Blu-ray: Luminous Procuress
An offbeat counterculture classic Review by Graham Rickson
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An offbeat counterculture classic Review by Graham Rickson
Warhol and Dalí loved it – but Luminous Procuress, Steven Arnold’s trippy sex film, was never widely released. Now on Blu-ray, it offers a rare glimpse into the artist’s esoteric world
Sam Whiting January 7, 2021Updated: January 10, 2021, 6:21 pm The moment of impact at “Media Burn” in 1975 — as a Cadillac rammed a mountain of TVs — was just part of the goings-on around the art event in the Cow Palace parking lot. Photo: John F. Turner Driving a finned 1959 Cadillac Eldorado through a stack of TV consoles in the Cow Palace parking lot was the easy part. Producing a book on the explosive public art intervention is what took 45 years to complete. But art curator Steve Seid could not let go of the legend of “Media Burn,” the event staged July 4, 1975, ...