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Warhol heralded the theatric event as America's first 'Mod Wedding' - and it certainly lived up to its definition as a non-traditional, the bride and some of her 4,500 guests have now attested to.
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action, by Nadja Millner-Larsen, University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288 pages.THERE ARE MANY PATHS through the radical arts of the 1960s. Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action takes one back alley and turns it into a bustling boulevard.Her central figure: Ben Morea, artist-activist and acolyte of the Living Theatre and of East Village anarchist Murray Bookchin; member of Aldo Tambellini’s anti-commodification mixed-media Group Center; cofounder of the Neo-Dada provocateurs known as Black Mask (their name likely...
As Finland’s ground-breaking Flow Festival hosts the penultimate edition of residency in Suvilahti, Best Fit discovers how Flow mirrors its hometown of Helsinki.
The Pop iconoclast obsessively documented his life, but he also lied constantly, almost recreationally.