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Read more...Jean Varda: The Renaissance Man
The First SF Museum Show in 70 Years
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Read more...Cynthia Clark – Gregory Corso’s “Swan Girl”
The Beat Museum is thrilled to present this collaboration with Kurt Hemmer, featuring original letters, illustrations, and other material from the Beat Museum archives—items never before available for public view—until now.
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Read more...Saying Farewell to Neeli Cherkovski
On the afternoon of May 20th, folks from North Beach and beyond came out to pay respects to our friend Neeli Cherkovski, who departed the world on March 19th, 2024. The gathering began at Washington Square Park, and proceeded with a second line procession down Grant Avenue to Caffe Trieste, the Beat Museum, and finally […]
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Read more...Farewell Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski, poet, biographer, friend and fellow traveler to many Beat and Beat-adjacent poets, writers, and artists, died March 19th. He was 78.
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Read more...Vanishing Point Forever
The new book by Robert M. Rubin is a richly colorful tribute to the 1971 cult classic film, and a love letter to a moment in time.
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Read more...At the Intersection of Science and Poetry: Francis Crick on Michael McClure
After Michael McClure's original "Peyote Poem."
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Read more...Running into Carl Nolte at the Antiquarian Book Fair
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. The day I met Carl Nolte was one of those days. After coming off a very successful two year nationwide tour in The Beat Museum on Wheels in 2004 and 2005, we decided to move The Beat Museum from Monterey, CA to North Beach in San Francisco. […]
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Read more...The Obscenity Trial Over Ron Boise’s Kama Sutra Sculptures
the case of Ron Boise, whose sculptures evidently caused such dismay among certain uptight individuals that the police raided the Vorpal Gallery (located in what is now Kerouac Alley) where they were being shown, confiscated the pieces, and placed the gallery’s owner, artist Muldoon Elder, under arrest on charges of offering “lewd objects for sale.”
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Read more...The Beat Museum, and That Time I Tried to Save Our Corner Candy Store
by Jerry Cimino “I’ve been begging for money my entire life. Is that Beat, or what?” Last week I found a photograph I haven’t seen in my entire adult life. I was going through a large box of family photographs I shipped from my mom and dad’s house seven years ago, after they both passed […]
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Read more...Up Close and Personal with the Collection of Richard Prince
by Jerry Cimino Sometimes life leads you to exactly the place you want to be, seeing things you’ve always wanted to see. A few months ago I experienced just such a moment when I made a trip to New York to peruse the greatest collection of Beat Generation and counterculture memorabilia in the world. I […]
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Read more...Banned Books Week: The Bonfire of Wilhelm Reich
In celebration of Banned Books Week, we’re excited to announce that the Beat Museum has recently acquired some 1950s publications from Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Institute Press, related to one of the most egregious cases of censorship in US history.
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