The Legacy of Arturo Vega, Art Director of the Ramones

Подробнее о видео

The Legacy of Arturo Vega, Art Director of the Ramones - Marc H. Miller with artist Ted Riederer, arts writer Sandra Schulman, and musician and photographer Chris Stein

#2 in the Pop to Punk: Ramones and Visual Art conversation series at the Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk exhibit at Queens Museum on Jun 19 2016

The Ramones found a co-conspirator in Arturo Vega (1947–2013), who drew on his background in screen-printing to make posters and t-shirts for the band. As the band’s art director, Vega incorporated neo-classical pomp into their stage backdrops and lighting. In consultation with the Ramones, Vega designed their heraldic logo, a riff on the U.S. presidential seal.

Artist Ted Riederer worked with Arturo in his final years and is now the gallery director of the non-profit art space Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project. Sandra Schulman knew Vega from the Lower East Side art scene of the 1980s, and later curated an exhibition of his paintings in Miami Beach. Her book, Spiritual America: the Catalog, recounts her experience at the legendary gallery founded by Richard Prince. Chris Stein got to know the Ramones at CBGB, and soon joined them as a fixture at Arturo Vega’s loft around the corner. A trained artist, Stein shared Vega’s and the Ramones’ interest in visual branding, and used his photography to create (with singer Deborah Harry) Blondie’s popular image.. Moderator Marc H. Miller, the co-curator of Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, was one of the curators of the 1978 exhibition Punk Art at the Washington Project for the Arts.