Tag: 1960s
“I don’t really like it, but misery likes company,” is the general sentiment expressed by the subjects of a short documentary from the 1960’s titled How Do You Like The Bowery? The black and white video shows a seamy landscape of flophouses and bleak streets, on which the interviewees spend their time. Some tell tragic stories about […]
“Not Nothing,” a new book on artist Ray Johnson — friend to Andy Warhol, John Cage and others — expands the context for his under-appreciated work. Johnson was a man of many mediums — collage, performance art and “mail art.” (Image Courtesy Siglio Press) Johnson had started the New York Correspondance School and held meetings for fellow mail artists, whose interactive […]
While researching for her new book about the Young Lords — a radical Puerto Rican 1960’s group that turned militant — Baruch College Professor Johanna Fernandez was surprised to find that the NYPD did not have the records of the group’s surveillance. Fernandez found them all on her own. After discovering many of these documents proving […]
