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In case you didn't see this yesterday. As The New York Times first reported:
On April 10 the Queens Museum will present “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk,” a retrospective exhibition that will examine the group’s influence on both music and art, as part of a spate of spring programming under the museum’s new director, Laura Raicovich, that focuses on Queens as a Petri dish of global culture.
The Ramones show, organized with the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, where a second part of the exhibition will open on Sept. 16, will include more than 350 objects, from the band’s archives and those of Arturo Vega, who designed the band’s logo; from artists like Shepard Fairey and Yoshitomo Nara; and from Mad magazine and Punk magazine, to demonstrate, as the museum says, how the Ramones “served as both subject and inspiration for many visual artists, resulting in a large body of works.”
Here's the Museum's official news release on the exhibit.
And via "Too Tough to Die" from 1984 ...
Hey! Ho! I'll go!
ReplyDeleteThis year is 40 years since I first saw the boys from my hometown, Forest Hills; who woulda thunk, that long-ago day, that the crazed band ripping up the stage in front of me would someday have museum exhibitions devoted to them? Amazing - only sorry none of them are still around to see it.