Books
The Liberating Power of Conversations About Art
When I got to know Bill Berkson, my life as a writer was completely changed.
Bill Berkson
Art
The Quietly Radical Paintings of George Schneeman
In a real and deep sense, Schneeman was an integral part of a historical moment taking place on the Lower East Side before gentrification.
Poetry
Clues If Not the Keys: New Poetry from Bill Berkson
“Why should I look at this [art] instead of out the window?” asks Bill Berkson in one of the prose poems from his stellar new collection, Expect Delays.
Art
Quattrocento on the Bowery: The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman
Perhaps the most prolific exemplar of free-spirited collaboration from the New York art scene of the 1960s was the painter George Schneeman, the unofficial artist-in-residence of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church from its earliest days.