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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 ‘Tom the Priest’. Gus Van Sant talks with PKM’s David Stewart about the lingering influence of Jac...