Tuesday, April 9, 2013

See Madonna in the East Village again for the very first time

Fashionista has a post on "MADONNA: A Transformational Exhibition," a traveling collection of "unseen" photos of her Madgeness from her days in the East Village circa early 1980s... Photographer Richard Corman talks about meeting Madonna for the very first time... at her place in 234 E. Fourth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B...

I went into the building and the seas parted – there must have been 20 kids sitting on the stoop and in the hallway and then I went up to meet her. I really didn’t know what I was getting into, but as soon as I met her, as soon as she served me espresso on a silver plated tray with Bazooka bubblegum, I knew I was in for a ride.

The exhibit opens Thursday with a private event. Read the Q-and-A (and find more photos) here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Madonna in the East Village circa 1982

7 comments:

Makeout said...

Thanks a ton Grieve! I just got "Holiday" stuck in my fuckin' head!

EV Grieve said...

@ Makeout

Better that than something off the MDNA album!

glamma said...

awesome thank you for the post : )

Anonymous said...

Trust me, nothing from MDNA will get stuck in your head.

Anonymous said...

Wish she was as interesting, truly inventive and subversive now as she was then. She owes the East Village for nurturing her and should be involved in nabe preservation.

Does anybody know if she is?

Anonymous said...

She's busy preserving Malawi and her collagen supply.

Anonymous said...

I only wish we had young, creative people like her moving to the neighborhood today. Sadly, they can't afford to come here now, and why would they want to now that the neighborhood has been taken over by the whoo-hoo crowd?