Obama '08 by Jonathan Horowitz

Congratulations...

...to Scoli Acosta, who created the cover for (and has an interview in) the first issue of Area Sneaks. 

Scoli won the £10,000 Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist at the Zoo Art Fair.

Over at Frieze Magazine's new blog, editor Jennifer Higgie has posted a video of Frank O'Hara reading "Having a Coke with You," and accompanies it with a question: "Who, now, is writing poetry that knows about visual art in the way that Frank O’Hara did?"

I offered up as a first response some of the poets associated with UbuWeb, but I could have mentioned others. What's slightly irritating about her question is that it's posed as a lament on poetry's supposed ignorance of contemporary art; but strictly speaking, it reveals a lack of knowledge of contemporary poetic practice on the part of those who work in the field of contemporary art.