{"id":285,"date":"2025-02-28T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:50:26","slug":"mike-kuchar-is-a-show-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/mike-kuchar-is-a-show-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Kuchar is a &#8220;Show Off&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/652318baffc1f3ea2fe835c8d9d8a20d_L.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly New York is delighted to present\u00a0Show Off,\u00a0iconoclastic filmmaker and visual artist Mike Kuchar\u2019s newest exhibition at the gallery\u2019s Lower East Side location.\u00a0Since the 1960s, Mike Kuchar has been a majorly influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes. Together with his twin brother George, the Kuchars gained cult recognition first in the Bronx and then in San Francisco for their over-the-top, no-budget films that sent up Hollywood epics, weepy romances, and sci-fi B movies. In iconic films like\u00a0Sins of the Fleshapoids\u00a0(1965),\u00a0The Craven Sluck\u00a0(1967), and\u00a0Death Quest of the Ju-Ju Cults\u00a0(1976), Mike developed his distinctive style that jettisoned traditional narrative structure and acting professionalism in favor of extravagant, tender sagas that would have a significant impact on emerging theorizations\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly New York is delighted to present\u00a0Show Off,\u00a0iconoclastic filmmaker and visual artist Mike Kuchar\u2019s newest exhibition at the gallery\u2019s Lower East Side location.\u00a0Since the 1960s, Mike Kuchar has been a majorly influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes. Together with his twin brother George, the Kuchars gained cult recognition first in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}