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Tim Keane

Tim Keane's writing on poetry and visual art has appeared in Modern Painters, The London Magazine, Utne Reader, The Brooklyn Rail, Vision China, and in Joe Brainard's Art (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020), Irish Urban Fictions (Springer Intl., 2019), and Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th Street Show (Katonah Museum of Art, 2019). His writing has earned awards from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Bronx Council on the Arts. He teaches at BMCC, CUNY.

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The Seductive Music of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Avatar photo by Tim Keane September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives.

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The Hidden Truths of Lou Reed’s Musical Poetry

Avatar photo by Tim Keane August 22, 2022August 22, 2022

Reed’s terse song-stories rely on humorous and torqued and poignant metaphors, and serve up pop cliches in order to turn them inside out and reveal hidden truths.

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The Iranian Poet Who Became an American Action Painter

Avatar photo by Tim Keane July 21, 2022July 21, 2022

A new book introduces two Manoucher Yektais: the stateless, anti-historical Modernist painter and the poet writing narrative verse exclusively in Farsi.

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Reuben Kadish’s Enduring Portraits of Human Anguish

Avatar photo by Tim Keane June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

Kadish’s fossil-like heads, forms, and figures remind us that every civilization, including our own, eventually collapses.

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The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life 

Avatar photo by Tim Keane May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

Somehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse.

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Transformation and Dreams in Dorothea Tanning’s Later Work

Avatar photo by Tim Keane April 10, 2022April 11, 2022

As Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations.

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David Byrne’s Hopeful Drawings

Avatar photo by Tim Keane March 17, 2022May 2, 2022

Byrne’s drawings makes me wonder what else art is for, but to remind us that what we call “being reasonable” is too often our expedient alibi for not using our imagination.

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Reading Anne Ryan’s Poetic Collages

Avatar photo by Tim Keane March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

Ryan harnessed visual art as a means for creating poetry through the relatively new, nonverbal idioms of American abstract art.

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Painter Edith Schloss Remembers a Life Lived in Art

Avatar photo by Tim Keane December 23, 2021December 23, 2021

Schloss’s The Loft Generation creates a mirror-memoir, as literary portraiture doubles as veiled self-portraiture.

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Art on the Threshold of Visual Perception

Avatar photo by Tim Keane October 28, 2021October 29, 2021

Agustín Fernández’s visual innuendos seduce the viewer into lingering on the threshold of visual perception.

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Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet

Avatar photo by Tim Keane April 9, 2021November 23, 2022

Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.

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The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism

Avatar photo by Tim Keane February 13, 2021February 13, 2021

Since Aimé Césaire’s death in 2008 at the age of 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies, his Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization.

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