Frank O’Hara’s “To the Harbormaster”
Lately I’ve been thinking about Frank O’Hara and his sometimes terrible taste in men. I can’t help but see the painter Larry Rivers as a thoroughly undeserving recipient for one of my favorite poems,...
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Salter’s Armory
James Salter, Robert Rauschenberg, 1963, black-and-white photograph, 16 x 20 inches. If you are neither looking to buy art nor quite understand the glut of it before you, what do you do at the Armory...
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Staff Picks: Whither the Library, Mafia Men
Like many editors and critics, I depend on the New York Public Library because it has the books I need when I need them—whether it’s an obscure edition of Les Fleurs du Mal or a monograph on Mary...
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Staff Picks: Cruelty, Obsession, Cheekiness
Larry Rivers, Vocabulary Lesson (Polish), oil on canvas, 22 1/4″ x 33″. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery © Larry Rivers Foundation / Licensed by VAGA. What I know about the poets of my generation, I...
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Eileen Myles and Jeremy Sigler Go to an Exhibition
Jeremy Sigler and Eileen Myles at “(Re)Appropriations,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Photo: Andrew Arnot Not long ago, I found myself reading Jeremy Sigler’s 2009 interview with Eileen Myles in The...
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