Billy Hough & The Garage Dogs play The Velvet Underground. Provincetown 2025.
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SUZANNE VALADON
After posing for the leading artists of Montmartre, Suzanne Valadon claimed the studio for herself, painting forceful portraits and unsentimental nudes defined by muscular lines and fearless observation.
RUDOLPH VALENTINO
Silent-screen idol Rudolph Valentino reshaped Hollywood masculinity through sensuality, elegance and exotic romance, inspiring worldwide hysteria during his life and after his death at thirty-one.
RUDY VALLÉE
Crooner and bandleader Rudy Vallée used radio and the new electrical microphone to turn intimate singing into mass entertainment, becoming one of America’s first modern pop idols.
SHARON VAN ETTEN
Singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten transforms emotional wreckage into expansive alternative music, pairing an elemental voice with songs that move from stark confession to overwhelming release.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Vincent van Gogh charged landscapes, portraits and ordinary objects with turbulent color and urgent brushwork, creating a deeply personal language that transformed modern painting.
DAVE VAN RONK
Known as the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk anchored the Greenwich Village folk revival with a gravelly voice, formidable guitar playing and generous guidance to younger musicians.
GUS VAN SANT
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant moves between Hollywood and the avant-garde, finding poetry in outsiders, drifters and young people navigating desire, isolation and the American landscape.
CARL VAN VECHTEN
Writer, patron and photographer Carl Van Vechten moved through the Harlem Renaissance as both advocate and controversial interpreter, leaving an extraordinary portrait archive of twentieth-century Black artists.
DON VAN VLIET
As Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet bent blues, free jazz, poetry and rock into a disciplined musical delirium before abandoning the stage to devote himself entirely to painting.
ANDREW VANWYNGARDEN
MGMT co-founder Andrew VanWyngarden turned psychedelic experimentation, melodic instinct and an uneasy relationship with fame into alternative pop that questions the fantasies it appears to celebrate.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Townes Van Zandt distilled sorrow, drifting and hard-won beauty into stark country songs whose quiet precision earned him reverence far beyond his commercial reach.
REMEDIOS VARO
Surrealist painter Remedios Varo populated meticulously rendered worlds with alchemists, wanderers and mystical machines, transforming exile and scientific curiosity into private mythology.
GIORGIO VASARI
Painter, architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari helped define the Renaissance as a historical idea through his influential Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
ALAN VEGA
As the voice of Suicide, Alan Vega fused rockabilly menace, electronic repetition and confrontational performance into a sound that helped clear the ground for punk and industrial music.
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
The Velvet Underground joined street-level storytelling, drone, distortion and avant-garde experiment to create a body of work that became the foundation for generations of alternative music.
JESSE VENTURA
Professional wrestler and broadcaster Jesse Ventura converted outsider celebrity into political power, stunning the establishment with his election as governor of Minnesota.
VASILY VERESHCHAGIN
Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin witnessed war firsthand and rejected heroic spectacle, confronting audiences with its ruined landscapes, anonymous casualties and machinery of empire.
ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO
Florentine sculptor, painter and master teacher Andrea del Verrocchio directed one of the Renaissance’s most influential workshops, where Leonardo da Vinci learned to unite observation, movement and form.
VERUSCHKA
Model and artist Veruschka transformed fashion photography through radical poses, body painting and theatrical self-invention, becoming one of the defining faces of the 1960s.
SID VICIOUS
Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious became punk’s most destructive symbol, a sneering embodiment of rebellion whose image, addiction and doomed relationship with Nancy Spungen eclipsed the music itself.
GORE VIDAL
Novelist, essayist and public contrarian Gore Vidal dissected American power, sexuality and historical myth with patrician authority, wicked precision and an inexhaustible appetite for argument.
GENE VINCENT
Gene Vincent gave rockabilly a dangerous new charge with black leather, a damaged gait and the breathless stop-start eruption of “Be-Bop-A-Lula.”
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Venetian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi brought rhythmic propulsion, vivid atmosphere and instrumental color to the Baroque concerto, most famously in The Four Seasons.
MARK VOLMAN
Mark Volman carried the Turtles’ harmony-rich pop into the anarchic comedy of Flo & Eddie, becoming a distinctive singer, satirist and conspirator across decades of American rock & roll.
VOLTAIRE
Voltaire armed the Enlightenment with wit, using satire, argument and relentless provocation to attack religious intolerance, political tyranny and the comfortable certainties of his age.
KURT VONNEGUT
Kurt Vonnegut used science fiction, gallows humor and deceptive simplicity to expose the absurd machinery of war, commerce and human cruelty while stubbornly defending kindness.
HANK VON HELVETE
As the flamboyant frontman of Turbonegro, Hank von Helvete turned punk, glam and hard rock into a provocative spectacle of denim, theatrical excess and knowingly outrageous masculinity.
NENA VON SCHLEBRÜGGE
Swedish-born model Nena von Schlebrügge became one of the striking faces of 1950s fashion before leaving that world for a life devoted to Tibetan Buddhist practice and scholarship.
MARY HEATON VORSE
Writer, labor journalist and Provincetown Players founder Mary Heaton Vorse documented strikes, political struggle and working people while helping turn Provincetown into a laboratory for modern American theatre.
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