The 1967 “season of love” lasted about a summer and ½ but its one of those events, like the real “Woodstock“, where just too, too many people say they were there.A time when the word “psychedelic” was used for everything – from songs to food. The entire decade left a treasure trove of great music, colorful posters, art work, patch work leather/suede hand bags and the names we still know, Warhol, Avedon, Hendrix – the “Summer of Love” lives on. (Classic rock stations still play: IN A GADDA DA VIDA, by Iron Butterfly – “In a Gadda Da Vida hooooney, don’t you know that I looo-oove you” – I think that’s what he says?)
Art, film, video and music – all part of the exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art ‘til Sept 16, 2007.
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“Hippies on the Corner of Haight and Ashbury”, Gene Anthony, 1967