The Burroughs piece on show is Green Door (Acid Rain), in which the canvas – a door – is punctured by the force of bullets and covered with chromatic explosions of paint. Cadmium orange and deep green ...

From the moment he moved to Kansas in the 1980s, writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) – a central figure of the Beat generation and author of The Naked Feast (1959), a futuristic novel that ...