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http://www.nysun.com/arts/freilicher-and-friends/88283/
Xico Greenwald reviews the exhibition Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, on view through June 14, 2013.
Greenwald writes: "The offhanded, intimate approach adopted by Freilicher and some of her fellow painters belies the critically important contributions these artists made to the canon of twentieth century art. One of the works in the show, Pierrot and Peonies, 2007, pays tribute to French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau. Watteau’s friendships with players from commedia dell'arte informed his work, with troupe members posing in costume for paintings depicting human dramas. In Freilicher’s work, too, the artist has gone outside the art world for a creative exchange. Her friendships with New York School poets have deepened her relationship to her surroundings and the paintings here are richer for it."
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http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2013/01/milton-resnick-1917-2004-three-poems.html
Jerome Rothenberg writes about Milton Resnick's poetry and posts three unpublished poems by the painter.
Rothenberg also writes that "Resnick was a very visible & dynamic artist when we met him in the early 1960s, but beyond that he was also a persistent practitioner of poetry, less in a public sense than as a release for feelings & ideas that were a necessary supplement to his life’s work as a painter" Rothenberg continues, noting that Resnick "left behind at least 16 envelopes of unpublished, often handwritten poetry with some 40 poems in each. The poems that follow (the last one in particular) were written in the desperation of his later years, when the overall brightness of his early abstractions had changed to figurative depictions of what I would take, rightly or wrongly, as the terror (still luminous) within."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9366285/Metamorphosis-Titian-2012-poetry-in-paint.html
Martin Herbert talks to Seamus Heaney about Titian, poetry, and painting on the occasion of he cross-disciplinary Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 sponsored by the National Gallery, London. The exhibition/event invited visual artists, poets, choreographers, and composers to respond to three Titian paintings in the National Gallery.
Heaney, Herbert writes, "chose to write about The Death of Actaeon – in, as he says, 'a sonnet and a half; 14 lines, then six.' ...In Titian's painting, a horror show of a scene glimpsed through the gorgeous brown blur of the Italian’s late loose paint handling – the atmospherics and dreamy openness, perhaps, creating room for another creator to later inhabit it – we see the hunter sprouting horns as the dogs race towards him... 'I always thought of the stag as the thing in that painting, and it was the physical weight of the antlers that I felt,' says Heaney, 'and at the end Ovid says about Actaeon's companions that they're cheering on the hounds. The irony of that, I felt, should be a bit cruel – cruel and ironical at the same time.”
The Telegraph also published a selection of poetry in response to Titian by Heaney, Tony Harrison, Christopher Reid, Carol Ann Duffy, Wendy Cope, and Simon Armitage.
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http://artistinanaframe.blogspot.com/2012/06/painted-word-like-gold-to-aery-thinness.html
Ann Knickerbocker blogs about the exhibition The Painted Word at Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, on view through July 14, 2012. The exhibition features visual artwork by Bay Area poets and writes including William Saroyan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Hirschman, Jess, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Christopher Felver, John Keating, William S. Burroughs, and David Meltzer
Knickerbocker writes that the "show at Meridian pulls together writer/artists working from the mid-1940's to the 2010's and makes us SEE the fullness of what the arts are and, specifically, what painting and poetry might BE if we can only see them, combined."
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http://canopycanopycanopy.com/14/_tudes
A fascinating multi-media presentation of the poetry of painter Florine Stettheimer, introduced by Nick Mauss, with readings by Karl Holmqvist, Dignity Sister, and Dan Fox.
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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/mar/09/elizabeth-bishop-other-art/
William Benton writes about poet Elizabeth Bishop's virtually unknown work as a painter. As Benton describes, "Bishop enjoyed being innovative and invisible at the same time. As a painter, she discovered in the limited range of her skills an intrinsic value. To see it made it so. Meyer Shapiro, the distinguished art critic, said she 'writes poems with a painter’s eye.' " Benton is the author of Exchanging Hats a book about Bishop's paintings.
This post was found via Maureen Mullarkey's excellent blog Studio Matters. Studio Matters posts featured on Painters' Table can be found here.
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http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/03/anslem-kiefer-des-meeres-und-der-liebe-wellen-white-cube-hoxton-london.html
Sue Hubbard reviews Anselm Kiefer, Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen at White Cube in London. She writes: "... each work is an attempt at a moment of fixity in the continuous flux of the ocean. Gynaecological instruments superimposed on the surface of the works disrupt traditional Romantic readings and imply a desire for human intervention in the timeless cycles of birth and death... [Kiefer] has been criticised for being theatrical ... Yet in this increasingly frightening and unfettered world we need artists like Kiefer ... who are prepared to face what is tragic rather than endlessly celebrating what is glib, slick and ephemeral."
This post was found via Deborah Barlow's excellent blog Slow Muse. Slow Muse posts featured on Painters' Table can be found here.
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http://bombsite.com/articles/4974
Tabitha Piseno interviews Callum Innes and Colm Toíbín. Innes, a painter and Toíbín, a writer, collaborated on a commission exhibited at Sean Kelly Gallery as "water / colour, an installation of 101 watercolors by Innes, and excerpts of text from the short story Toíbín wrote in response to the artist’s paintings." Interviewed individually, each artist discusses the other's work and the process of artistic collaboration.
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http://theartblog.org/2011/02/dawn-breaks-thousands-of-windows-in-the-city-poets-and-painters-in-collaboration-at-the-tibor-de-nagy-gallery/
Thomas Devaney visits the exhibition Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painter and Poets on view through March 5, 2011. Tibor de Nagy gallery played a central role in the development of New York School poetry by commissioning significant collaborations between poets and gallery painters including: Helen Frankenthaler, Alfred Leslie, Trevor Winkfield, Nell Blaine, Joe Brainard, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Jane Freilicher and Fairfield Porter. Devaney characterizes the show as "dreamlike," re-creating the salon atmosphere of the gallery’s early days through paintings, collaborative books, a film, and ephemera. An extensive slideshow is also available at the Tibor de Nagy gallery website.
