By: Franklin Bruno

“The most famous unknown artist in New York.”

By: Franklin Bruno

Works of art to be completed by the audience…

By: Franklin Bruno

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

By: Franklin Bruno

“We ought to go into rehab, but we’re too stoned to care.”

By: Franklin Bruno

High modernist experi­ments ex­ecuted at pulp­smith rates.

By: Franklin Bruno

A practical­minded brand of utopian modernism…

By: Franklin Bruno

A brilliant, principled actress typecast as a ditz or naïf.

By: Franklin Bruno

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

By: Franklin Bruno

Andre Bazin wrote “he directs facts” — but did he?

By: Franklin Bruno

“I decided to face reality by writing lyrics.”

By: Franklin Bruno

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.

By: Franklin Bruno

His bulk and blokeishness made him the perfect frontman for Madness.

By: Franklin Bruno

His pursuit of formal balance hardly numbed him to racial concerns.

By: Franklin Bruno

For Beckett, joking — like farting — is a futile but necessary stay against death and time.

By: Franklin Bruno

His stylistic mastery renders all encomia to his “voice” ridiculous.