Author Description

Since his first exhibition at the legendary original Athena restaurant, on 31st Street, created in the early 1960s by then-married restaurateurs Yannis and Susie Vantzos (A real hot spot as a restaurant, it later became a punk-goth nightclub. It’s now a parking lot) as a twenty-year-old art student in fall of 1969, LG Williams has exhibited internationally and documented what needed to be documented. “Whenever I came up with something, I kept it somewhere,” LG Williams writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from two years (2003-05) of hacking away at this for all I was worth.” For this book, LG Williams has selected his favorite material, organized month by month. In this “trove of laugh-out-loud artworks” (Associated Press), you will witness the evolution of one of the great artists of our time and gain new insights into the exciting but unforgiving art of another unknown, deplorable, and out-of-range artists. "Another clandestine attack at art's power-base." ― The New Yorker “A pure pleasure to read.” ―New York Times "A marvelous book." ―Artforum “It almost looks like a book of poetry…It made me realize art is a precision instrument, every image is a beat.”—The New Yorker