Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center’s exhibition Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars includes the banners painted for Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, the King and Queen of the 2010 Mermaid Parade.

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“The full archive is enormous, with about 600 hours of audio, along with videos, correspondence, legal paperwork and forms of documentation that range from photos of a White House visit in 1998 to endless petty-cash receipts from life on the road in the 1970s. There are tour rehearsals, audio experiments, handwritten lyrics, stacks of Velvet Underground bootlegs and even Coney Island Mermaid Parade banners from 2010, when Reed and Anderson served as king and queen.”

- Ben Sisario, “‘You Don’t Become Lou Reed Overnight.’ A New Exhibition Proves It.”, The New York Times