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A fast-paced ride -- Christies, Best Art Books 2025 Nobody in America writes as well about culture and film as J. Hoberman -- Peter Biskind, author of <i>Down and Dirty Pictures</i> and <i>Pandora’s Box</i> The dish, plus the mentions of virtually every downtown address where people lived and worked, gives a vivid sense of the '60s avant-garde as a physically and personally close-knit group and the art they created as a collective enterprise. Minutely detailed descriptions of movies, plays, concerts, and ""happenings,"" from underground classics (the Living Theatre's Paradise Now) to the truly obscure (Barbara Rubin's multimedia event, Caterpillar Changes), also make palpable the period's anything-goes ethos. * Kirkus Reviews * A striking countercultural history of New York City. [Everything is Now] is a thrilling conjuration of a head-spinningly innovative time and place. * Publishers Weekly, starred review * Everything Is Now is a propulsive account of New York's counterculture in the 1960s. It's all documented by legendary cultural critic J. Hoberman, whose authoritative and evocative writing welcomes readers into the city's exclusive art-world circles as guests rather than outside observers. It makes for a compelling, dishy read that's also deeply researched. * A.V. Club * Back in the 1960s, New York City was a haven for the avant-garde, whether it was in the shape of subcultural movements like fluxus and guerrilla theater or venues like coffeehouses, bars, and lofts. Hoberman's cultural history is a thorough account of the New York underground, complete with rich, minute details about what the city once was. * The Millions *

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J. Hoberman was for over three decades a film and culture critic for The Village Voice. His previous books have explored the subculture of midnight movies, the rise and fall of Yiddish-language cinema, the international Communist avantgarde, SoHo performance art, and the underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His “found illusions” trilogy—which includes The Dream Life, Make My Day, and An Army of Phantoms—used Hollywood to refract the history of the Cold War.

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