Patti Smith paints a mesmerising picture of her relationship to Robert Mapplethorpe, a coming-of-age story and an ode to a ...

Patti Smith paints a mesmerising picture of her relationship to Robert Mapplethorpe, a coming-of-age story and an ode to a bygone New York City ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs ... and medical school in Vienna. Among his peers were Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He received major accolades such as the American ...

A new exhibition series rejects the question of whether or not we should be doing drugs, and instead tries to understand why, and how, we always have.

One of my favourite cartoons is of the owl and the pussycat going to sea in their pea-green boat. The caption is the owl’s ...

The 1950s saw the arrival of the Beatnik generation with writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac alongside the rise of the American Civil Rights movement and of blues music.

In the mid forties and fifties, Paul Bowles, Peter Orlovesky, Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs stayed in the Northern city, writing, translating and enjoying what Tangier ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.

Here are some key facts. William Seward Burroughs II, widely known as William S. Burroughs, moved to New York City in 1943 where he befriended Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and began a wild journey ...