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The American polymath was in and out of classical music, jazz, pop and poetry decades before publicists developed the genre-busting tic

A dominatrix in heels and feathers, a Warhol alumni who whip-danced for the Velvet Underground, a feminist trailblazer … ahead of major Barbican show, three giant personalities relive sitting for the great American artist

She immortalised New York’s bohemia and her own joys and struggles in paintings powerfully alert to body language and psychological vulnerabilities

The leading New York 'Beat' Painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie has died aged 95. Leslie was born in the Bronx in 1927

As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac and fellow Beats William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Then, as an aspiring filmmaker at RISD—where classmates included future Talking Heads—he was influenced by a visit to Italy, where he watched the Fellini film Casanova and met Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Beat influence can be seen in his first film, Mala Noche (1986), and even more so in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), in which Burroughs portrays ‘T...

A new collection of Gregory Corso's plays is out on Tough Poets Press Jan. 4. PKM spoke with publisher Richard Schober about Corso’s legacy.

Composer David Amram and his children have launched the After The Fall Records label and imprint. One of their first releases will be Pull My Daisy: The Original Soundtrack by Jack Kerouac and Amram. Noah Lekas spoke with David Amram for PKM.

“Mary Frank: The Observing Heart,” a retrospective of the Hudson Valley artist's work, opens February 5 at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz

Pull My Daisy 1959 Film Still The Lower East Side Heritage Film Series at Seward Park Library has a fun line-up this month.  This Tuesday they will focus on “Bubbies & Beats.” On the program: (1959, 29 min., 16mm) “Friday morning in the universe…” is the opening line of Jack Kerouac’s improvisational narration of a day in the life of the Beat poets. In a Bowery loft, a railyard worker plays host to the Beat poets, a visiting Bishop, his sister and mother. Awarded the first prize f...

The Value of Didactic Art This week, executive editor Lloyd Wise looks back at April 1967’s “The Value of Didactic Art,” one of the many benchmark essays written for  Artforum in its early years by the critic, curator, and art historian Barbara Rose (1936–2020). Rose is celebrated and remembered by her friend and colleague Margit Rowell in our April issue. To read Barbara Rose is to partake in her “immense excitement and pleasure,” writes Rowell. Nowhere is th...