“Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era” could be a crowd-pleaser — luring children of the 1960s who aren’t on a beach somewhere into a museum for a slightly hazy trip down memory lane. But the ...
We don’t think of the psychedelic artists of the 1960s the same way we do the abstract expressionists of the 1940s or the Impressionists who came a century before. But an art historian can see the ...
"This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested ...
Last year, Hannah Rothstein was sitting in a lobby when she noticed a wall decorated with '60s psychedelic rock posters. Naturally, the display immediately brought climate change to mind. It's not as ...
Heading out to the Walker Art Center this fall is a trip, and not just because it’s in Minneapolis. Bright yellow and green psychedelia lines the walls, the kaleidoscopic repetitions of Isaac Abrams’ ...
Twentieth-century modernism and its often extreme art movements produced talented artists who inevitably fell through the cracks, and whose work curators are still rediscovering. The name Burt ...
The 1960s was the peak of many trends in classic rock. For example, ’60s psychedelic rock songs are probably better than the psychedelic rock songs of any other era. Notably, John Lennon said The ...
One of the most unique sub-genres to ever come out of rock ‘n’ roll is psychedelic rock. It ruled a whole generation and was arguably the genre of the ’60s. Following its peak, psychedelic rock ...
'60s Psychedelic Rock Icon Dies at 82 originally appeared on Parade. Psychedelic rock pioneer James Lowe, of The Electric Prunes, has died at age 82. Lowe's family — namely his three children — ...
Many seek to define what makes art styles psychedelic. There’s a common belief that mind-bending art can only come directly from the hallucinations and experiences of psychedelic artists. Another ...