Packet 5: Bonus 12

Marjorie Perloff’s biography of this critic emphasizes the influence of Jackson Pollock, who often subjected him to homophobic abuse despite his authorship of a flattering 1959 monograph. For 10 points each:
[10h] Larry Rivers painted what ARTnews critic wearing only boots? With Dorothy Miller, this curator helped bring Abstract Expressionism to European audiences in the 1958 exhibition The New American Painting.
ANSWER: Frank O’Hara [accept Frank O’Hara: Poet Among the Painters]
[10e] Frank O’Hara wrote Lunch Poems during his breaks at this Manhattan museum. As the first director of this home of The Starry Night, Alfred Barr drew a diagram emphasizing its commitment to 20th-century abstraction.
ANSWER: MoMA [or the Museum of Modern Art]
[10m] In “Radio,” O’Hara praises an orange bed in a painting by this close friend, whom he called Action Painting’s “Delacroix.” A series by this artist draws elements from cigarette ads and Sumerian fertility idols.
ANSWER: Willem de Kooning [prompt on de Kooning]
<HA, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-5

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