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
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 15.41 | 100% | 51% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |