What’s the Alternative?

If you find yourself zigzagging across Connecticut in hot pursuit of the filthiest truths and the most fiendishly radical insights, stop in Storrs and visit the William Benton Museum of Art and have your mind blown by an exhibit I curated about the underground press from the middle part of the 20th Century.  It runs until October 14th and is titled What’s the Alternative?: The Art and Outrage of the 1960s Underground Press.  I’d describe it like this:

There’s a quote that is often attributed to Mark Twain, although it is more likely a brilliant misquote hobbled together from a number of disparate sources, that says: Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.  What’s the Alternative?: The Art and Outrage of the 1960s Underground Press examines the unique period in American history when adventurous chefs and pioneering home cooks of artistic, political, intellectual and cultural cuisine experimented with startlingly new menus that explored the thrilling and unpredictable multiplicitousness of taste and appetite, celebrating the full range, depth and efficacy of both deep nutrition and mad confectionery as it applies to truth, beauty and being.

I’ll be at the museum for the opening this Thursday, September 6th, from 4:30 – 7pm.

Dig it.