Glenn O’Brien, via NYT
Glenn O’Brien, writer, editor, creative director and founder of the famed downtown public-access television show TV Party, has passed away at the age of 70. (more…)
The New York Times profiles editor, curator, writer and downtown mainstay Glenn O’Brien, as he takes up his new position as top editor for Maxim, charting out his vision for the magazine, and his memories of New York during the 1970’s and 80’s, including time spent with Jean-Michel Basquiat. “He would drop in, and I always had a big stack of paper by my typewriter,” he says. “He would just make drawings and give them to me.”
‪‬Glenn O’Brien discusses art, music, TV, politics, Andy Warhol and Basquiat in an interview with Open Ceremony; on his show TV PARTY, “I was rebellious but not angry”