For anyone who followed the music produced by some of the biggest and most influential artists of the late 1960s through early 1990s—we're talking the apex of the pyramid artists like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles (individually), Elton John, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, among many others—a trip through an exhibit at the Elizabeth De C. Wilson museum at the Southern Vermont Arts Center—"Legends of Rock & Roll:" From the Lens of George Kalinsky - will likely summon a floodtide of memories. Collectively, the 40-odd photographs taken during concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden offer a view into a now vanished past, when these former titans were at their youthful peaks, the way those of a now "certain age" want to remember them, and ourselves, when catching The Stones, The Dead or Janis or Elvis was about as high up the food chain of life as it was possible to go.
Past Reunites at SVAC Show
By Andrew McKeever, Manchester Journal
June 28, 2012
Across the hall from Kalinsky's show is an equally intriguing, if different show of paintings and sculpture by portrait artist Joe Fig, whose unusual work manages to be both edgy and familiar simultaneously. And across the oval at the Yester House, home base for the arts center, a magnificent exhibit of paintings of flowers, titled "Stamens and Stems" is also underway. The three exhibits offer something for almost everyone. Kalinsky is the official photographer of Madison Square Garden, arguably one of the best known entertainment venues in the world, and he landed what many would consider a dream job in 1968. He literally got a front row seat - plus stage access - for some of the biggest and best talent of the era. More than 40 years later, he's still there, photographing the major concerts.
