By: Franklin Bruno

Works of art to be completed by the audience…

By: Brian Berger

She knew her idiom, and never half-assed it.

By: Brian Berger

He was a greater writer than assassin.

By: Alix Lambert

“You need first of all, a bad camera!”

By: Adam McGovern

He is the poet of what you think you might have heard.

By: Franklin Bruno

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

By: Lucy Sante

In American humor, she discerned “a deep-lying mood of dis­severance.”

By: Greg Rowland

Psychedelic spy shenanigans, laced with Dali, Welles, Kirby and Eisner.

By: Adam McGovern

He has become the portraitist of humanity.

By: Franklin Bruno

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

By: Greg Rowland

His name did not optimize his brand equities.

By: Brian Berger

Superior technique and intellect plus searing emotionalism.

By: Lucy Sante

He was a model for the “gentleman cambrioleur” Arsène Lupin.

By: Alix Lambert

An artist of the gesture and the “spectac­ular instant.”

By: Tor Aarestad

He takes onto himself all of our evil urges and failings.