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John Yau

John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His latest poetry publications include a book of poems, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and the chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). His most recent monographs are Catherine Murphy (Rizzoli, 2016), the first book on the artist, and Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert (Black Dog Publishing, 2015). He has also written monographs on A. R. Penck, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. In 1999, he started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation, and criticism. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2007–2011) before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic. He is a Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).

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An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism

by John Yau September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

Mario Schifano moved nimbly among different modes and never settled into a style, which sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.

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Jim Nutt’s Art Deserves a Closer Look

by John Yau September 21, 2023September 21, 2023

By choosing the unforgiving surface of toothed paper and making irrevocable marks, Nutt enters a territory few American artists have dared to go.

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The Infinite, Never-Released Scream

by John Yau September 14, 2023September 19, 2023

Asako Tabata presents a stark, unsettling vision of a society in which women have little chance to achieve autonomy.

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What Did the Lion Tell the Tiger?

by John Yau September 7, 2023September 19, 2023

While Wu Junyong is deeply connected to his love of Chinese myths, folktales, and language, his subjects underscore his break with the past.

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How Blaise Cendrars Blazed a Trail Into Modernity

by John Yau August 17, 2023August 17, 2023

He integrated the language of advertising and journalism into his poetry, and was influenced by the rapid tempo of jazz.

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Painting Between the Machine and the Hand

by John Yau August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

For more than three decades, Lydia Dona has generated enigmatic abstractions that join together legible and indecipherable parts.

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The Many Lives of a Purell Bottle

by John Yau August 7, 2023August 7, 2023

In Purell Night & Day, Susan Chen focuses on the ubiquitous hand sanitizer, a reminder of the isolation we experienced during the lockdown.

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Artist Abby Donovan Pursues the Unnameable

by John Yau August 1, 2023August 1, 2023

The elusive connection between what we can and cannot express summarizes Donovan’s unique trajectory in contemporary art.

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The Enigmatic Genius of Magalie Guérin’s Paintings

by John Yau July 26, 2023July 27, 2023

In her latest exhibition, what struck me immediately about Guérin’s work was that it neither looked like anyone else’s nor immediately disclosed its meaning. 

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The Indecipherable Mark-Making of Rosaire Appel

by John Yau July 25, 2023July 25, 2023

Appel’s vertical and horizontal formats suggest a narrative that can be read, but what is within their borders resists understanding.

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An Original Artist in a World of Copies

by John Yau July 23, 2023July 21, 2023

Tom Burckhardt is a conceptual artist who has never defined himself as one because he knows the label is limiting.

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Kim Uchiyama Captures the Light of Sicily

by John Yau July 18, 2023July 18, 2023

Uchiyama’s question was how to capture the collision between nature and the manmade, the changing light and aging ruins she encountered in Sicily

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