Carter Ratcliff
Carter Ratcliff is a poet and art critic who lives and works in Hudson, New York.
The Capa Space, an exhibition venue in Yorktown, New York, is currently showing a selection of Taro’s photographs. Some are grim. Two Republican soldiers carry a third, wounded soldier on a stretcher. A dense crowd waits at the entrance to the morgue in Valencia, hoping for a chance to enter and of course hoping not to find family members and friends there.
Qui dentro/in here, the Lucio Pozzi exhibition at Magazzino Italian Art, in Cold Spring, New York, is among the season’s most important.
In 1968, I began to publish poems in The World, the Poetry Project’s magazine, and in the scene’s many other mags. During that year, I wrote make-believe versions of various things, including the short gallery reviews in the back of ARTnews. By the end of 1969, I was writing those reviews in earnest, though my “real” reviews weren’t all that different from my parodies.
I was impressed and a bit daunted by the inaugural exhibition at The Campus—works by over eighty artists, nearly all of them represented by the six Manhattan galleries that banded together to purchase the venue, an abandoned high school in Claverack, New York.










