John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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Myron Stout, who was born in Denton, Texas, in 1908, made an early decision to be a painter but didn’t hit his stride until the late 1940s, after he had served in World War II.
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What the exhibition of Drummond and Dodd proves is that the art world was more diverse in the 1960s than has been told.
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If 1962 is the dividing line between one art world and what we seem to have inherited, Inventing Downtown will bring you back to the period before the “art Establishment crossed the street.”
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For a poet who is notorious for writing opaque poems, a number of collages celebrate the youthful male body with an innocence that is touching, tender, and, frankly, poignant, and sweet.
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It is the beginning of a new year and for some reason I have been thinking about flower paintings — perhaps prompted by the flower paintings that Edouard Manet made while he was dying.
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Throughout his life, Bruce Conner believed that even if you could not beat them, that didn’t mean you had to join them.
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Throughout his life, Bruce Conner believed that even if you could not beat them, that didn’t mean you had to join them.
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A look back at a critic's reviews, views, and articles.
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A look back at a critic's reviews, views, and articles.
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Betsy Kaufman works out on paper what she is going to do in the painting — a series of distinct steps, each requiring complete control.
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Some painters — following in the footsteps of Arthur Dove — offer us received images of transcendence. John Dilg isn’t one of them.
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I liked Outside In because I found out what five artists whose works I have followed are doing these days.