“Something Other Than a Spectator”

Film critic J. Hoberman is interviewed by Rob King about his latest book, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde – Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop (2025). Topics discussed include: film historiography and the role of chronology in historical writing; New York City’s alternative weeklies as a historical source; subcultures and the 1960s counterculture; and a range of artists, including Bob Dylan, Ken Jacobs, Yayoi Kusuma, Barbara Rubin, and Andy Warhol.