EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Director
Director
Riva Castleman
American, 1930–2014
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
11 August 1968
Poets and Painters as Painters and Poets; Poets and Painters
COLLABORATION between painters and poets is one of those unprecedented phenomena that make "modern art" such a catchall category. An exotic hybrid of the two loneliest and traditionally "highest" arts, it could scarcely have flourished outside the hothouse of the modern avant garde -- the communities of innovating artists, uncertain or suspicious of their audience, grouped in the more cosmopolitan cities.
New York Times • page D17 • 1,291 words