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Category Archives: Jackson Pollock
“Ninth Street Women”: The New York School (of Painters, Mostly) Comes to TV
Those of us who have been hoping for years for a Frank O’Hara biopic or Netflix mini-series devoted to the New York School poets will have to wait, but there is exciting news in this department: Amazon just announced that … Continue reading
On Frank O’Hara and Willem de Kooning
Well, I have my beautiful de Kooning to aspire to. I think it has an orange bed in it, more than the ear can hold. — Frank O’Hara, “Radio” Today is the birthday of the great painter Willem de Kooning, … Continue reading
Vincent Warren, love of Frank O’Hara’s life, passes away at 79
Sad news for readers of Frank O’Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O’Hara’s life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O’Hara himself. … 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
Nostalgia (or Not) for The Cedar Tavern
Another Frank O’Hara sighting in the news. In a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Bye-Bye Bohemia,” Lee Siegel pondered the fate of the Cedar Tavern, the legendary hangout of the Abstract Expressionist painters and New York School poets in … Continue reading