IF YOU GO
Some of Peter Max’s art can be found at Music City Fine Art, 219 Fifth Ave. N., Nashville. Hours: 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Tues- day-Saturday. 931-313-9613.
Peter Max sits in his New York studio on West 65th Street, doing a telephone interview while staring at the walls, which he says are covered top to bottom with more than 120 magazine covers bearing images of some of the biggest celebrities in the world.
They are a fraction of the more than 2,200 covers he’s done over the years, he says.
“It’s amazing,” he says in his distinctive voice that bounces from European to Bronx-tinged in the same sentence. “I’m looking at a wall right now in my studio with all these magazine covers. I’m looking at The Beatles, Ringo [Starr], George [Harrison], John Lennon. I have three [Paul] McCartney covers. David Bowie, Frank Sinatra.”