A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...

"I like the strong personal visionary stuff that generally doesn't fit in the mainstream," the artist Robert Crumb once wrote in a letter to the cartoonist B. N. Duncan. Dan Nadel quotes that letter ...

A movie still from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey' starring Gary Lockwood. The 1960s were a decade of change in America and around the world. Minority rights were ...

We’ve been swimming in the 1960s for decades, replaying the era like a classic-rock album. The artistic movements that came out of that time remain as fixed as the stars: Pop, minimalism, ...

Students learn about Bob Dylan’s transformation from folk hero to blues rocker through excerpts from the Bob Dylan Guitar investigation. They then compare and contrast reactions to Bob Dylan’s playing ...

That combination made it possible for me to make an unprofessional debut at the paper. It made it easy for an unknown caller like me to get founding editor Dan Wolf on the phone. I’d never written ...

One of the chief pleasures of James Mangold’s acclaimed new Bob Dylan film biography “A Complete Unknown” comes from the assistance it provides to old-timers often trying, usually failing, to explain ...

Twenty reclining female nudes sprawl across three monumental canvases, painted in an array of unusual fleshy hues such as deep blue, teal, moss green, and mauve pink. The intermingling of platonic and ...

The biggest treat comes right at the beginning of “Sixties Surreal,” just now opening at the Whitney. You emerge from the elevator, and right there are the camels. These are full-sized sculptures by ...