The Dream Life

J. Hoberman’s excellent survey of the cinematic and political scenes of the ’60s, The Dream Life, doesn’t have much to do with underground film, but I’m writing it up for Bad...

Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 (Third Edition)

Last spring and summer I got on a kick reading classic film books on the history of underground film. My little mini series of posts include write-ups on Midnight Movies by J. Hoberman and Jonathan...

On the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center

You know you’re famous when your face appears on the side of a bus. That’s what happened to the legendary film diarist Jonas Mekas when the Visual Arts Center that bears his name opened...

A 1981 Andy Warhol portrait of felon-baron ... [The Art Of The Stall]

A 1981 Andy Warhol portrait of felon-baron Conrad Black sold for $240,000 yesterday. The Los Angeles art dealer who bought it, however, had no idea who Black was when he started bidding. Ouch. Though...

Alpha Kitty Unveiled: Atoosa: "The Next Big Style Icon Is Going To Be A Drag Queen"

newVideoPlayer("Alpha_Kitty.flv", 475, 376);Former Seventeen editor Atoosa Rubenstein "said she is not thinking about business, only 'play,'" with her new web venture, a series of videos that debut...