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Penny Arcade - The Woman Who Created Performance Art

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 16:15
Submitted by Betty Dodson

Penny and I have admired each other's ground breaking art for decades.
We agree as sister artists that the best thing in the world a woman can
do is to have a BAD Reputation. Carlin and I call our business BAD
Media, LLC. And my initials spell BAD. Can't wait to read her book, Bad Reputation.

She was a runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer
in the legendary New York City Play-House of the Ridiculous at
seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen.
Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art.

She'll be reading from Bad Reputation in San Francisco at City Lights Bookstore on November 17th. http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=801

Liberating women one orgasm at a time

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