Weekend
May 29, 2021 • View in browser
I thought that for this holiday weekend, it would be appropriate to quotes these lines from Frank O'Hara’s poem, “Memorial Day 1950.”
Poetry is as useful as a machine!
Look at my room.
Guitar strings hold up pictures. I don’t need
a piano to sing, and naming things is only the intention
to make things. A locomotive is more melodious
than a cello. I dress in oil cloth and read music
by Guillaume Apollinaire’s clay candelabra.
— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend
Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
John Yau
Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion
Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion
Armstrong’s paintings explore the role of Black athletes as agents of social change even as white fans push back.
Taylor Michael
Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism
Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism
Tarn’s meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
Joseph Donahue
The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings
In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself.
John Yau
Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?
Michael Glover
Required Reading
Required Reading
This week, the lack of Black board members at LA arts organizations, how a stolen Magritte painting may have funded terrorism, the NFT funhouse mirror, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
From the Store
"Late-Night Chat is Filled with Dreams" Mug Set x Yayoi Kusama
"Late-Night Chat is Filled with Dreams" Mug Set x Yayoi Kusama
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