Category Archives: Art Exhibit

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (11/15/21)

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Andrew Epstein

Here is one of my semi-regular roundups of recent links and news related to the New York School of poets. (Previous roundups can be found here).

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Jim Jarmusch and the Art of Collage

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Andrew Epstein

The filmmaker Jim Jarmusch – whose deep connections to the New York School poets has been discussed here before – has quietly been making collages for the past twenty years, but never exhibited them before and “was content to keep … Continue reading →

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“Works from the Collection of John Ashbery,” at Kasmin Gallery in NY

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

An exhibition of artworks from the collection of the late John Ashbery opens tomorrow (11/1) at the Kasmin Gallery in New York.  Over the course of his long life, Ashbery collected works by a wide range of artists, many of … Continue reading →

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Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory” as an “Everyday-Life Project”

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

For the past six weeks, Bernadette Mayer’s important early multimedia work Memory has been on display at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago (the exhibition closes on April 27).  In conjunction with the exhibit, the Poetry Foundation hosted an artist’s talk with … Continue reading →

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Frank O’Hara Exhibition in London: “Why I Am Not a Painter”

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

If you’re lucky enough to be in London over the next month, check out the new exhibition devoted to Frank O’Hara at the Poetry Library at the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank, which would seem to be another sign of O’Hara’s increasing prominence in … Continue reading →

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Jean Dubuffet and Frank O’Hara: “You know how wonderful the 20th Century can be”

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

In this week’s New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl reviews an exhibit currently showing at the American Folk Art Museum in New York called “Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet.”  The show is devoted to Dubuffet‘s large collection of “outsider art” … Continue reading →

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Resurrecting Raymond Roussel, the “Proust of Dreams”

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

In the New York Times, Holland Cotter reviews the debut exhibit at the new Galerie Buchholz in New York which is “giving us something wonderful that we haven’t had before: a retrospective of the French writer Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).”  The brilliant and bizarre Roussel, … Continue reading →

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The Collages of John Ashbery and Guy Maddin

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

John Ashbery has been making collages on the side, as it were, since he was in college, and in recent years, he has begun exhibiting them.  Currently, there is an exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York showcasing collages by … Continue reading →

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“The Whitney Museum / was still on 8th Street”: Kenneth Koch and ever-changing New York

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

                           There’s been a lot of discussion and praise for the opening of the Whitney Museum in its new home today in the Meatpacking District, in a building designed by the … Continue reading →

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Elaine de Kooning, Frank O’Hara, and the New York School

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., is currently hosting a large exhibition devoted to the work of Elaine de Kooning.  De Kooning, like her husband Willem, was a good friend and ally of many poets of the New York School. The show, entitled “Elaine … Continue reading →

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