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Art in Chinatown north – the Good, the Bad and the Slippery

Vox Populi’s Dead Flowers—guest curated by Lia Gangitano of PARTICIPANT INC, New York—invites us to consider the spirit of the underground through little known director Timothy Carey. A vintage poster for The World’s Greatest Sinner! at the entrance of the exhibition proudly announces Carey’s film as—and suggests that any other work in the show should aspire to be—the “Most condemned and praised […] of its time.”

First Friday roundup of a few good shows

Here’s my pick for First Friday.  See more picks at the Weekly here. “Dead Flowers” Sixties underground film icon Tim Carey rocketed to fame with his ability to portray crazy. His brief moments on screen opposite Marlon Brando in The Wild One and James Dean in East of Eden made him a legendary Hollywood ham. Generally, though, the actor and director spurned mainstream movies for work in the film underground where he wrote, directed and starred in the cult classic The World’s Greatest Sinner, a movie in which a man with a God complex gets his comeuppance.