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Morrison Hotel to set up shop in former CBGB's gallery

Writer: Julia Reidy
News, Published online on 24 Mar 2008

[Above: an artist's rendering of the new storefront]

313 Bowery in New York City's East Village, once home to the famous CBGB's Gallery, will once again make way for music. Or pictures of it, rather. Fine art music photography powerhouse, Morrison Hotel, will be taking over the cavernous (3000 sq. ft.) area once occupied by CBGB's. The Morrison Hotel Gallery currently has spaces located in Soho, Los Angeles and La Jolla, but this will be by far their largest gallery space. They'll present shows in conjunction with the Max's Kansas City Project, which dedicates itself to providing emergency funding to creative individuals.

The inside of the area will change for each exhibition, the first of which is to come from British photographer and mixed media artist Steve Joester, famous for his work with British punk's first wave and with the London riots of 1976. That exhibition begins March 27.

After the opening, work from New York photographer Bob Gruen will move in, featuring his photographs of John Lennon, The Clash and many others, as well as an architectural centerpiece of a 1970s punk-obsessed teenager's bedroom designed by Tito Ficarelli.

CBGB's Gallery and CBGB's itself closed in 2006, but the Morrison says it plans to preserve much of the iconography associated with the old performance spaces. Still present will be "the bathroom graffiti, an original wall logo stencil and a panel of show posters and hand-bills from CBGB's 10th anniversary that were buried in an inner wall."

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Morrison Hotel to set up shop in former CBGB's gallery

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