Best known today as a painter, Martin Wong, was also a prolific writer.
Wong self-published books of poetry and included his writing into dozens of calligraphic scrolls, ceramics, drawings and paintings. Similarly, his paintings frequently incorporate fragments of poems from the Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, alongside tabloid headlines and graffiti tags.
Both poetry reading and séance, this event gives voice and new life to the artist, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1999, by inviting artists, poets, art historians and curators to perform passages from Wong’s curious, coded body of written work.
This event takes place in connection with Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden, organized by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.
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Wong self-published books of poetry and included his writing into dozens of calligraphic scrolls, ceramics, drawings and paintings. Similarly, his paintings frequently incorporate fragments of poems from the Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, alongside tabloid headlines and graffiti tags.
Both poetry reading and séance, this event gives voice and new life to the artist, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1999, by inviting artists, poets, art historians and curators to perform passages from Wong’s curious, coded body of written work.
This event takes place in connection with Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden, organized by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.
Best known today as a painter, Martin Wong, was also a prolific writer.
Wong self-published books of poetry and included his writing into dozens of calligraphic scrolls, ceramics, drawings and paintings. Similarly, his paintings frequently incorporate fragments of poems from the Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, alongside tabloid headlines and graffiti tags.
Both poetry reading and séance, this event gives voice and new life to the artist, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1999, by inviting artists, poets, art historians and curators to perform passages from Wong’s curious, coded body of written work.
This event takes place in connection with Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden, organized by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.
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Wong self-published books of poetry and included his writing into dozens of calligraphic scrolls, ceramics, drawings and paintings. Similarly, his paintings frequently incorporate fragments of poems from the Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, alongside tabloid headlines and graffiti tags.
Both poetry reading and séance, this event gives voice and new life to the artist, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1999, by inviting artists, poets, art historians and curators to perform passages from Wong’s curious, coded body of written work.
This event takes place in connection with Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden, organized by the CCA Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.
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