Frank Ohara

Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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A Motley Crew

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, New York Art Exhibitions, Marlene Dumas, Alex Katz, Still Life, Alice Neel, David Zwirner, Figurative Painting, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Portraits, Video, Arts News

With an art career spanning from 1920 to the 1980s, Alice Neel painted family, poets, singers, bohemians, strangers and celebrities. She famously stuc...

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Joe Brainard's Sweet Irony

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, New York School Art, Frank O'Hara, Video, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Joe Brainard, Joe Brainard Art, Slidepollajax, Joe Brainard Tibor De Nagy, New York School, Arts News

Joe Brainard was born in Salem, Arkansas and moved to New York City shortly after high school. He then immersed himself with the New York School, an a...

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A Poetry Hotline? The Dial-A-Poem Project

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Joseph Kosuth, John Giorno, Jackson Pollock, John Ashbury, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Hotline, Dial a Poem, Poetry, Gregory Battcock, Books News

The Poetry Foundation: "Become Your Own Yawn" Information and the Dial a Poem Poets By Katie Geha In a 1970 Arts Magazine article, art c...

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"Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The New York School of Painting, Frank O'Hara, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, The New York School of Poets, Grace Hartigan, Matt Berninger, The National, Arts News
Daniel J. Kushner

How can poetry embody the painting? How can the painting encapsulate the essence of the poem? With its new exhibition, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery goes a long way in illuminating the relationship.

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Trilling Lecture, Paco Benet, Martha Foley, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Alfred-Leslie, Rudy Burkhardt, Carson McCullers, The Reading Room, Chekhov, Jean-Luc Godard, J.D. Salinger, Louise Lasser, Claude-Lanzmann, Hans Hoffmann, Beat Generation, Primo Levi, Velazquez, Apropos De Nice, Barbara Probst Solomon, Kenneth Koch, Cervantes, Frank O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Moma, Peter Schjeldahl, The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Dissent, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Vigo, Abstract Expressionism, Tibor-De-Nagy, Jane-Freilicher, Larry Rivers, John Updike, Norman Mailer, El Pais, Robert Lowell, Marcel Proust, Prado, Felix-Nussbaum, Lionel Abel, Breathless, Columbia University, Grace Hartigan, Helen-Frankenthaler, Peninsula, Professor Yerushalami, Joseph Roth, Arts News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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Money Can't Buy You Love But Art Friendships Can Create Joy

Mira Schor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Rackstraw Downes, Ron Padgett, Rudy Burckhardt, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, New York School, Painting, Poetry, Arts News
Mira Schor

The most sustaining force in an artist's life is supportive friendship with other artists. And if those friendships also are the basis for artistic collaboration, that is more marvelous still.

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Words and Pictures: at Tibor de Nagy and Condo's Subversive Art at The New Museum

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Red Grooms, Kanye West, Marc Jacobs, Charles Henri Ford, Anne Waldman. George Condo, Bob Dishy, Jon Robin Baitz, Rudy Burkhardt, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Kenward Elmslie, John Ashbery, Alex Katz, Tibor De Nagy, Joe Brainard, Duncan Hannah, LeeLee Sobieski, Judy Hudson, Poet Honore Moore, Joan Mitchell, Arts News
Regina Weinreich

On a random Friday afternoon between snowstorms, visitors to Tibor de Nagy's midtown gallery for the "Painters & Poets" exhibit marveled at the small ...

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Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Bowen, JD Salinger, Raymond Chandler, Salinger, Twain, Franz Kafka, Proust, Kafka, Carver, Raymond Carver, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, Frank O'Hara, Books News

Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...

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Poetry And Ruthless Careerism: How To Become The Most Famous Poet In America Overnight

The Poetry Foundation | Jim Behrle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Jim Behrle, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Books, Writing, Poets, Jewel, Publicity, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Self Promotion, East Village, Books News

24/7 Relentless Careerism: How you can become the most important poet in America overnight Jim Behrle The Poetry Foundation [Editor's note: Thi...

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Meditations In an Emergency

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Frank O'Hara, Other Flowers James Schuyler, Poets, Other Flowers, James Schuyler, Books, Poetry, Books News
Travis Nichols

O'Hara and Schuyler are great poets for hard times. Friends who have been there, and, it seems, will continue to be, they give us courage to go on our nerve in whatever emergencies arise.

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