We may be over a decade into the new millennium, but counterculture’s golden era of the 1960s and ’70s still captures the imagination of artists and bohemians the world over. It is that spirit of wistfulness that pervades Marc Hundley’s Joan Baez is Alive, a show that opens today at Manhattan’s Team Gallery and runs through October 29th. Appropriating the styles of promotional materials, Hundley personalizes tickets and posters that evoke the past with details from his own relationship with the artists he references: a Joan Baez poster commemorates the time and place where he first heard her album Diamonds and Rust, while A Woman Under the Influence bears the name of the Cassavetes film’s lead actress, Gena Rowlands, along with a date and location. Preview a selection of images that pay homage to everything from Virginia Woolf to free love after the jump.
Lou Reed is a stark enigma that just keeps going, ever-changing. As a younger angst-driven star in 1974, he evaded reporters’ questions with unabashed answers and stated nonchalantly that what was written about him was untrue. When a reporter asked him who he attributed the lies to, Reed responded, “journalists.” Cue laughter. He has been described as bohemian, old, cool, realistic, taciturn, a grouch. Yet through it all Reed has maintained the stamina as a prolific underground icon. As Reed once said, only he knows himself better than anyone.
Now in his sixties, Reed continues to reinvent himself as an art photographer with Romanticism, which features architecture and landscape images from his travels. The book is a departure from New York and Emotion in Action, his previous photograph collections of cityscapes. After the jump, peep images from the new book, along with ten interesting facts about Reed.
Today we reveal the final 10 selections in our list of the 50 essential women-in-music albums. This week’s list features two punk queens, a few soul legends, and one of the most influential folk musicians of all time. A final recap of our criteria: Every album featured had to be a seminal influence on women in music, we couldn’t feature a particular artist more than once, and any bands featured had to be unequivocally fronted by a woman.
Next week, we’ll be doing a full recap of all 50 of our selections, ranked in order of influence, and listing the ones-to-watch — a list of new female artists that we think could end up on a list like this 20 years from now. But first, selections 41 through 50 (in no particular order). Read More »
