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Ways of Listening: Arthur Russell at BAM

While Arthur Russell managed to release only several proper albums before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1992 at age forty, an ongoing effort to collect and release material from his gen…

• By
  Thea Ballard
• Mar 21, 2017 11:36 am

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Everything Is About To Begin

Visiting the US in 1966 and 1969, Italy’s controversial postwar Renaissance man, Pier Paolo Pasolini, found a rejuvenating energy in his encounters with fellow filmmakers, artists, writers, and activi…

• By
  Ara H. Merjian
• Dec 1, 2016 9:00 am

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Alfred Leslie: An Interview

An artist of wide acquaintance and prodigious range—his mediums include painting, film, photography, theater and prose—refelcts on his epic career.

• By
  Judith Stein
• Aug 5, 2016 3:53 pm

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The Beat Spirit of Film: A Robert Frank Retrospective

Robert Frank's film work will be shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning August 4. A comprehensive series like this one has the potential to shift art-historical narratives. By providing acce…

• By
  Craig Hubert
• Aug 4, 2016 12:55 pm

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Precarious Immortality: William S. Burroughs on Film

Few humans maintained a courtship with death as intimate and prolonged as that of William S. Burroughs. Despite a decades-long addiction to heroin, numerous run-ins with the law, and an unabashed…

• By
  Andrew Marzoni
• Dec 8, 2015 9:30 am