When I started writing reviews for Art News, in 1969, it was a poet’s magazine, and I was one of the young poets that John Ashbery recruited to write gallery reviews. The New York School poets are no less arrogant than any other, but this isn’t obvious at first glance because they cultivate off-handedness and understatement and occasional silliness.
This is a very moving essay because it memorializes a period that was characterized by personality. Artists, Writers and Poets, Musicians, are all unique and fascinating, wild and wonderful in all their variety. It was a period of acquaintance and interaction. I was still an 'art kid'. I studied on the street and in others studios. I met John Cage on the street and enjoyed his odd person. Don Judd was a mentor; I studied with George Segal directly, and he guided my growth. Leon Golub and many others became friends, all of distinctinction and diverse practice. We grow through interaction and excellent colleagues.
The era you describe may be a model for a near of far future, if we can find communications and forums that those journals represented. Art news, Art in America, Forum... yes , let's get Betsy out of retirement !
This is a very moving essay because it memorializes a period that was characterized by personality. Artists, Writers and Poets, Musicians, are all unique and fascinating, wild and wonderful in all their variety. It was a period of acquaintance and interaction. I was still an 'art kid'. I studied on the street and in others studios. I met John Cage on the street and enjoyed his odd person. Don Judd was a mentor; I studied with George Segal directly, and he guided my growth. Leon Golub and many others became friends, all of distinctinction and diverse practice. We grow through interaction and excellent colleagues.
The era you describe may be a model for a near of far future, if we can find communications and forums that those journals represented. Art news, Art in America, Forum... yes , let's get Betsy out of retirement !