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Byron’s first really major piece was a Duane Hanson sculpture. He had the eye for the unusual and the daring. Ted told us what to buy; we all bought Frank Stellas and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. He told us to buy African, American Indian, art nouveau, art deco and contemporary art, and to buy the best piece we could afford.
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Warhol, Jasper Johns works to go on exhibit in Asheville
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection exhibition opens at the Asheville Art Museum this week.- 5:37 pm A guilty verdict in a rape case that relied on DNA testing shows that crucial evidence stored in...- 1:39 pm Today figures to be 24 momentous hour from The Asheville Citizen-Times Read more »
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Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays
I have sought to liberate in language natural powers of the poem itself. Form came in commanding cadences and rimes, sequences of vowel sounds and consonant clusters that let toward melody; and in the excitement of the music, I was transported beyond the from Books and Culture: A Christian Review Read more »
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London – “The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns” through June 9th, 2013, Barbican London
Taking a diverse look at Marcel Duchamp’s influence on artists around the globe, the Barbican in London is currently presenting , following the artist’s influence on several modern masters in the fields of composition, choreography and the visual arts. F from Art Observed Read more »
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Native Sons
60 years after Jasper Johns made the first of his Flag masterpieces, the American flag continues to be an irresistible subject for contemporary artists. Star Spangled Shadows, a screen print showing the stars and stripes reworked with a geometric Native from 2Modern Design Talk Read more »
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Bob Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy by Michael Chabon
View full sizeThe century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters said that Bob Dylan has become the first rock star to join the ranks of its artists, who include Philip Roth and Jasper Johns. The Associated Press The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, th from Oregon Live Read more »
