My own rock & roll DNA rests on two pillars, Little Richard and Elvis Presley. I was fortunate to be old enough to collect and play 45 rpm singles by Little Richard and Elvis in 1956 and beyond. It was hypnotic to see Little Richard’s Specialty Records label, and Presley’s RCA label, spinning around and […]
Leave it to Donovan to release the best album of these times, Eco-Song, a compilation of 21 tunes written and recorded by Donovan with the theme of climate change and the environment. Starting with his smash hit “Riki Tiki Tavi” in 1970, and with songs from all of the last five decades, there is not […]
Though written by George Harrison 50 years ago, the lyrics and music to Here Comes the Sun remain as meaningful today as ever before, in a way perhaps more so. This beautiful watercolor by the British artist Keith West was commissioned as an illustration for George Harrison’s two-volume set of song lyrics, Songs By George, published by […]
These days Richard Lewis’s Reflections from Hell (powerHouse Books) seem prescient. The one above very much so. Carl Titolo’s image accompanying Lewis’s reflection is brilliant.
This week the number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States surpassed the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. This pandemic took less than three months to reach the number of fatalities that took ten years during that war. A very somber thought. These compelling photographs were taken fifty years ago by […]
This photograph by E.S. Curtis is of a Hamatsa shaman, possessed by supernatural power, emerging from the woods after many days participating in a secret society ritual. He is a member of the First Nations’ Kwakwakaʼwakw peoples of British Columbia. When we finally emerge from this pandemic many of us may have a reaction similar […]
From Reflections from Hell by Richard Lewis (powerHouse Books).
Mati Klarwein is one of my favorite artists. His exhibitions at Govinda Gallery were some of the most memorable we have had. Mati had a great influence on our exhibition programming. We also enjoyed many portrait commissions for Mati, including great paintings of Bill Paley, Danille Kogod, Henry Schoellkopf, and Kim Waters, among others. Last […]
The Washington Post published a front page feature story today on comedian and actor Richard Lewis. It was an excellent story. In 1994, I exhibited photographer Arthur Grace’s photos from his book Comedians at Govinda Gallery. This beautiful portrait of Richard Lewis was from that exhibition. I first got to know of Lewis from frequent […]
Barry Feinstein’s photographs are available through Govinda Gallery.