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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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The Hidden Poetry of Everyday Life

by John Yau September 28, 2022September 29, 2022

More than 100 modest and intimately scaled artworks in Still Life and the Poetry of Place provide glimpses into interiors, both humble and opulent.

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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space

by John Yau September 27, 2022September 28, 2022

Whatever else Mire Lee’s Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.

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Jordan Casteel Won’t Rest on Her Laurels

by John Yau September 22, 2022September 22, 2022

I was curious to see Casteel’s first exhibition since her New Museum show. I was not disappointed.

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Aubrey Levinthal Chronicles the Estrangement in Everyday Encounters

by John Yau September 21, 2022September 22, 2022

Finding her subject matter in ordinary, everyday encounters, Levinthal hints at a subject’s interiority and to the way strangers are separated from each other.

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Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness

by John Yau September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the struggle for liberation and cultural identity.

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Mira Park Knows What We Dream About

by John Yau September 7, 2022September 8, 2022

In her art, Park is in touch with our collective anxieties about a future that seems to darken with each passing day.

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Philip Guston’s Haunted Testimonies

by John Yau August 18, 2022August 19, 2022

Guston became a witness to the 20th century’s darkest and foulest experiences without closing his eyes or turning away, and enabled us to see and reflect upon this brutality.

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Naotaka Hiro and Embodying the Act of Painting

by John Yau August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

The gap between the material body and the psychological one, which we all too often take for granted, is one of the underlying themes of Hiro’s exhibition.

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Norman Bluhm’s Second Act

by John Yau August 4, 2022August 5, 2022

It is time that the art world recognize what Bluhm went on to do during the last three decades of his life, when he was deep into his own territory.

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Sonia Gechtoff Finally Gets Her Due

by John Yau July 27, 2022July 28, 2022

Gechtoff’s work did not fit into any of the New York art world’s narratives of progressive art. It is time we look closer at what this marvelous artist achieved.

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Robert Colescott’s Indecorous Truths

by John Yau July 21, 2022July 28, 2022

Colescott’s use of stereotypes and humor continues to make viewers feel uncomfortable because it jabs indelicately at our complicity.

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The Visionary From Antigua

by John Yau July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

The sense of isolation, of being alone in the natural world, is pervasive in Frank Walter’s art, and yet one can also sense a muted calm.

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