10.13.2009

John Yau: Visiting Artist Lecture, Wednesday, October 14, 5:30pm



John Yau is an art critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer who will be speaking Wednesday, October 14 at 5:30pm. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1950, shortly after his parents fled Shanghai. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. His collections of poetry include Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (1996), Berlin Diptychon (1995), Edificio Sayonara (1992), and Corpse and Mirror (1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery. His books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology. Yau's honors include the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the General Electric Foundation. He lives in New York City.

Meyerson Hall Upper Gallery
210 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

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