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2 days ago · This is from John Ashbery’s greatest hit, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” a great contemplation of art for any self-portraiture artist. I guess you know when any blog post begins with an Ashbery quote, this is going to take a minute.
13 hours ago · John Ashbery wrote a poem entitled “Daffy Duck in Hollywood.” His “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape” features Popeye and his family. There was a camp quality to the Art News sensibility, around the edges, anyway.
3 days ago · Because the Romantic escape hatch compensates in the form of a daydream existence: as in John Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” which reveals the imagination as the very supplement that allows us to tolerate our feeling (remaining) stuck.
5 days ago · Her cooking drew crowds, a mélange of art, theater and literary types, among them the poet John Ashbery, the painter Howard Kanovitz, and the composer Lukas Foss and his wife, the painter...
3 days ago · John Ashbery loved Erik Satie’s “Musique d’ameublement” — furniture music, which was written to be played between the acts of another work while people in the audience were milling ...
5 days ago · John Banville The Art of Fiction No. 200; Annie Proulx The Art of Fiction No. 199; Poetry. John Ashbery Um; John Ashbery The Plywood Years; John Ashbery The Tower of London; John Ashbery Chair Rental; John Ashbery Sons of the Desert; John Ashbery Something It Wasn’t; Mark Bibbins Horoscopes without Telescopes; T. Zachary Cotler Beautiful ...
4 days ago · Whenever I want to restore my sense of optimism and joy in life, I turn to the poetry of Frank O’Hara (1926-66). Of all the New York School poets, my favorite, I must admit, is John Ashbery, but Frank O’Hara is not too far behind, and his work is so enjoyable and exuberant, it always makes the weight of the world feel a little ...
