Film
The Velvet Underground Brings the New York of the ’60s Back to Life
With dense split-screen use of period artifacts and a killer Velvets soundtrack, Todd Haynes’s documentary is a loving tribute to his favorite band.
Nico
Film
A New Biopic About Nico, Warhol’s “It” Girl and Velvet Underground Singer
In a new biopic, Nico, 1988, director Susanna Nicchiarelli documents the tumultuous final years of The Velvet Underground's Nico.
Art
At the Broad, an Evening of Performances Inspired by Nico
On June 24, Warhol Icon kicks off the museum's Summer Happenings series with multimedia performances evoking the Velvet Underground singer and artist.
Art
The Quirky Invincibility of Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free
The Squat Theater, an itinerate group of mostly Hungarian political theatre emigrés decamped to NY in the 1970’s, barreling and slaking their way through the uber-outré squalor of an infrastructure challenged city, then self-imploded circa 1985.