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Includes screening of "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" and Q&A with Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Melissa Auf Der Maur
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Hudson, NY (March 21, 2024) – Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House presents a solo exhibition by artist, author, and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Lindsay-Hogg is best known for his collaborations with Rock’n Roll luminaries The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and many others. As a painter, Lindsay-Hogg’s work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Paris, and are held in many private collections. Curated by Carol McCranie and Javier Magri of HUDSON BRICK LLC, an Art Advisory based in Hudson, NY, and Lisa Ticknor, the exhibition opens Saturday, April 20, 2024 with a reception with the artist from 5-7pm and is on view until June 2, 2024.
WHAT: Art exhibition of paintings by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Curated by Carol McCranie and Javier Magri of HUDSON BRICK LLC, and Lisa Ticknor.
WHEN: Opening reception Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 5-7pm; on view to June 2, 2024.
WHERE: Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson NY
In conjunction with the exhibition, a screening of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968, dir. Michael Lindsay Hogg, 63min) takes place on Saturday, May 4 at 7pm, preceded by a Q&A with Lindsay-Hogg and musician and Co-Director and Founder of Basilica Hudson, Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins).
A self-taught artist, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s work shows the eccentricity and peculiarity of outsider art and the sophistication of a dry gin martini. He only draws and paints people from his imagination, and in some of the paintings there is a sense of tension between the figures, something unresolved. Who might, or might not, come out on top?
At the age of 24, Lindsay-Hogg was in London, directing Ready Steady Go!, widely acknowledged as the greatest live television rock and roll show of all time. He has been credited as an inventor of the rock and roll video, which he pioneered with some of the world’s most successful and influential bands. As Lindsay-Hogg has said, “If you have The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, you can’t go too far wrong.”
Lindsay-Hogg’s music videos include four with The Beatles, including ‘Revolution’ and ‘Hey Jude’; two with The Who, starting with their first video, ‘Happy Jack’; and a 15-year collaboration with The Rolling Stones from ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ to ‘Waiting on a Friend’. In 1968, he conceived and directed The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which was released at the 1996 New York Film Festival to much acclaim. Lindsay-Hogg directed The Beatles’ documentary, Let It Be. The film famously ends with The Beatles performing on a rooftop, where he coaxed them for their final concert.
Lindsay-Hogg was nominated for four BAFTA awards and won for the much-lauded television series, Brideshead Revisited (1982). His movie, The Object of Beauty (1991), starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell, won Best Director/Best Film at the Cairo International Film Festival. He has directed three plays on Broadway, receiving one Tony nomination. And at New York’s Public Theatre, he directed the first production of Larry Kramer’s famous play about the AIDS epidemic, ‘The Normal Heart’.
His memoir, Luck and Circumstance, was published to good reviews in 2011, earning praise from Wes Anderson, Lorne Michaels, and Mick Jagger, among others.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s mother, Irish actress Geraldine Fitzgerald (who was nominated for an Oscar for her first American movie, Wuthering Heights) was part of a lively set of actors and directors of the time — Humphrey Bogart, Olivia De Havilland, John Huston, and the great war photographer, Robert Capa, among others. Her romance with Orson Welles, complex and enduring, affected much of her son’s life.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg now paints in his home in Hudson, New York, and sometimes recalls a question he asked his mother at the age of seven, “Can you prove to me that I’m a child and not an old man dreaming of my youth?"
Exhibition Hours:
Tuesday – Friday, 9am to 5pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
April 20 through June 2, 2024
HUDSON HALL AT THE HISTORIC HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
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Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and large-scale community events. Located in an historic landmark that houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in April 2017 for the first time in over 55 years. The newly restored Hudson Hall reflects Hudson's rich history in a modern facility that welcomes residents and visitors from throughout our local community, across the nation, and around the globe.
Image: Untitled, oil on wood, 24 x 18, by Michael Lindsay-HOgg
MEDIA CONTACT:
Caroline Lee
caroline@hudsonhall.org
(518) 822-1438