A celebration of the great New York City gallery with John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Douglas Crase, Alfred Leslie, Ron Padgett, and Jenni Quilter. Moderated by Robert Polito.
The Tibor de Nagy Gallery originated in 1949 in the unlikely form of the Tibor de Nagy Marionette Company, the brainchild of John Bernard Myers, an avid art collector, author, and puppeteer, and its namesake, a former Hungarian banker. The marionette company received strong support from prominent abstract expressionists including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock. Two art-related businesses were established in association with the gallery: the Watson-de Nagy Gallery in Houston and Tibor de Nagy Editions, which arranged collaborations between visual artists and poets. Among the poets were John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Frank O’Hara, for whom Tibor de Nagy Editions was their first New York publisher. In the 1960s, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery began to shift its emphasis from abstraction to realism, hosting the first New York solo exhibitions of such artists as Rosemarie Castoro and Jonathan Lasker. Since de Nagy’s death in 1993, the gallery has been directed by Andrew Arnot and Eric Brown.
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