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Dennis Hopper
If memory serves, when Easy Rider was released, in 1969, it was both terrifying and bewildering. Now it’s easier to see why. The movie Dennis Hopper directed, starred in and co-wrote was both randomly...
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That’s All, Foulkes
In the annals of “I am what I am,” Llyn Foulkes ranks as Exhibit A—that is, he can’t help being an eccentric, self-defeating Los Angeles artist, a poet, a singer, and a one-man band in command of...
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Grapes of Wrath: How a California Road Trip Made an Artist Out of Andy Warhol
In 1963, Andy Warhol drove from New York to Los Angeles with his friends Wynn Chamberlain, Gerard Melanga, and Taylor Mead. Deborah Davis’s new book, The Trip (Simon & Schuster), an examination of...
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When SoHo Met Hollywood: Revisiting ’90s Films by ’80s Art Stars
(From left) Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman, and Dennis Hopper starring in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film, Basquiat. COURTESY MIRAMAX David Salle begins his Artforum review of The Diving Bell and...
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Nazis, Con Men, Forgers, and Thieves: Art Crime in Postwar Cinema
Film still of Sterling Hayden in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, 1956. COURTESY THE CRITERION COLLECTION On August 21, 1961, Francisco Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812–14) was stolen from...
View Article“Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins”
“Another Kind of Life” featured photographs of people living “on the margins,” as its subtitle would have it: teenagers shooting up in Tulsa, depicted by Larry Clark (1963); members of the Chicago...
View ArticleSongs of Innocence and Experience: Rock Movies at Anthology Film Archives
“I wanna tell you about ooh poo pah doo,” the New Orleans singer Jessie Hill shouts a cappella near the start of his 1960 single by the same name, and almost before you can ask if what you’ve just...
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