From ARTE FUSE:

The very first time I walked into Gallery 151 was its original pop up location on the Bowery. In the summer of 2011, I attended a show by graffiti artist legend Fab Five Freddy (Fred Brathwaite). It was a bare bones industrial feel space as they were there temporarily but they presented eye-popping art. At that time, I was still working in a museum and not writing for AF yet – now that feels like centuries ago. Fast forward two years later and on a balmy night last July 18th, Gallery 151 came back with a vengeance on West 18^th Street. AF walked into a sleek, high end and very chic space for the group show The Least Orthodox Goddess. The show curated by Jasmine Wahi included nine artists that explored the core of the Goddess character as expressed in their contemporary art of various disciplines. Featured in the show were Goddess inspired pieces from: Anjali Bhargava, Peter Gronquist (who was reviewed by AF recently), Julie Heffernan, Swati Khurana, Leila Lal, L’OR, Divya Mehra, Wardell Milan, and Carrie Mae Rose. AF badass lens warrior, Max Noy, captured some scenes from the least orthodox gallery set up and the various denizens that came out to pay homage to art.

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Alec Baldwin has pulled together a selection of his favorite rock photos, to be exhibited this weekend only in New York. The collection features iconic images of legends like David Bowie, John Lennon, and The Rolling Stones. But why? Baldwin told us this afternoon, “Jody Britt is a very old friend of mine. I am a fan of her dad’s work and the work of several of the photographers in the collection. Rock and roll photography was an essential part of that whole period of my life. I mean, who didn’t have a Beatles poster in their bedroom? Who didn’t have Robert Plant, Dylan, the Stones, Hendrix, Santana, Yes, the Who, the Dead, the Doors, you name it, on some wall?”

As for seeing those bands back in the day, Baldwin said he saw “Zeppelin in DC in ’77 [years after The Song Remains The Same was filmed], and The Who at the Garden in ’74. Memory is blurry, but the train ride to the Garden was… exhilarating.”

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