7 fabulous minutes of Warhol superstar, artist and poet Taylor Mead remembering Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn hanging out at Max’s Kansas City and getting beat up just because he was gay in the late 1960s – filmed in 2003 for my doc “Superstar in a Housedress”. Check out my DVD releases here: highbergermedia.com
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This Is A Flash Back To The Swinging 60’s Big Hair. This Is Where The Term Hair Hopper Comes From. The Hair Was So Big It Was Insane…Yeah Baby!
“Age of Anxiety” (Episode Eight) Richard Diebenkorn’s abstracts, including the Ocean Park Paintings, are discussed. The work of Philip Guston (June 27, 1913 June 7, 1980) is explored, and his daughter, Musa Mayer, is inteviewed. Video clips of Guston are shown. The conflicts of 1960s and 70s are transformed by the Reagan rhetoric, and the arts boomed. Julian Schnabel, a “monument of self-esteem.” Jeff Koons “a vulgarity so syrupy, gross and numbing, that collectors felt challenged by it.” go here to playlist of all episodes of “American Visions”: www.youtube.com
The sights and sounds blasting back from the past decades of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Using art generated in Photoshop as the animations and snippits of music from the appropriate decades.
The sex & drugs & rock ‘n roll life (and death) of London art dealer Robert Fraser who championed Andy Warhol’s work in the UK in the 1960s and was the subject, along with Mick Jagger, of Richard Hamilton’s painting Swingeing London. Warhol screened The Chelsea Girls at Fraser’s London flat in 1967. With Jim Dine, Kenneth Anger, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull. Clips from Art and the 60s – Groovy Galleries.