The New York School, 1969 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

 Installation view. Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

  Installation view. Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

 Installation view. Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

From the Press Release:

New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 - 1970 was the Met's most exciting exhibition to date under the auspices of director Thomas Hoving, who turned Henry Geldzahler loose to price the art world to alertness. Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from January 13 - March 14, 2015. Curated by Stewart Waltzer, this comprehensive group show reprises Geldzahler's seminal exhibition and includes exemplary works by Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Joseph Cornell, Mark di Suvero, Dan Flavin, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hoffmann, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenberg, Jules Olitski, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, featuring works from the original exhibition.

By the early 60s, the genealogy of Abstract Expressionism had evolved to the fifth generation and new, unknown artists were finding fertile ground in a very rough-edged SoHo. By the end of the decade that melee had hardened into discreet "isms." It was then that curator Henry Geldzahler--cajoling, wheedling, loudly threatening obscurity and irrelevance--convinced the Met into presenting the exhaustively comprehensive survey show New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 - 1970. 

Geldzahler took over half the museum, more than 40 galleries, with 408 artworks. With taxonomic precision he delineated the thought and personalities that defined the New York School, specifying a broad horizon that stretched from Jackson Pollock to Andy Warhol. New York was the literal and metaphorical center of the arts, and Geldzahler included every artist that added a vital component to the party.

This exhibition is at Paul Kasmin Gallery not the Met. It comes 44 years later. But to see the shadow is to grasp the fierce and joyful intelligence of Henry Geldzahler. If you were not yet born in 1960, this show is a reminder that a great curator can change the way the future sees.

  Installation view. Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Andy Warhol

Frank Stella

Adolph Gottlieb

Robert Motherwell

The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through March 14, 2015

Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10001

Warhol's Orbit: 3 Writers, 30 Years

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait, 1986. 

Warhol's Orbit: 3 Writers, 30 Years
John Yau, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Megan Volpert
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 PM
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016

From the press release:

This autumn, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's major exhibition is "Regarding Warhol: 50 Artists, 50 Years." Warhol's influence extends not just across the visual arts, but across the literary arts as well. John Yau, Wayne Koestenbaum and Megan Volpert, three writers all notable for both poetry and essay, have been particularly concerned with Warhol. Yau's 1983 book of art criticism, Koestenbaum's 2001 biography and Volpert's 2011 hybrid poetry collection each explicitly shaped an understanding of Warhol's s

ubjectivity. These authors have carved a book out of Warhol, and conversely, Warhol continues to carve out a space in their books. Yau, Koestenbaum and Volpert will read from their latest work and have a conversation about Warhol's inexhaustible influence. There will be time for Q&A.

About the authors:

Wayne Koestenbaum, a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, has published fifteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Humiliation, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Hotel Theory, and Andy Warhol. An exhibition of Koestenbaum's paintings will be on view at White Columns in New York from October 27 through December 8, 2012. 

Megan Volpert is a poet and critic who lives in Atlanta, where she teaches high school English. Her fourth book is Sonics in Warholia (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011). Volpert has been in competition at the National Poetry Slam and is Co-Director of The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival. She is currently editing an anthology on queer pedagogy and researching a book on the American bicentennial. 

John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, critic, independent curator and publisher of Black Square Editions. His criticism includes In The Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993) and A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2009). His most recent book of poems is Further Adventures in Monochrome (2012). He was the Arts Editor of the Brooklyn Rail (2005 – 2011), but left to start an online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend. He has contributed to monographs on Joan Mitchell, Richard Artschwager, Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, Lois Dodd, Thomas Nozkowski, Philip Taaffe, Mary Heilmann and Catherine Murphy. He teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University), and lives in New York City.

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