The Beatles, 1964
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In 1964, Beatles press officer Derek Taylor convinced Beatles manager Brian Epstein that the Beatles should have a professional photographer accompany them on their first US tour in 1964. The Morrison Hotel is proud to feature for the first time the premiere exhibition and sale of Curt Gunther Beatles photographs. The show will start in our SoHo gallery on June 18th and run through the middle of July.
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Ray Charles by Joe Adams
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This is a very limited edition of 3 photographs hand signed by Ray Charles longtime personal manager Joe Adams. This edition was originally intended to number 90, but only 3 will ever be signed by Joe.
Don't miss this chance to own this rare limited edition photograph of a true American Icon.
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Adam Green comes to the Bowery
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ADAM GREEN: DEBUT ART EXHIBITION TEEN TECH AT NEW YORK’S MORRISON HOTEL GALLERY IN THE BOWERY EXTENDED ONE MORE WEEK!
APRIL 23 Through May 2, 2010
From Noon to 7 PM
A PORTION OF PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO
ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Folk-rock troubadour Adam Green’s debut art show, Teen Tech, will open at the Morrison Hotel Gallery Bowery (313 Bowery, former home to the famed CBGB’s gallery) in his hometown of New York, NY, on April 23rd and 24th. Teen Tech showcases another artistic side of singer/songwriter Green, already known for his prolific (six albums in eight years) career as a solo musician and for his work as half of the band Moldy Peaches. Last year, he composed the soundtrack for a German theatrical adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel Timbuktu, which he titled Musik For A Play. Fat Possum Records released Green’s most recent solo album, Minor Love, in February.
The exhibition will consist of original works by Green: 12 sculptures of plaster, papier-mâché, or papier-mâché and mixed materials; 18 large-scale (30” x 40”) acrylic or watercolor paintings; 19 drawings; and 20 collages (created together with model Cory Kennedy). The art will be for sale and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the charitable organization Artists for Peace and Justice, which directs 100% of all funds raised towards rebuilding and maintaining long-term sustainability in Haiti.
Green says of the exhibition, “Teen Tech is an art show I've prepared over the last year and a half. Perhaps because I'm an entertainer in showbiz, I found myself trying to make this art show more entertaining than average. It focuses on cartoon subjects. I don't often read comics but I've always liked to draw cartoons. I contend that all artists work in caricature. The pieces in Teen Tech are caricatures of cartoons, which I feel distill the subjects down to their bare essence.”
Teen Tech coincides with Green’s two-night, hometown headlining stand at the Bowery Ballroom. These two gigs, April 23rd and 24th, will be the final of his current U.S. tour in support of Minor Love. The album has earned Green plenty of praise, with BlackBook writing, “…the real genius of Minor Love isn’t the album’s embrace of disparate genres (although that’s impressive, too), it’s how charming and easy Green makes all this variety sound” and Filter adding, “…Green revels in a stripped-down, bittersweet world where nothing lasts forever, with both his baritone and lyrics adding freshness to his fatalist outlook.”
Morrison Hotel Gallery
The Bowery
313 Bowery
NYC
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Not Just Music
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This is a collection of non-music related photographs taken by some of our Morrison Hotel Gallery photographers.
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Jim Marshall by Henry Diltz
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We all miss Jim immediately. We all miss Jim tremendously. Maybe we’re surprised by how much we miss him. Jim was a constant in our fraternity of music photographers. He WAS our “fuckin’ guru.” He was a sweet man with a tough, raspy way about him. Jim Marshall stories will abound now, as if they didn’t already. Everybody has a Jim story. That’s because he was an original and he didn’t suffer fools lightly. He had an opinion and he didn’t mind telling it. Jim was the top of the line in music photography. He was a film guy to the end. He did not abide digital. Even answering machines bugged him. He had very little patience for a lot of things except for taking pictures and he was a master at that. He was quick and relentless, wading in with his quiet little Leica and capturing the essence of the person and the moment. I have a picture in my mind of Jim in his “light body” approaching the pearly gates, shouting, “Open the fuckin’ gate” and I’m sure he’ll be given “all access.”
Jim is survived by his wonderful assistant Amelia, his family and the thousands of people whose lives have been graced by his lens.
Click here to watch Jim’s interview at his last show at The Loft in SoHo NYC.
Click here to make a donation to Jim's favorite charity.
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A Very Special Guest
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Morrison Hotel Gallery was proud to host the premier of Herman Leonard's Limited Edition Portfolio of his amazing jazz photography. The event was February 17, 2010 at our Loft Space in SoHo, NYC. Herman was unable to attend, but his close friend, Tony Bennett dropped by as a special favor to introduce the collection.
To purchase this very limited deluxe set please call our SoHo Gallery at 212 941-8770.
Click here to view the images from the portfolio.
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A great customer story.
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Here is an email that our Micki Stickford received from some recent visitors at Morrison Hotel Gallery in SoHo.
Hey Micki,
We were in the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Soho about a week and half ago on our way to Paris. After we spoke with you for a while, you gave us your card and said our goodbyes.
When we got to Paris, we had this idea that we had to go see the Jim Morrison grave at Pere LaChaise. As we stood before the grave, I reached into my pocket and voila there was your card!
Thanks for inspiring us with the idea to go to see Pere LaChaise. We would have never even thought about it unless we stopped in to your gallery in SoHo.
Best regards,
Cary Miller
Marina del Rey, CA
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New Elaine Mayes Photographs Added From Her Archives.
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Elaine Mayes began as a photojournalist in the 1960's. She photographed musicians and current events, and in 1967 the Fantasy Fair in Mill Valley, California and the Monterey Pop Festival. Her book of photographs and writings called, It Happened In Monterey, (about Monterey Pop) is a definitive publication about that Summer of Love seminal concert event. She also became the official photographer for the Steve Miller Band, and she and poster artist, Victor Moscoso produced the innovative first Miller album cover, Children of the Future. In 1968 she became one of the first of three women to teach photography in the University of Minnesota, was on the founding faculty of Hampshire College and retired from NYU's Tisch School as Chair in 2001. Along with teaching she followed her interest in doing fine art photography but also continued with photographing the music scene including The Punk and New Wave era in New York, and a later series called, Portraits of Musicians and Celebrities on Television. Elaine has an international reputation for her landscape, conceptual documentary and candid photography. With the assistance of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 she produced a book about Hawaii called, Ki'i no Hawaii (Photographs from/of/about Hawaii) 2009, photographs that cover a 20 year period and present aspects of land and culture. Since her retirement from teaching Elaine has continued with her photographic work. Her Monterey Pop images can been seen on the Pennybaker DVD (The Complete Monterey Pop Festival) and a recent anniversary CD called Monterey International Pop Festival (sold in Starbucks 2007) also features her pictures. Her Monterey Pop photographs were exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, and are in their collection. Pictures from her 1968 Haight Ashbury portrait series were shown recently at the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her music pictures also were included in an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art called, San Francisco Psychedelic, and other musician photographs are presently on exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
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