James Lee Byars: Days in Detroit

Follows the author’s 2017 book James Lee Byars: Days in Japan to illuminate a similarly crucial yet overlooked period in the artist’s development.

Decades after the death of the artist and aesthetic heretic James Lee Byars, episodes from his life have taken on the aura of urban legend. Born and raised in Detroit, he spent much of his adult life outside the United States. His first sojourn overseas was to Japan in 1958 at age twenty-six, and over the next ten years he traveled between Japan a...