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Enjoy, & I hope to see some of you (the New Yorkers) tomorrow
(wednesday) evening at MoMA for the following event:
MoMA
6:30 p.m.
Modern Poets
Concerts, Readings & Performances
1907/2007: Poets on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The Celeste Bartos Theater, mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy
Cullman Education and Research Building
Three times a year, poets read historical works and their own work
that reflects on modern and contemporary art.
In conjunction with the one hundredth anniversary of Pablo Picasso's
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, May's installment of Modern Poets reflects
upon Picasso's masterpiece, other works in the Museum's collection
made in 1907, and the year 1907 itself. Readings include works
written by Picasso's friends and acquaintances—such as Guillaume
Apollinaire, Gelett Burgess, André Salmon, and Gertrude Stein—who saw
and responded to Les Demoiselles, as well as other literature from
this cultural and artistic milieu. Following in the tradition of the
MoMA Members Magazine, which commissioned poets to respond to works
in the collection and then published the results, the Museum also
offers contemporary poets the opportunity to write new poetry about
art from all curatorial departments made one hundred years ago.
Participants include Mary Jo Bang, poet and Associate Professor of
English and Director of the Creative Writing Program, Washington
University, St. Louis; Mary Ann Caws, author, translator and
Distinguished Professor of English, French, Comparative Literature,
and Film Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New
York; Pierre Joris, poet, translator, essayist, and Professor of
Poetry and Poetics, State University of New York, Albany; Jerome
Rothenberg poet and professor of visual arts and literature,
University of California, San Diego; and others.
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso's
Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100
Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other
museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film
desk, the Cullman Building lobby, or online at www.ticketweb.com.
Pierre
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