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Jean Dubuffet and Frank O’Hara: “You know how wonderful the 20th Century can be”
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
“The Whitney Museum / was still on 8th Street”: Kenneth Koch and ever-changing New York
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
Posted in Art Exhibit, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, New York, Peter Schjeldahl, Poems, Visual Art
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Lunch Poems Turns 50! A Reissue and a Celebratory Reading
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frank O’Hara’s landmark book Lunch Poems, first published by City Lights Books in 1964. In honor of the book’s half-century birthday, City Lights is publishing a special 50th anniversary edition, … Continue reading
Jane Freilicher, “Painter Among Poets” at Tibor de Nagy
“Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets,” an exhibit currently showing at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York (April 13-June 14), has been getting a lot of attention and favorable notice (including a piece by Peter Schjeldahl in the New … Continue reading
Posted in Art Exhibit, Jane Freilicher, Peter Schjeldahl, Visual Art
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