Velvet Underground
Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed at ICA, Boston (2009) (press release)
→ music + art roomADP staff - 01 Apr 09
...Velvet Underground, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
"Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967" at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008-09) (press release)
→ music + art roomADP staff - 12 Nov 08
...Velvet Underground in New York in 1967 to the dazzling 2007 installation Pinball Wizard and The Byrds (Love in a Void) by British artist Jim Lambie, Sympathy for the Devil is the most comprehensive presentation ever— including artworks, album cover design, music videos and other materials— of...
Andy Warhol music show at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2008-09) (press release)
→ music + art roomADP staff - 08 Aug 08
...Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol’s TV and video clips produced for groups like The Cars and Curiosity Killed the Cat. The exhibition Warhol Live is produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The works...
Psychedelic Art at Tate Liverpool (2005) (press release)
→ café libraryADP staff - 04 Jun 05
...Velvet Underground. Major film installations include a room with multiple projections of the Boyle Family’s films, first used in light shows for the psychedelic band The Soft Machine and a liquid crystal projection by Gustav Metzger. The medium of film is integrated into the exhibition through...
David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 28 Feb 03
...Velvet Underground. Bowie was to be influenced by Warhol, especially his demonstration that stardom could be fabricated, by the Factory’s transsexual "superstars", by his philosophy of "business art" and by the sound of Reed and the Velvet Underground. Reed and Bowie were later to play music...
Punk (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Velvet Underground and Nico which for a time collaborated with Andy Warhol. In Britain the leading Punk bands were the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned, the Jam, Generation X, the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex, Subway Sect, the Slits, Sham 69, the...
Psychedelic Art (1992)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Velvet Underground to present a multi-media disco called the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI). Meanwhile in London the Scottish artist Mark Boyle devised “liquid light” shows for rock groups such as Soft Machine at the UFO club in 1967. Multi-media performances of this kind attempted to induce...
Andy Warhol: The factory master (1989)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 08 Sep 89
Andy Warhol: The factory master (1989) Andy Warhol cannot be judged simply as a painter, because his work spanned a dozen different media—illustration, window display, films, books, magazines, records and television. The range of his output is staggering: one would have to go back to the...
COUM Transmissions to Psychic TV (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 20 Mar 87
...Velvet Underground and John Coltrane. Since Happenings were in fashion in the 1960s, P-Orridge organised some with the help of school and college friends. From the beginning he evinced a desire to mix media, to improvise and to perform live: in 1968 he participated in the Early Worm rock band...
Andy Warhol & the Velvet Underground (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 12 Mar 87
Andy Warhol & the Velvet Underground (1987) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. Andy Warhol & the Velvet Underground Before Andy Warhol (b. 1930) turned his attention to the area of fine art he pursued a successful career as a commercial artist,...
Pop Music & Pop Art (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 26 Feb 87
...Velvet Underground in New York; Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton with record cover commissions for the Beatles. The term "Pop art" was even adopted as part of the name of an American rock group, that is, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. This group— Shaun Harris, Bob Markley and Danny...
Andy Warhol and music (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 02 Feb 87
...Velvet Underground and Nico. He made a film about them and designed their first record cover. Later he designed an album cover— Sticky Fingers— for the Rolling Stones. And in 1980 he did the artwork for the cover of a Rolling Stone (magazine) book about the Beatles. Warhol’s monthly magazine...
