Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It was like realizing your parents have a life outside of you and you’re not a kid anymore.”
Allen Ginsberg
Books
Allen Ginsberg: Poet on the Move
The poet travelled to 66 countries and left traces of each one in his poetry.
Film
In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist
Errol Morris's film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.
Art
Tracking the Beat Generation Across Three Continents
PARIS — Though almost entirely lacking a female presence — artist Jay DeFeo and poet Diane Di Prima being the exceptions that prove the rule — the Centre Pompidou’s airily laid out retrospective of the Beat Generation is otherwise flawless.
Art
On His 100th Birthday, a Conference Considers William Burroughs's Humanist Legacy
PARIS — With determined indeterminacy, young Mathilde Louette initiated a perplexing but hip four-hour English-language celebration of William S. Burroughs’s 100th birthday on December 12 in Paris, where the writer lived, on and off, between 1958 and 1966.
News
'Partisan Review' Digitizes 70-Year Archive
The archives of Partisan Review, the totemic 20th-century journal of politics and the arts, have finally been fully digitized.
Art
Watching the Beats Grow Old
From 1953 to 1963 — a period that corresponds with the publication of his most celebrated works — Allen Ginsberg snapped photographs of his cohort of soon-to-be famous friends. These shots weren’t intended for exhibition; they were mementos, thrown in the back of a drawer. He unearthed them two deca
Art
"I Noticed My Friends": Allen Ginsberg's Photography
In his poem "America" (1956) Allen Ginsberg addresses the nation as if it were a codependent lover, asking, "Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?" followed immediately by the confession, "I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week."
Interview
The Scaffolding Saints of the Lower East Side
Tom Sanford and Graham Preston's latest project, "Saints of the Lower East Side" (2012), remembers "when," or more precisely marches out some of the progressive history of an area that has been mostly reduced to cool tshirts from a bygone era.
Art
Poets and Popcorn
America, says Charlie Citrine in Saul Bellow’s novel Humboldt’s Gift (1975), is proud of its dead poets. Especially the mad ones: the bridge-leapers, the drink-guzzlers, the pill-snackers. Robert Lowell thought everyone was tired of his turmoil, but he obviously wasn’t thinking ahead to the possibil
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News
Short Films by Jonas Mekas Surface Online [UPDATED]
In light of yesterday’s shocking news that avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas is suing art dealer Harry Stendhal for a supposed swindle, I wanted to share one positive highlight of the business relationship between Stendhal and Mekas that just surfaced online … 14 short films, which include three epi
News
Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Photographs on Display
I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi