Amos Vogel is the founder of the New York Film Festival and New York's experimental cinema club "Cinema 16" where films by John Cassavetes, Bruce Connor, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger and Roman Polanski were shown in New York for the first time. His classic book, "Film as a Subversive Art" is filled

Experimental, New york underground, Pioneering, Rebel, Urban

RoseLee Goldberg, art historian, critic, curator and author whose book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (London University), she was director of the Royal College of Art Gallery i

Experimental, Experimental theater, Intense, Joyful, Quirky, Sexy, Sincere, Smart, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Urban

Although she never identifies it in the titles of her paintings, Nina Murdoch constantly returns to a mysterious, shadowy place in Battersea. Here, gazing at a road dominated by heavy bridges and the insistent din of unseen London traffic, she finds herself mesmerised. Street kids who hang out in thi

Dense, Industrial, Intense, Urban

Just a guy with a blog (or five) and a love of film, liquids and words. Like WSB, I eat images. Like everybody else, I keep getting older; I just happen to write about it, from a particular angle, on the internet where everybody can see. Sometimes people pay me to write things. I also make little mov

Architectural, Event, Excessive, Flux, Hermeneutics, Joyful, Layered, Lyrical, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Repetition, Science fiction, Sensual, Slangy, Sprawling, Urban