A new exhibition at Fahey/Klein Gallery asks us to consider the iconic Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a new light — several new lights, actually. Beloved for his evocative, sparsely opulent, raw and ...

A new show at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles will see Allen Ginsberg in dialogue with two distinct technologies: one of photography, which the late poet engaged with throughout the decades, and ...

Singer-songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull reported that "Allen Ginsberg tried teaching me how to give a blow job; he said it was like prayer." The incident took place between 1988-89 at the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. dominating the whole room. Could Ginsberg have known, at that tender age, that he would spend much of his adult ...

Hank O’Neal, The Gay Day Archive (1974-83) (all images courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) When the 1969 Stonewall Riots erupted in the Greenwich Village, Allen Ginsberg was elsewhere. But the legendary ...

Allen Ginsberg‘s 1989 album The Lion for Real — which features some of the poet’s works set to music, and was produced by Hal Willner, featuring performances by Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg, known as a leading voice of the Beat Generation, didn’t just write. Throughout his life, he also practiced photography, once saying that “the poignancy of a photograph comes from ...

Kavanagh Weekend 2026 will explore the Irish poet’s US adventures and his affinity with Allen Ginsberg and the outsider ...

World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller, David S. Wills’s biography of Allen Ginsberg, explores the poet’s life as a traveler. By excerpting Ginsberg’s poems and quoting his letters and travel ...

First, customs officials seized a crate full of the contraband at the San Francisco port. But that didn’t solve the problem. Some of the banned product had already gotten through and was being ...

She made the landmark underground film “Christmas on Earth,” and helped bring together artists like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. By J. Hoberman Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a ...