Rubin Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
150 W 17th St
212.620.5000
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- When
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Friday Mar 27, 2009 (9:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: A, C or E to 14th Street; 1 to 18th Street; 1, 2, 3 to 14th Street; F and M to 14th Street; N, R, Q, 4, 5 and 6 to 14th or the L to 6th Avenue. Bus: B20 to the corner of 7th Avenue and 17th Street.
- Price
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FREE w/ $7 minimum bar purchase
- Links
Let it bleed, indeed. Albert and David Maysles' immersive Rolling Stones doc Gimme Shelter — titled after the brooding lead track on the band's legendary 1969 album — captures the buildup to the bloody, era-ending concert at Altamont Speedway. While the rock annals indicate that 18-year-old Meredith Hunter was knifed by a Hell's Angel during the Stones' set (the band illogically hired the Oakland chapter as muscle for this 300,000-person-capacity gig), the Maysles' searching camera shows the fateful act. Tonight, multimedia artist Doug Aitken presents the wild classic, which, despite its eventual elegiac tone, electrifies with intimate footage of band recording sessions and (obviously) Mick Jagger restlessly strutting and shimmying in his various costumes.
