Poet and performance artist John Giorno is many things to many people. It depends on who you talk to. To some, he’s simply lost in translation. The author of Suicide Sutra and Thanks for Nothing is fatalistic, shockingly blunt, incendiary, controversial, and pornographic – according to his critics. His defenders claim the iconic figure in [...]
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Keith Haring’s Ten Commandments at Deitch Studios
January 26, 2009 – 2:33 pm
Deitch Studios in Long Island City has resurrected one of Keith Haring’s most prolific series of paintings: The Ten Commandments. The installation was originally painted for Haring’s first solo museum show in Bordeaux in 1985, but this will be the first time the commandments have shown in the U.S. Haring’s interpretations of the commandments are [...]
