A single year 1964 concentrated obscenity busts, censorship, and avant-garde breakthroughs in New York

Evidence

Flaming Creatures and Lenny Bruce are busted. The World’s Fair censors Andy Warhol (who goes on to make the world’s first conceptual porn film). The Living Theatre goes on trial. Harlem riots. Fluxus pickets Karlheinz Stockhausen. Bill Dixon declares the “October Revolution in Jazz.” Michael Snow discovers Albert Ayler and LeRoi Jones is crowned “King of the East Village.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 497

Categorization

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