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Category Archives: Andy Warhol
The Time Marisol Got in a Brawl with John Ashbery and Ripped Off Frank O’Hara’s Shirt
As the New York Times reported earlier this week, “Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the … Continue reading
New York School Sons (to Delmore Schwartz)
The New Yorker has posted a piece by John Ashbery on the writer Delmore Schwartz. The essay, which Ashbery first gave as a talk in Japan in 1996, has not been easily accessible in print until now, but it will apparently … Continue reading
John Perreault, “Polyartist” of the New York School (1937-2015)
The New York Times reports today that the poet, artist, and art critic John Perreault has passed away, at the age of 78. In Terence Diggory’s Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, Perreault is described as “an emblematic figure … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Warhol, Bernadette Mayer, John Ashbery, John Perreault, Kenneth Koch, Visual Art, Vito Acconci
The New York School, and more, in Louisville
I’ve just gotten back from the very fun and stimulating Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (directed by the esteemed poetry scholar Alan Golding) which, this year at least, amply demonstrated that scholarly work devoted to the poets of the New York School … Continue reading
Wynn Chamberlain (1927-2014), Painter of “Poets Dressed and Undressed”
The painter Wynn Chamberlain recently passed away at the age of 87, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Friendly with Frank O’Hara and other poets of the New York School, a fixture in the Andy Warhol orbit, Chamberlain achieved notoriety in the mid-1960s for his series … Continue reading
Jed Perl’s Art in America: Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and More
The esteemed Library of America has just published a massive new anthology called Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism, edited by Jed Perl, the art critic for the New Republic. The … Continue reading
Alex Katz’s Birthday and “The New”
The Allen Ginsberg Project has a good, typically link-rich post up today in honor of the painter Alex Katz’s 87th birthday. (I’ve written before about Katz and his close ties to New York School poetry here and here). Among other things, it … Continue reading
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