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 ...

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 ...

“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.

“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.

Many believe it was Alice B. Toklas who invented the weed brownie. Flashback to 1950s Paris. Alice B, Toklas, writer and partner to fellow famous writer Gertrude Stein, published her notorious ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...