What are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Many of Them?
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
San Francisco has major show of Picasso + the Stein siblings (Gertrude et al) as collectors
Bill Berkson
Bill Berkson’s most recent books include Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems; Not an Exit, with drawings by Léonie Guyer; and a collection of art writings, For the Ordinary Artist. He is Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, a contributing editor (poetry) for artcritical.com, and a corresponding editor for Art in America. His previous collection of art writings, The Sweet Singer of Modernism appeared in 2004. Other publications include Sudden Address: Selected Lectures and many other books of poetry. He was the Paul Mellon Distinguished Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for 2006 and awarded the Goldie for Literature by the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 2009.
In early 2011 he curated an exhibition of George Schneeman’s Italian landscape paintings at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, a version of which show will appear at the ICI New York in 2012.
Photo credit: Joanne Kyger.
In early 2011 he curated an exhibition of George Schneeman’s Italian landscape paintings at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, a version of which show will appear at the ICI New York in 2012.
Photo credit: Joanne Kyger.
Featured Articles by Bill Berkson
The Visitor: Vermeer’s Milkmaid at the Met
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
September 10 to November 29, 2009
The 53rd Venice Biennale
Monday, June 1st, 2009
In the Teatro la Fenice or the Chiostro Verde of San Giorgio one likes everything a little bit more than one might elsewhere. – Igor Stravinsky, in Stravinsky & Craft,Conversations with Stravinsky From the dais on the grass outside the U.S. Pavilion, at the June 4th press conference for Bruce Nauman’s exhibition, the State Department’s…
Paolo and Francesca, with paintings by Oona Ratcliffe
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Bill Berkson’s 1982 translation of Dante revised in 2009 and coupled with paintings by Oona Ratcliffe
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