Ron Horning
Ron Horning’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanitas, and Blazing Stadium. His books include To Our Amazement and The Dante, the Tevere, the New Riviera. He lives in Beacon, New York.
The current exhibit at the Robert Olnick Pavilion of Magazzino, of thirteen works by or about Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) amounts to a retrospective covering most aspects of the seminal Italian artist’s output from 1956 until his death at twenty nine.
The drawings by Leonor Fini at Nagas, its inaugeral exhibition, are quite different from her no less carefully painted oils. Such drawings probably do exist for the stage and ballet settings Fini designed for Balanchine and Genet.
Fifty eight years after Delmore Schwartz’s heart attack in the hallway of a hotel off Broadway in midtown Manhattan, readers have access to almost the full spectrum of his poetry, a gift to anyone who cares about twentieth century verse in English.
Ron Horning's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanitas, and Blazing Stadium. His books include To Our Amazement and The Dante, the Tevere, the New Riviera. He lives in Beacon, New York.
It’s usually too soon to write off what might seem, at first glance, a great artist’s less compelling work, as these small paintings would make abundantly clear if nothing else did. For more than a hundred years, Giorgio de Chirico has been revered for the so-called metaphysical paintings he made before, during, and right after the first World War. Then, in 1919 according to John Ashbery, de Chirico’s painterly genius “evaporated”…
While the Collected Poems is retrospective, printing the poems Auden wanted as he wanted them by the time of his death, the Princeton Poems, exhilaratingly prospective, prints the poems as they first appeared in individual books, recreating Auden’s poetic development as it actually happened from 1928 to 1972, including many poems later eliminated, plus the poems from the posthumous Thank You, Fog.
If a professional musician was never a personal friend, you’re likely to have never wanted to hear demos, band practices, gigs recorded from the audience, radio broadcasts, and tapes made at home. But if the musician is Peter Laughner, an extraordinary singer/songwriter and a feral guitarist from Cleveland, Ohio, the only studio records are the first two Pere Ubu singles (“Thirty Seconds over Tokyo / Heart of Darkness” and “Final Solution / Cloud 149”)—on which he played guitar but didn’t sing—made shortly before he was fired from the group he’d founded with David Thomas.
June 2018Music
Voices at the End of the Night: The Fall, New Facts Emerge, Cherry Red Records, 2017 Mike Hudson & the Pagans, Hollywood High, Ruin Discos, 2014
The Fall’s previous studio album, Sub-Lingual Tablets, ends with guitar lashed diatribes against Facebook and iPhones, and the first cut on New Facts Emerge is “Segue”—so what’s the target this time?
When you walked into the gallery—light, low, and airy—the first thing you saw were large color prints of Doric temples at once warring Sicilian towns, the single photo of the temple at Segesta made at a distance.
