Spotlight on AB Gorham

February's Spotlight is live on House Talk. Poet AB Gorham was a participant in Flying House 2010. Stop on by and hear what she has to say about her art and collaboration.

Flying House is reading applications!

Our website has been updated, the final bits and pieces of our 2010 show are wrapping up, and now we're getting excited for next year! Please send us your work and be a part of our collaboration project.

The show is in October.
The show is in Chicago.
The show is super fun.
The show needs artists and writers just like you!

Plus, Flying House is on it's way to becoming a fully legit non-for-profit company, so soon all your donations will be tax deductible.

Jeremy Allan Hawkins LIVE!!

Check out Jeremy Allan Hawkins' take on the Flying House mission in February's feature article on House Talk. He talks about architecture, idealism, and the division of the arts in his article "Frank Lloyd Wright, the Interstate, and the House: a Romance."

Read. Think. Discuss. We'd love to know your thoughts.

When Art Dallied With Poetry

“Pyrography: Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery II,” a 1977 Larry Rivers portrait of the poet John Ashbery at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.



On J’s latest ad client outing, he had the chance to spend a few hours sleeping at the Ritz Carlton in Atlanta, Georgia. They give out complementary newspapers there, so he asked for the New York Times (once a New Yorker, it stays in the blood). The WeekendArts section led with an article entitled When Art Dallied with Poetry on 53rd Street. Beautiful. He immediately sent it my way.

In 1950, a group of artists and poets started up a little gallery on 53rd Street, a few blocks away from the center of the New York art scene, and started doing something crazy––pairing poetry alongside artwork. Just to name drop for a sec, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery group consisted of a few artists who made a name for themselves: John Ashbury, Frank O’Hara, Grace Hartigan, Larry Rivers, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, etc. But whether you’re impressed by the gallery’s lineup or not, the point is, if it worked once, why not make it work again? Maybe better.

Get inspired. Send us some art. Comment on some art. Be a part of Flying House.

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The Writing and Drawing Lab

Lauren Groff (who I love even though she doesn't know it...yet) has co-founded The Writing and Drawing Lab, and hopes to get it up and running this year. It looks like a great program, one up the Flying House alley, and we wish her all the luck in the world.

Goodreads

Flying House has joined Goodreads! Click on the link in our sidebar to see what we've been reading. Reviews to come.