ONE NATION UNDERGROUND: PUNK AND VISUAL CULTURE 1976-1985

02.03.22 - 05.01.22

Forty years ago, Georgetown was at the center of a cultural explosion called punk rock. From 1979-1985, punk, new wave, and funk bands regularly played in the University’s Walsh building. This exhibition features works from the Andrew Krivine collection in New York, including posters, flyers, and pins featuring bands that played the Walsh building’s “Hall of Nations” and others, the larger DC musical ecosystem, and a broader revolution in graphics. The exhibition shows the ways in which those in the District were in artistic dialogue with a larger global sensibility that changed the way people viewed art, music, and politics forever.

Unknown Artist, Bow Wow Wow DC Concert Flyer, 1982. Mixed-media on paper. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Courtesy of Andrew Krivine.