The Velvet Underground

#116: Gerard Malanga And Ingrid Superstar – Gossip

Crowdfunding without the internet – in New York, this was done in 1966 with a record. The proceeds went to the newly founded counterculture magazine ‘The East Village Other’. A who's who of pop culture gathered for the recording on 6 August. The date not only marked the 21st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

New York in the Sixties – A Hotbed for Experiments

Whether conceptual or performance art, electronic music, counterculture, minimalism, drone sounds or Fluxus – New York City is a hotbed for all sorts of experiments during the Sixties. 54 minutes with Angus MacLise, Henry Flynt, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Richard Maxfield and others.