
Filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger was a legendary Hollywood character, a visionary inheritor of an international avant-garde scene. But he also reveled in the vulgar and esoteric and essentially disappeared from the public eye for nearly a decade before his death.
Anger's death was reported Wednesday by the Sprüth Magers gallery, which has represented Anger's work since 2009. Spencer Glesby, who was Anger's artist liasion, told NPR that the filmmaker died on May 11 in Yucca Valley, California, of natural causes.