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Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 25 · 47m

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…

Where we're coming from and where we're going.

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Abstract. Before the mid-twentieth century, pedagogy in many countries involved a considerable amount of memorization, perhaps especially in engagements wi

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

On reading grief through John Ashbery, or the other way round

Profiles of all the women named Helen in Troy, NY, with poems and images, mixing the classical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence. everybody died there’s nothing more to s...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.

Around New Year’s Eve, I often think of James Schuyler’s great and moving poem about the turning of the year, “Empathy and New Year” (which first appeared as the opening poe…

This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...

The illustrated poems, satirical ads, and talking shoes that filled the pages of C Comics.

Why did Picasso and Apollinaire head out into the night with the intention of throwing two antique Iberian sculptures into the Seine? Did Géry-Piéret steal the Mona Lisa?

The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?

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The Network for New York School Studies presents the online launch of Matthew Holman's 'Frank O'Hara and MoMA' with Matthew and John Yau.

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.