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 ...

After his death from AIDS-related causes in 1989, Smith’s work was preserved by artists Penny Arcade and J Hoberman but generated little excitement within the art world. In recent years ...

This was rather less than the truth, since Smith had made good in London, after St Martin's and the Royal College. It is not given to every painter to have an art movement named after one of his ...