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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Roy Lichtenstein Still Lifes
May 13, 2010 – 10:53 am
Still lifes are, perhaps, not the first things that come to mind when hearing the name Roy Lichtenstein, but after viewing last Saturday’s opening at Gagosian gallery, there’s no question that the pop artist could paint fruit bowls and vases with the best of them. The first exhibition ever to be fully dedicated to Lichtenstein’s [...]
