{"id":165076,"date":"2025-11-28T23:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165076\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:47:12","slug":"a-look-at-50-years-of-punk-opening-tonight-at-the-ki-smith-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165076\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at ’50 Years of PUNK,’ opening tonight at the Ki Smith Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fifty years after a photocopied zine from downtown New York helped light the fuse for punk, the spirit of that era is crackling again on the Lower East Side \u2014 this time inside the Ki Smith Gallery<\/a>, where “50 Years of PUNK” opens tonight.\u00a0Earlier this week, I stopped by the gallery, 170 Forsyth St., between Stanton and Rivington, as East Village resident John Holmstrom, the co-founder, editor, and illustrator of PUNK Magazine<\/a>, and gallery owner Ki Smith, were putting the exhibit together…<\/p>\n

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The show brings together original work from artists, photographers and contributors who shaped \u2014 and were shaped by \u2014 PUNK Magazine, which championed the Ramones before their first record, put Blondie in print, and turned fanzine culture into something louder and more visual.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 13, 2-6 p.m. \u2014 Clothing Sale\/Fashion Show. A Christmas sale featuring PUNK Magazine clothing, swag and memorabilia, including some rarely seen items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jan. 7, 7-10 p.m. \u2014 Sex Pistols Tour Film Script: The Live Show. A reading of Holmstrom’s account of the 1978 Sex Pistols U.S. tour, accompanied by images, on the tour’s 48th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Early January \u2014 The Making of PUNK #1
\nDate TBD. Filmmaker Mary Harron, Holmstrom and others involved with the first issue will discuss how it came together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jan. 11, 7 p.m. \u2014 Closing Party. Details to come.<\/p>\n

Visit the gallery site<\/a> for updates on programming as well as the list of the many notable contributors and photographers who made the publication a success.<\/p>\n

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“50 Years of PUNK” runs through Jan. 11. Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

The opening reception is from 6-9 tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0 Fifty years after a photocopied zine from downtown New York helped light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-165076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}