«I ♥ John Giorno,» a group exhibition conceived by Giorno's longtime boyfriend Ugo Rondinone, is a massive love letter to the
celebrated poet of the New York underground, with contributions from art - world luminaries
such as Billy Sullivan, Verne Dawson, Elizabeth Peyton, Michael Stipe, and Pierre Huyghe, among others.
During the hour, he called numerous
celebrated intellectuals
such as composer John Cage, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, futurist Herman Kahn, artist Joseph Beuys, novelist Jerzy Kosinski,
poet Michael McClure, and asked, in various ways, the following:
Through her mother, Mitchell met
celebrated poets,
such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Thornton Wilder, many of whom published their first work in the journal.
«Painters and
Poets» celebrates and tracks a number of crucial friendships from these interconnected circles of artists and poets, some of which were also love affairs, sometimes sexual sometimes not: Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, James Schuyler and painter and writer Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, with central figures also including painters such as Jane Freilicher, Rackstraw Downes, Neil Welliver, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex
Poets»
celebrates and tracks a number of crucial friendships from these interconnected circles of artists and
poets, some of which were also love affairs, sometimes sexual sometimes not: Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, James Schuyler and painter and writer Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, with central figures also including painters such as Jane Freilicher, Rackstraw Downes, Neil Welliver, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex
poets, some of which were also love affairs, sometimes sexual sometimes not: Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, James Schuyler and painter and writer Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, with central figures also including painters
such as Jane Freilicher, Rackstraw Downes, Neil Welliver, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex Katz.