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  • Robert Whitaker, Allen Ginsburg, Hyde Park, 1967, color photograph, 47 3/8 x 32". From “Summer of Love.”

    Robert Whitaker, Allen Ginsburg, Hyde Park, 1967, color photograph, 47 3/8 x 32". From “Summer of Love.”

    “Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era”

    Tate Liverpool
    Albert Dock
    May 27–September 25, 2005

    Curated by Christoph Grunenberg

    They called themselves freaks and found their love style in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Herman Hesse novels, Beat poetry, and progressive rock, not to mention the hallucinatory drugs that made forms melt and time compress. Taking its title from the fabled California summer of 1967, this show of over one hundred artists of every stripe—Cecil Beaton, Jimi Hendrix, Milton Glaser, Yayoi Kusama, Lord Snowdon, and so on—revisits the heady, often tasteless, hippie era, circa 1965–72. In addition, documentary films, posters, magazines, multimedia installations, and more help revive the acid trips, conspiracy theories, be-ins, sit-ins, and peace marches that generated the New Age movement.

    Travels to the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Nov. 2, 2005–Feb. 12, 2006.

    — Jeff Rian