Billy Al Bengston

Billy Al Bengston's Sonny is in "Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970" at the Getty.; Credit: COPYRIGHT BILLY AL BENGSTON

Billy Al Bengston: Art Takes Balls

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession. We all worked......