the Olive Press, it's sure to be a good time.

WFMU Record Fair reminder

Only about 10 days away - it's that time of year again. The fair runs Friday October 22nd from 7-10pm, and Saturday and Sunday, the 23rd and 24th, from 10am to 7pm. Admission is $7. Early birds can get in on Friday at 4pm for $25, which includes re-admission all weekend. Click here for more details.

Max's Kansas City exhibit and book launch

Max's proprietor Mickey Ruskin by Anton Perich, 1971



My photos here do not do any justice to the incredible Max's Kansas City exhibit that opened last night at the Steven Kasher Gallery on 23rd Street. By far, its the best photo show I've seen since the Bob Gruen show at Morrison Hotel a couple of years back.


No Waver Anya Phillips by Marcia Resnick, 1978

There must be at least 300 pictures on display, as well as several sculptures, and paintings. The scope is incredible. Besides the images that you might expect to see (the musicians), many are included of the painters, writers, celebs, and scene makers that ultimately made Max's what it was. Black & white prints of all sizes dominate, however there quite a few color shots as well including some small "personal" sized shots which are a real you-are-there time machine - like looking at old family snapshots. My only complaint is that I wish the photos were labeled with the photographer and subject. In many cases it was obvious who was in the picture (but not always), and the photographer was only clearly identified if the print happened to be signed.



Of course the opening also celebrated the new Max's book just published by Abrams. All I can say is buy the book, and get your ass over to the Kasher Gallery before this show goes away on Oct. 9. You will not regret it.


Artist John Chamberlain by Anton Perich, 1972


Waylon Jennings by Bob Gruen, 1973

Daily Travels - West 8th Street

Outside and in - Electric Lady Studios, West 8th Street, NYC

Fat Beats closing their store

This news in yesterday: The physical retail arm of Fat Beats Records (they also have a website, label & distributorship), who for some time (16 years!) have occupied the original location of Venus Records (RIP) on the north east corner of West 8th Street and 6th Avenue, will be shutting down both of their stores - the one described here (closing September 4), and the one in Los Angeles (closing September 18). Until then they will be having some sales to move out some stock, so you may want to check it out if you're of the hip hop persuasion. The website & distribution arms will continue to operate. That website address, again, is FatBeats.com.

Max's Kansas City book and exhibition news

As recently promised, here's more info on the Steven Kasher Gallery Max's Kansas City show opening in September to coincide with the new book that will soon be available from Abrams. View & pre-order the book here on Amazon.



Exhibition: September 15 – October 9, 2010
Reception and book launch: September 15, 6PM-8PM

Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to inaugurate its 2010/11 season with the exhibition Max's Kansas City, on view September 15th through October 9th. It will feature over 150 vintage and limited edition photographs, and monumental sculptures and paintings by the inner circle of Max's artists, including John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers, Larry Zox, Neil Williams, and Andy Warhol. A highlight will be Myers's recreation of his famous laser/jukebox installation.

The exhibition will launch Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll (Abrams Image, Sept 2010), a vibrant chronicle of the famed venue. The book will feature luminous photography by Bob Gruen, Anton Perich and others, and writing by Lou Reed, Lenny Kaye, Danny Fields, Lorraine O'Grady, and Steven Watson. It is edited by Steven Kasher.

There has never been a more exciting collision of art, music, and glamour than at Max's Kansas City in the 1960s and 70s. At Max's you could hang out with Andy Warhol, argue about art with John Chamberlain, or get a record deal just by showing up. Downstairs the artists were paying tabs with original art, upstairs was home to the iconoclastic New York music scene, featuring the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls, and yet undiscovered stars such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Madonna. Max’s incubated more artists and musicians in New York’s 60s and 70s cultural heyday than any other scene.



“Max’s Kansas City was the exact spot where Pop Art and Pop Life came together in the 60s –teenyboppers and sculptors, rock stars and poets from St. Mark’s Place, Hollywood actors checking out what the underground actors were all about, boutique owner and models, modern dancers and go- go dancers---everybody went to Max’s and everything got homogenized there.” -Andy Warhol

A concurrent show, entitled Artists at Max’s Kansas City: Hetero-holics and Some Women Too is being mounted at Loretta Howard Gallery.

Max’s Kansas City will be on view September 15 to October 9, 2010.

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM



James Chance (by Ebet Roberts), Cramps (by Nicky Latzoni), Jason Holiday (by Anton Perich) and Candy Darling (by Anton Perich) photos courtesy of the Kasher Gallery website.