1960s
All This Will Happen, More or Less: A Kurt Vonnegut Opera Debuts in Indiana This Month
Here's a little-known fact: the 'Cat’s Cradle' and 'Slaughterhouse Five' author wrote an opera in the weeks leading up to his death. Now, 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June' makes its long-awaited debut.
The Real ‘Mad Men’ of the 60s Come to Life in a Short Documentary
“The copywriting was very ordinary, straightforward, offhand; it spoke like a New Yorker at the racetrack.”
Pop Art Dream Worlds Emerge in Vibrant Collages
Montreal artist Pierre-Paul Pariseau finds the fusion point between elements of surrealism and Pop art imagery.
The Secrets Inside 1960s Editions of the US Government's Private Drugs Newsletter
Trip reports from government researchers, confusion about how LSD gets made, and much more.
Remembering the Time America Nuked Spain by Accident
Photographer and historian John Howard went to Palomares to photograph the nuclear disaster you've never heard of.
How Primal Scream Therapy Has Survived Five Decades of Strangeness and Controversy
Arthur Janov's primal therapy became a cultural phenomenon in the 60s and 70s, but today most experts say that the technique is unhelpful and can even be harmful to some patients. So how has it endured?
What We Can Learn from the Middle East's Mid-Century 'Golden Age'
Many of my family and friends look back on the region's cultural glory days of the 50s and 60s with longing—but that era also contained the seeds of terror, war, and sectarianism.
Why Are We so Obsessed with Making the Kray Twins Legends?
The murderous brothers have almost achieved national treasure status in the UK.
'Twenty Years Ahead of the World': Talking to Legendary Performance Artist Penny Arcade
We talked to the one-woman show about five decades of performing, her oral history project Lower East Side Biographies and the need to offer young people a queer, punk-rock, alternative to the mainstream.
Rose McGowan Takes on the Male Gaze and Teenage Killers in her Directorial Debut 'Dawn'
The short film is a cross between a candy-coated world and the world of terror.
Vincent Bugliosi, the Beast of a Prosecutor Who Took Down Charles Manson, Is Dead
The man who put one of the most notorious figures of the 20th century behind bars passed away this weekend at the age of 80.