PORTLAND, ME.- A book signing and panel discussion event for the recently published monograph, “Sight and Sound” (Rizzoli Electa), on the music and visual art of the late Bob Crewe, is scheduled for Thursday, June 24th, from 5:30-7:30pm at Cove Street Arts in Portland. Announcement was made by Kelley Lehr, co-director and co-founder of the gallery with partner John Danos, who have also debuted a solo exhibition of selected artworks by the prolific songwriter and artist. “Bob Crewe: Discovery, Invention, Form,” is on view through July 10th.

On hand to sign books and participate in the panel discussion will be Dan Crewe, brother of Bob Crewe, music business manager and founder of the Portland-based Crewe Foundation; and Jessica May, former chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art, and current creative director at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, who contributed the Foreword for the book.

“Sight and Sound” explores the many facets of Bob Crewe and the Crewe legacy that has been carried on by Dan Crewe, through essays by WSJ art critic Peter Plagens; Andrew Loog Oldham, legendary impresario and founding manager of the Rolling Stones and close friend of the Crewe brothers; and Donald Albrecht, author of many books, and longtime curator of the Museum of the City of New York. Albrecht’s probing essay examines the stultifying cultural milieu of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene for a gay man.

Founded in 2019 by Lehr and Danos, Cove Street Arts features an 8,000 square foot exhibition space dedicated to showing “the incredible depth and breadth of art being made in the state of Maine.”

“It is our great pleasure to participate in the reintroduction of Bob Crewe’s elegant and sophisticated visual artwork,” said Lehr, “and it looks fabulous in this space.”