By: Tom Nealon

His brilliance is perpetually muffled.

By: William Nericcio

He deconstructed Mexico and “Mexico” for a world audience.

By: Alix Lambert

Visionary inventor infamous for her on-screen nudity.

By: Adam McGovern

He’s heir to the old weird America.

By: Tom Nealon

A giant fat guy back when there was still honor in it.

By: Peggy Nelson

She was the green flash on the horizon of the Radium Age.

By: Brian Berger

“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings.”

By: David Smay

She radiated menace, steel and megawatt charisma.

By: Brian Berger

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was attacked by a sand-kicking beach bully…

By: Jerrold Freitag

Schiele’s shameful bent hand, Miró’s weird blue

By: Brian Berger

“Showed a good bary and commercial routine that hypoed his Oriental appearance.”

By: Alix Lambert

Original pacing, gliding vowels, and a visceral commitment to the material.

By: David Smay

“I will never be/finished removing/all these faces.”

By: Lynn Peril

“A living embodiment of almost pure ‘pop’ sensation.”