Mellow yellow for Govinda´s 30th Anniversary
CHANCE ENCOUNTER
At the 30th Anniversary of
his gallery on September 23,
Chris Murray recalled how he
could never have imagined
that knocking on folk-rock
legend and artist Donovan’s
door at the Mayfl ower Hotel
in the ‘60s would lead to a
30 year friendship. Recently,
Donovan played at his
wedding in Ireland, and is
now showing his collection of
“Sapphographs” at Govinda
Gallery. Inspired by the circa
600 B.C. lady poet Sappho
from the Greek island of
Lesbos, Donovan attempts to
and succeeds at evoking the
beauty of the wri en word
in visual form.
MUSICAL
MILESTONE
Jody Arlington,
artist Sid Maurer and Abigail
Greenway reminisced
about the Georgetown
gallery’s impressive record
of displaying early works
by photographers Annie
Leibovitz and Astrid Kirchher.
Over the years, Murray has
exhibited many works from
Andy Warhol and others who
inspired him to look at cut ing edge
photography. Today, the
gallery is known worldwide for
its music-related photography.
MARK SELINGER’S
STARIRWELL
In December,
Govinda Gallery will exhibit
works from Rolling Stone
photographer Mark Selinger’s
new book, “In My Stairwell.”
The book features Paul
McCartney, Susan Sarandon,
Lou Reed, Tom Wolfe, among
others, who all bring diff erent
personalities to the same
small space, his stairwell.
PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON
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