John Giorno – the New York radical who broke art and poetry's boundaries

John Giorno in August, at a gala honouring his partner Ugo Rondinone in New York.
"'What do telephones, poetry and the Museum of Modern Art have in common?' read a press release issued by the New York institution on 21 July 1970. A question to which they might have added gay liberation, Aids activism, the aesthetics of advertising, Tibetan Buddhism and sleeping for Andy Warhol, and still received the answer of John Giorno. The artist and poet, who died on Friday aged 82, was the linchpin of New York’s downtown scene. ..."
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Dial-a-Poem from the retrospective Ugo Rondinone: I love John Giorno.

2012 June: The Dial-A-Poem Poets: The Nova Convention, 2014 March: The Dial-A-Poem Poets (1972), 2015 January: Dial-A-Poem Poets - Big Ego (1978), 2018 November: I ♥ John Giorno and So Should You