This ushered in a new rebellion, both political and artistic, which cultivated fertile soil for creative minds to release the reins of constraint and push the limits of established boundaries. Sex, prostitution and psychedelic drugs - the themes that saturate the Velvet Underground’s albums - were taking over society, especially in the Village where numerous artists found experimentation with drugs to be a transcendence into elevated states of mind. The idea was to have a contemporary point of view and to show how relevant the Velvets are today.” “For us, it was important that it was not to be a nostalgic exhibition, where we would have fake New York. “It’s a real experience, an experience of freedom, a dive into this exceptional moment of creation,” Fevret said. ![]() Photographs and banner for Cafe Bizarre, a famous club in the Village and the place where Andy Warhol discovered the Velvet Underground. 18, an up-and-coming musician, Adrian Jean, will be taking up residency in the studio, hoping to capture the same essence of soul as the Velvet Underground.ĭisplaying photographs, films and paraphernalia of artists like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Jonas Mekas and the band’s most notable collaborator Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground Experience builds a portal into time that allows people to see the true birth of one of music’s greatest groups, and the period that produced it.Ĭhristian Fevret, the co-curator and founder of French magazine “Les Inrockuptibles,” talks about what he hoped to achieve with the exhibit. It includes a Bandsintown Studio space in the sub-basement that will host various talks with experimental filmmakers, authors and music critics. Nestled in a gallery at 718 Broadway, just minutes from NYU’s campus, the exhibit immerses you in the underground movements that came to fruition in the heart of Greenwich Village. ![]() Set against the backdrop of the revolutionary ’60s, the Velvet Underground Experience, a new exhibit that revisits and spotlights the band as a centerpiece of rock history, is a walk through the era that shaped the band and its lasting cultural impact. ![]() Their names were Lou Reed and John Cale, and that meeting was the origin of the Velvet Underground. It was in 1964 that two musicians from vastly different backgrounds - one a Brooklyn-born rock ‘n’ roll zealot and the other a classically trained Welshman - met in New York City. Take a walk on the wild side and step back into the 1960s.
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