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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in a two-room shack-like apartment at 73 Orr Street in the working class neighborhood of Soho in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Andrej Warhola and...

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Andre Kertesz: About Andre Kertesz

Known for his extended study of Washington Square Park and his distorted nudes of the 1930s, Andre Kertesz was a quiet but important influence on the coming of age of photojournalism and the art of...

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Allen Ginsberg: About Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for...

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Alexander Calder: About the Artist

In short, although Calder has no desire to imitate anything—his one aim is to create chords and cadences of unknown movements—his mobiles are at once lyrical inventions, technical, almost mathematical...

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Albert Einstein: How I See the World

Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. His theories on the nature of time and space profoundly affected the human conception of the physical world and set...

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Ahmet Ertegun: Atlantic Records

Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006) The Greatest Record Man Of All Time by Robert Greenfield “I think it’s better to burn out than to fade away… it’s better to live out your days being very, very active — even...

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Aaron Copland: About the Composer

Aaron Copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular forms of American music such as jazz and folk into his compositions, he...

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