By: Tucker Cummings

The UK’s first action heroine.

By: Brian Berger

“It’s worthwhile knowing that Homer could nod.”

By: Jessica Bruder

Fashion plate, poet, proto-punk and feminist performance artist.

By: Brian Berger

The high-life of the composer of “Molly On The Shore.”

By: Adam McGovern

Her art reflected feelings that no one could speak.

By: Suzanne Fischer

He empowered people to choose to be fooled, for a fee.

By: Lucy Sante

“Surrealism is the order of the day, and Desnos is its prophet”

By: Chris Spurgeon

The most ingenious American of all time.

By: Brian Berger

Her energy, wit and lithe sexuality made her a star.

By: Gary Panter

He is still ahead of the glitter rock curve and pulling away.

By: Brian Berger

He was fluent in all jazz and classical idioms.

By: Alix Lambert

He wasn’t crushed by exhaustion, frost, hunger, and endless humiliations.

By: Alix Lambert

“It’s not necessarily a happy world. We need to talk about this stuff.”

By: Barbara Bogaev

Her audacity and un­willing­ness to please remain shocking.

By: Devin McKinney

For him jazz was never simply music, it was life.