What band is Grace Slick commonly associated with?”
When we set out to produce a series of Woodstock 40th-anniversary pieces, somebody asked, “Whatever happened to Grace Slick?” We’re happy to inform you that the former Jefferson Airplane singer is alive, well, and a visual artist based in Malibu, California. (She retired from music 20 years ago.) Although she’ll turn 70 in October, she’s colorful, candid and as opinionated as ever. Her bright blue eyes are unflinching — the same eyes that fascinated a generation of male fans in the late ’60s and ’70s. Only now, her hair is pure white, tied in a long ponytail streaming down her back. We met up with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer at Gallery 319 in Santa Monica, California, which features a number of her paintings. (You can see examples of her work at AreaArts.com.) Unlike her words — which can be acerbic, as well as amusing — some of her art has a naive playfulness to it. There’s a gentle-looking Jerry Garcia. Janis Joplin’s face beams beneath a crown of flowers. A large painting cal
BETHEL, N.Y., Aug. 16 — Tie-dye and peace symbols were everywhere at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Saturday, and many of the people wearing them were pointing at a grassy hillside and saying, “When I was here in 1969. …”The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. More Arts News Forty years after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on the site of what was Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, Bethel Woods was the obvious anniversary stop for the Heroes of Woodstock tour, featuring groups — Jefferson Starship, Ten Years After, Canned Heat — whose members performed at the festival on Aug. 15 to 17, 1969. Sam Yasgur, Max’s son, said from the stage that his father would have been overjoyed that there was still “fun and music” on the land. Things were different, to say the least. There was no gate crashing, no mud, no shortage of food, no warnings of bad LSD. The sold-out crowd of 15,000 was less than 5
