Actor, poet, activist, director--Julian Beck, who died in 1985, wore many hats. He was best known as a man of the stage, having founded the Living Theater with his wife, Judith Malina, in 1947, but he was also a productive and talented painter. After dropping out of Yale in 1943, Beck returned to his hometown of New York City to pursue poetry and painting. Two years later, his work was being shown at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, Art of This Century. During this time, Beck took up with ...