When he was arrested for screening Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures” in New York City ... can take the teeth out of certain kinds of art that have something to do with protest.

The interchangeably heavenly and infernal beings who constitute the title characters of performance artist Jack Smith’s 1962 Flaming Creatures include sheiks, concubines, satyrs and possible ...

A retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York features ... and a kind of calm certainty on Jack Smith’s part,” Siegel says. Smith shot “Flaming Creatures” on the roof of the ...

Who was Jack Smith ... you really want to comprehend Smith, who succumbed to AIDS in 1989, there's no better place to start than his 1963 cri de coeur "Flaming Creatures," which predated and ...

Credited with essentially jump-starting American avant-garde cinema, Jack Smith is not ... obsessiveness, Flaming Creatures looks and feels like that genre of underground art preferred by a ...

ALTHOUGH his DIY flicks influenced Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini, John Waters and countless music-video directors, among others, the legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith (1932-1989 ...

When Jack Smith moved from Ohio to New York in the '50s, he opened a portrait-photography studio, and between paying jobs, he brought friends, customers, and curious degenerates into his back room ...

Jack Smith was a multimedia artist before the terms became common. He shot photographs, made films, sculptures, collages and costumes. He was popular among artists; Andy Warhol called him a major ...