Tuesday, March 08, 2011

News at Eleven (Back Page): The body of Frank O'Hara--the broken nose,

the bouncy gait, the jaunty posture--was a special fixation, almost the Mont Sainte-Victoire of this coterie. [Larry] Rivers especially ranged across media to figure out how O'Hara's personal dynamism might be captured in static form; his plaster bust of O'Hara, its single blue eyeball suggesting the effaced and white-washed grandeur of the classical past, is one of the show's highlights.

from The New York Review of Books Blog: 'A Vanguard of Friends'

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