The late-twentieth century experimental artist Brion Gysin was a changeling. Throughout his career, he engaged in a project of blotting out his race, his nationality and — in what many see as his best ...

“IF you want to disappear ... come around for private lessons,” the artist Brion Gysin once offered in a prose poem. And during a period in Paris in the late 1950s, when he and the novelist William S.

The New Museum’s “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” is intended as New York’s reintroduction to this painter, poet, innovator, and total subversive, and that it will be. Gysin was the artist’s artist among ...

“Brion Gysin was a subversive,” we are told in a wall text just off the elevator at this New Museum retrospective. Gay and itinerant, he had “no family, no clique, no fixed profession and, often, no ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The writings of American writer William S. Burroughs and British writer Brion Gysin measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1963 to 1973, and 1997.

At the end of 1980, the late Steve Lacy expanded his group to a sextet with the addition of pianist Bobby Few. His first recording with this new configuration was Songs, a 1981 collaboration with poet ...

9.1 x 11.8 x 1.4 in. (23.11 x 29.97 x 3.56 cm.) Signed; in pencil by Keith Haring, stamped with the posthumous signature of Brion Gysin and numbered in pencil on the colophon This red cloth, ...

An ambitious immersive artwork designed “to be experienced with your eyes closed” will begin touring around the U.K. in May as part of the rebrand of a pricey initiative originally planned to ...

October Gallery is a registered charity supported by grants, donations and rental of the gallery’s facilities, as well as sales of art. A new exhibition at the Grolier Club examines the verbal and ...

IN 1962, AT THE GALLERIA Trastevere di Topazia Alitata in Rome, Brion Gysin covered a wall with paintings and filled the space with manipulated, tape-recorded sound poetry. Neither paintings nor ...

Brion Gysin was the “artist’s artist among the Beats,” New York magazine says, but relatively unknown outside the art world. The New Museum’s “Bryon Gysin: Dream Machine” exhibit is meant to remedy ...