Several more images from the upcoming show of Jack Kerouac’s art at the Maga Museum in Gallarante, Italy, have been made available – here – on the Ansa web-site.
Jack Kerouac. Beat Painting’, curated by Sandrina Bandera, Alessandro Castiglioni and Emma Zanella, is set to open December 3rd, and also includes photographs by Robert Frank and Ettore Sottsass, a project by Peter Greenaway and the video of the classic 1966 tv interview with translator Fernanda Pivano.
Did we mention? (yes, we did, it was his birthday yesterday) a new book, a biography, on the legendary Robert Frank has just come out, American Witness – The Art and Life of Robert Frank.
Here’s Jonah Raskin’s review in the New York Journal of Books –
Here‘s Alex Belth’s review in Esquire
Here‘s another positive note from Kirkus Review
Here (cinematography by Frank) is the eternally-wonderful Pull My Daisy:
& our good friend Pat Thomas (editor/curator of both The Last Word on First Blues and The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience (Allen’s tuning of Blake)) has a new book out (we’ve also briefly mentioned it before) – Did It! – From Yippie to Yuppie – An American Revolutionary!, Read more about that here, in Andrew Gilbert’s illuminating piece on Berkleyside