The Stones, as chronicled in the Saatchi Gallery’s EXHIBITIONISM, presents a highly entertaining, more Interview than ArtForum, exhibition reflecting the band’s history through film, artifacts/paraphernalia/junk (depending on the eye of the beholder), and stage sets which include a recreation of their first Chelsea flat, which was, coincidentally, adjacent to my first London flat 25 years later….

Best of all, EXHIBITIONISM displays, in full-frontal fashion, the band’s unforgettable (and at times, unforgivable)  stage costumes worn through the years.  Some are iconic, but all reflect the showmanship and character which define that rock star attitude we salute…
in our collection, and in ourselves.

The show ends this weekend in London, but travels to New York November 12th.