Bob Branaman (1933-2024)
City Lights, San Francisco, 1963 – from left-to-right, Philip Whalen, Bob Branaman, Gary Goodall, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Russo, Charles Plymell – photo by Anne Buchanan
Robert Branaman and Marc Olmsted
Another great Beat artist passes on.
Marc Olmsted remembers the remarkable Robert Branaman:
Said artist[…]
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Andre Breton (1896-1966)
Today, February 19, marks the anniversary of the death of “the Pope of Surrealism” Andre Breton
For more on Breton and Surrealism on The Allen Ginsberg Project – see here – and also here, here, here, here and here
Back in September of 1988, it was “Surrealist Week” at[…]
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Jack Kerouac portrait,1943 –Edie Parker Kerouac, oil on canvas board
16 x 12 ins -Collection of Joe Lee
Beat Art Work – The Power of the Gaze – Outsider Art next week in New York’s Outsider Art Fair curated by Anne Waldman. More on that in the coming days.
Youth (Martin[…]
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“Sura” (Portrait of Hope Savage by Robert LaVigne, 1958
Coming up this week, this Thursday, in New York, Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze
Anne Waldman, the curator, writes:
“Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze is an archival worthy exhibit, featuring portraits that engage in a magnetizing play of binaries:[…]
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Jack Kerouac, 1960 – photo by Mario Jorrin – courtesy the collection of Sylvia Cunha and The Jack Kerouac Estate
Jack Kerouac’s Birthday today. Born March 12, 1922, that would make him 102! – Jack, you’re eternal![…]
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We feature today transcription of a lecture given by Allen at the Naropa Institute, July 13th, 1982 on “Dharma Poetics”. This was the seventh in a series of several talks presented by various speakers on “Dharma Arts”. Gratitude (as ever) to Randy Roark for his original work on preparing the transcription.
AG: […]
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Heads-up on a show opening tomorrow at the Oxmarket Contemporary Art Gallery in Chichester, England – “Burn burn, burn, The Beats Light up the Ox” -an exhibition, curated by University of Chichester professors Dick Ellis and Hugo Frey, “exploring how Beat writers, (Jack) Kerouac, (Allen) Ginsberg, (William) Burroughs and (Gregory) Corso,[…]
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Buddhism and the Beats – the on-going history of Buddhist transmission in the West
– the particularities of not just Buddhism but an American Buddhism. It is impossible to underestimate or understate the profound connection, instigating connection, Beat culture presents – How The Swans Came To The Lake – Zen Buddhism, Tibetan[…]
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James Shirley (1596- 1666)
Allen Ginsberg on Dharma Poetics continues from here
Student: (You’ve been concentrating here (mostly) on older poets)
AG: Yeah.
Student: (Can we (perhaps) look at more modern authors?)
AG: Pardon me?
Student: (Can we look at more modern authors?)
AG: I can’t hear the (question).
Student: (Can we[…]
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Allen Ginsberg on Dharma Poetics continues from here
AG: A second aspect of appreciation, beside mortality, which Shakespeare’s sonnet leads into is appreciation of the sacred world, which is part of that path and recognition of joy. Because of the precision of the poet in recognizing the world, because the precision of[…]
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