Michael Heller named Poetry Editor at artcritical, publishes Dda with alpert+kahn
Michael Heller has been named the new Poetry Editor at artcritical, taking over from Bill Berkson. This announcement aligns with the release of Dda, a poetic sequence that includes eight graphic pieces by Renée Alpert and Douglas Kahn, drawing inspiration from Picasso's 1907 artwork Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Heller's writing reflects on both Picasso and the Dda series. The collaboration between Alpert and Kahn began in 1987 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alpert holds an MFA from Yale, awarded in 1984, and has received grants from the Ford Foundation. Kahn, an architecture alumnus of Pratt Institute, has contributed to Architectural Record and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Their artworks are part of collections like The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Heller has authored over 20 volumes and has been honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Key facts
- Michael Heller succeeds Bill Berkson as Poetry Editor at artcritical
- Dda is a poetic sequence with eight graphic works by alpert+kahn
- alpert+kahn's Dda series is based on Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
- Renée Alpert earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1984
- Douglas Kahn worked for architects Marcel Breuer and Richard Meier
- alpert+kahn's work is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe
- Michael Heller's poetry first appeared in the 1960s in Andalusia, Spain
- Heller has collaborated with composer Ellen Fishman Johnson on Philadelphia Fringe Festival works
Entities
Artists
- Michael Heller
- Bill Berkson
- alpert+kahn
- Renée Alpert
- Douglas Kahn
- Pablo Picasso
- Jane Joseph
- Jacob Lawrence
- Michael Spafford
- Marcel Breuer
- Richard Meier
- Van Deren Coke
- Ellen Fishman Johnson
- Walter Benjamin
- Jane Augustine
Institutions
- artcritical
- Yale School of Art
- Ford Foundation
- Pratt Institute
- Architectural Record
- The New York Times Sunday Magazine
- Arbitare
- Domus
- The Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe
- The Cinema Institute of Moscow
- Fine Arts Center @ Cheekwood
- Roswell Arts Center
- Vision Gallery
- Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Poetry Society of America
- The Fund for Poetry
- Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Locations
- Santa Fe
- New Mexico
- United States
- Brooklyn
- Miami Beach
- Andalusia
- Spain
- New York
- Moscow
- Russia
- San Francisco
- Pueblo
- Colorado