This is not just the opening of an exhibit of paintings and drawings from the era of psychedelic and visionary art, then. The Godfathers exhibit establishes psychedelic and visionary art as a historic ...

This swirling mass may look like some kind of LSD trip, but it's actually fractal artwork created using bacteria. Produced by Eshel Ben-Jacob—a ...

The act of hanging this way was a suggestion from Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who is considered the father of LSD, synthesizing the psychedelic drug in 1943.

A piece of art, left, that Mark McCloud had created for his daughter, titled, "Barbie returns stolen LSD to the people"; a large psychedelic illustration, right, featuring Institute of Illegal ...

Image from the cover of LIFE magazine, September 9, 1966, accompanied by the headline, "New Experience That Bombards the Senses: LSD Art." Yale Joel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images ...

It is hard to collect art that is made to be consumed, but beginning in the 1980s, Mark McCloud, an artist, occasional professor, and full-time furry freak from San Francisco’s lingering psychedelic ...

States started to ban LSD in the mid '60s, and the feds outlawed it in 1968, which is often blamed on Leary. ... filled with psychedelic art, music, and immersive exhibits.

When you think of LSD, a very specific aesthetic probably leaps to mind: the psychedelic pink-and-orange swirls of the 60s; naked people with flowers in their hair; the shimmer of a sitar.

Psychedelic art was considered dangerously subversive 50 years ago. A new exhibition in London called Reflections from Damaged Life asks whether anything of aesthetic worth came out of the genre.

VIDEO: For LSD, What A Long Strange Trip It's Been : Shots - Health News It's been reviled and revered, criminalized and exploited by the CIA. And now and other psychedelic drugs are being tested ...