Jonas Mekas OUTLAW: New Works at MICROSCOPE GALLERY
2,146 views · Published 16 July 2013 · 6:42 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: jameskalmroughcut · 2013 · Entertainment
The artist Jonas Mekas has been a fixture on the New York art scene for over sixty years, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, and FLUXUS founder, George Maciunas, This program features works made in response to an ongoing law suit against an unscrupulous art dealer who has been retaining and selling Mekas' works while refusing to pay the artist his share. In the five years this struggle has endured, the artist has received scores of profain e-mails from the "Gallerist". Texts from these e-mails have gone into the series of Xerox collages titled "Outlaw: Letters from the gallerist to the artist". If one of the highest forms of creativity is the ability to make art from diversity, then Mekas shows why, for over half a century, he's been considered a master.
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