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 ...

All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Out with reason and control, in with instincts and impulses.

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 ...

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.

The pioneering work of avant-garde artist and William Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin will receive a definitive vinyl edition this spring, as the cult Dreamachine recordings is issued for the first ...

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 ...

Or at least not with their eyes open. Called Dreamachine, this immersive art piece is a carefully orchestrated light show intended to be experienced with closed eyes. Through flickering and pulsing ...

Inspired by a device created by in the 1950s, the creators hope to bring free transcendental experiences to 100,000 Britons – and unite the country through communal hallucinations One day in 1958, ...

“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 ...

Brion Gysin was a British artist born in 1916 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. He was known for his work in painting, drawing, sound poetry, and performance art, and was associated with the ...

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 ...