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...Academically, he received a broad education, participating in one of Harvard’s first poetry workshops and immersing himself in the work of Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Joan Mir?? in a class on 20th century art. Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don’t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something...
...works—worth nearly $200 million, according to the New York Times—include works by Pablo Picasso, sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, surrealist painter Joan Mir?? and 22 other artists, and together with the $45 million, mark the largest gift in the Museum’s history...
...works include two sculptures by Brancusi, Picasso’s 1918 “Harlequin Playing the Guitar,” and Mir??’s 1945 “Woman in the Night.” The donation also contains pieces by contemporary American sculptors Richard Serra and Joel Shapiro, giving viewers the opportunity to see the work of living artists...
...1970s, everybody just knew that painting was dead; real artists did installations or sawed houses in half. But Elizabeth Murray disagreed, creating big, shaped canvases in declamatory colors featuring cartoonish references to bodily form and household objects, like Morning Is Breaking, above. Influenced by Stuart Davis, Picasso and Mir??, as well as the comics she loved as a kid, Murray blended high and low within her pieces and in their exhibition; two of her large mosaic murals adorn New York City subway stops. She was 66 and had lung cancer...
...intellect, even if it's not," he says. "My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically. I just say, 'Yeah. Cool.'" As he says this, I feel the confusing disappointment that I imagine young women painters feel when they find out Joan Mir?...