Allen Ginsberg

What To Do This Weekend: B'wick Open Studios, Howl And JB Smoove

Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Video, New York Weekend Events, Bushwick Open Studios, NY Around Town, Bushwick, Allen Ginsberg Howl, Jb Smoove, Allen Ginsberg, New York Events, New York News

Bushwick Open Studios Where: Various locations When: Friday-Saturday Price: Free Arts in Bushwick celebrates its 6th year organizing Bushwick Open...

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Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.27.2012

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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A Poem for the Marcellus

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Earth Day 2012, Allen Ginsberg Howl, Marcellus Shale, National Poetry Month, Fracking, Allen Ginsberg, Earth Day, Poem, Green News

In honor of both National Poetry Month and Earth Day, I offer below a love song to the bedrock: the methane-suffused shale that geologists call the Marcellus, which now lies in the crosshairs of the oil and gas industry.

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Cleto Munari Auctions His Collection

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Furniture, Carlo Scarpa, Jack Kerouac, Poet, Architecture, Robert Venturi, Jewelry, Allen Ginsberg, Silverware, Gregory Corso, Artist, Designers, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Cleto Munari, Arts News

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...

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Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: On the Road, Ed Ruscha on the Road, Jack Kerouac, Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art, Ed Ruscha Denver, Ed Ruscha, Beat Poetry, Beat Generation, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Allen Ginsberg, Denver Art Museum, Arts News

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

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Mekas And Polidori: From Manhattan To The Middle East

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Edwynn Houk Gallery, Photography, Slidewide, Mekas and Polidori, Robert Polidori, Yoko Ono, Jackie O, Jackie Onassis, Film, Allen Ginsberg, Video, Edie Sedgwick, Jonas Mekas, New York Exhibitions, Arts News

The exhibition "Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori: Portraits" is a never-before seen collection of two longtime friends whose work capture two different...

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'A Poem Is A Song. It Is In Your Heart And You Can Breathe It With Your Mouth.'

John R. Eperjesi | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Beat Generation, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, South Korea, Poetry, Gary Snyder, Culture News

Rainhat's gently staggering poems are spontaneous, lyrical, physical and immediate. When his grandmother, a farmer, tells him she doesn't understand poems, he explains to her, "A poem is a song. It is in your heart and you can breathe it with your mouth."

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Jarmusch Narrates AWESOME Tour Of Village's Poets (And Other Great Walking Tours)

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Miguel Pinero, East Village, New York City Walking Tours, Lower East Side, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, New York Travel, Poetry Foundation, Allen Ginsberg, Ny Travel, Slidepollajax, Kenneth Koch, Poetry, Jim Jarmusch, New York News

With Spring and walking-weather approaching, a reader tipped off EV Grieve to a great new audio tour of the East Village. According to UnionDocs: "...

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Barney Rosset, Richard Seaver, and William Burroughs in Midcentury Paris

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.02.2012

Barney Rosset died last week at age 89, and for those who valued his contribution to upholding First Amendment rights in this country, his championing the works of artists, the event truly marks the end of an era.

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'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll

Jan Herman | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: The Fugs, Ed Sanders, Thomas Pynchon, V., Peace Eye Bookstore, Lower East Side, Allen Ginsberg, The Chicago 7 Trial, Books News

FUG YOU reads like a nonfiction outtake from Thomas Pynchon's V. The tales Sanders tells, bizarre but true, are buttressed by illustrations and citations from a mammoth archive he compiled through the years.

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Edvard Munch and Personal Art

David Galenson | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Arts News

In a 1999 essay, Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at the U. of Amsterdam and chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, noted that Rembrandt had painted himself at least 40 times, had etched himself 31 times, and had drawn a handful of self-portraits.

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Johanna Demetrakas' Crazy Wisdom: Can It Ever Be?

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Chögyam Trungpa, Johanna Demetrakas, Tibet, Pablo Bryant, Ram Dass, Robert Thurman, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Crazy Wisdom, Rubin Museum of Art, Laemmle Theater, Kino Lorber, Culture News

Whatever one takes away from Crazy Wisdom, one thing is certain: Chogyam Trungpa is a spellbinding subject, one absolutely perfect to inspire a future generation of spiritualism.

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Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male

Tom Teicholz | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Cubism, Robert Heinecken, Picasso, Surrealism, Beat, Jazz, Russ Tamblyn, Pacific Standard Time, Neil Young, Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg, Pornography, Assemblage Art, Topanga, Dada, Wallace Berman, Charlie Parker, Bracque, Arts News

All too rare is an art exhibition that invites the viewer to share in the joy of discovery, engaging us as confidants in new revelations that suddenly seem self-evident. "Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976," is just such an exhibition.

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The Great Drug-Induced Poems

John Lundberg | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Opium Poetry, Lsd Literature, Lsd Poetry, Opium Literature, Drugs Literature, Drugs Poetry, Drugs Authors, Drugs, Allen Ginsberg, Books News

There's quite a rich legacy of drug-induced poetry in Western literature.

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PHOTOS: 9 Great Graphic Novel Adaptations

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Paul Auster, Comics, Robert Crumb, The Book of Genesis, Graphic Novel, Fahrenheit 451, Slidepollajax, Skottie Young, Graphic Novels, Allen Ginsberg, Adaptations, Kite Runner, Seymour Chwast, Books News

Books are turned into movies all the time, but increasingly, they are also getting the graphic novel treatment.

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Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Oscar, Duke, Alan Ginsberg, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Day After Superman Died, David Kahne, Tie Dye, Angelina Jolie, Alex Gibney, The World's Fair, Cold War, Easy Rider, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Twist and Shout, Ravi Coltrane, On the Road, The Beatles, Archival Verite, Emmy, Stanley Tucci, John Coltrane, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Wolfe, Love Potion Number 9, Howl, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Jerry Garcia, JFK Assassination, Jack Kerouac, Allison Ellwood, The Merry Pranksters, Hair, Greensleeves, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, The Sixties, Ellington, Neal Cassady, Post 9/11, Entertainment News

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

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Heroes and Anti-Heroes

Jerry Cimino | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, World War II, WWII Veterans, The Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, 1950s, Culture News

Why was I drawn to this group of nonconformists who never set out to change the world but who did so anyway because they followed their own individual passions?

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Paris on the Pacific: My New Love Affair

Zachary Ehren | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Orange County, Dolores Park, Bart, Travel, The Mission, Europe, San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco News

This was the first time since my travels in Europe that I would stop and stare at the buildings and houses on every corner. Was I still in the United States?

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Ai Weiwei Early Photographs Shown In NY

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Photography, Government, Nyc, East Village, Asia Society, Chinese Government, Ai Weiwei Early Photographs, Tompkins Square Park, Ai Weiwei, Allen Ginsberg, China, New York, Robert Frank, Detainee, Arts News

NEW YORK — An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Ai Weiwei chronicles New York City in the 1980s and early `90s when the recently detain...

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James Franco Brings Another Poet to the Big Screen

John Lundberg | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: William Faulkner, Howl, Film Festival, Blood Meridian, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Books News

If you're familiar with Hart Crane's work, he might strike you as an odd choice for a biopic, as he's a notoriously difficult poet. And Franco is well aware of this.

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New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Timothy Leary, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The 60s, Richard Nixon, Jack Kerouac, New York Public Library, Beat Poetry, Timothy Leary Papers, Hallucinogens, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, Books News

When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...

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Naropa To Leave Boulder?

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Alternative University, Denver News, The Beats, Naropa, Jack Kerouac, Boulder Naropa, Alternative Schools, Beats, Naropa in Boulder, Naropa University, Allen Ginsberg, Denver News

Naropa University, the Buddhist-inspired school of contemplative education, is looking for a new home -- possibly outside of Boulder. In a breakfas...

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A Brief History Of The Word 'Sh*t-Faced'

Slate Magazine | Paul Collins | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Sh*T-Faced, Oed, Etymology, University of Texas at Arlington, Allen Ginsberg, Oxford English Dictionary, Chaucer, Books News

Some years ago, Slate contributor Paul Collins became curious about the history of the word bonkers. After a letter to the editors of the Oxford Engli...

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Literary Classic Headed To Film

Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Big Sur Movie, Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac Big Sur Movie, Big Sur, Books, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Big Sur, Movies, Entertainment News

Fifty-plus years later, the Beat Generation is finally making its mark in film. A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the fame...

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