Weekend: Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Alvin Armstrong

I thought that for this holiday weekend, it would be appropriate to quotes these lines from Frank O'H

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 needa piano to sing, and naming things is only the intentionto make things. A locomotive is more melodiousthan a cello. I dress in oil cloth and read musicby Guillaume Apollinaire’s clay candelabra.— John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified. John Yau

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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 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 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 How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object? Michael Glover

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

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