THE Rolling Stones dug deep into their archives to deliver an immersive, whirlwind tour through their storied, 50-year career. Their first major exhibit, aptly titled “Exhibitionism,” opened this month at a private gallery in New York’s West Village.

    Curator Ileen Gallagher, a native New Yorker, said she did not want the exhibition to be organized chronologically because that implies a beginning, middle and end — the band is keen on carrying on.

    “There’s no end basically. So we thought the best way to present it, after giving visitors an introduction to the band’s early years, was to organize the rest of the exhibit thematically,” she said in an interview this week with Yahoo News. “It allowed us to create environmental installations in each of the rooms.”

    For instance, the exhibit’s team re-created a Stones recording studio with their original instruments for the section on recording, built a cinema for the portion on Stones films and formed a bona fide art gallery for the area on art and design, which includes a retrospective of their album covers, posters and set designs.

    “This allowed us to move you into different environments as you were experiencing these different themes,” Gallagher said.

    This journey begins in London with a meticulous re-creation of the grungy flat on Edith Grove where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones lived in 1962.

    (SD-Agencies)