The Art of Jack Smith During his life, New York's Jack Smith was popular among artists, but never a financial success. He died broke, and his friends say the saved his work from the dump.

That Time That Jack Smith Proposed That Artists Should Throw Themselves Down Stairs Over four consecutive evenings in April 1974, curator and Art-Rite co-editor Edit deAk staged a program at ...

On the recent Friday the 13th, Jack Smith’s disembodied voice rattled through Anthology Film Archives.Lamenting the state of the art market in 1974 in his characteristic falsetto, he lambasted a ...