The painter Archie Rand has agreed to file occasional columns for us. On January 2nd, for example, we shall post six images from a collaboration Archie did with David Shapiro, "Kiss" (2017). Welcome aboard, Archie, whose birthday inspired Byron to dash off this poem:
The thirteenth of August
is way better than
"the Twelfth of Never"
as sung by Johnny Mathis
in the suburban cellar
where young people
made out in the twelfth grade
according to friends
who are into astrology
and argue that a man born
on the thirteenth of August
is leonine in nature, with an
expert eye and hand to match
(and I own one of his paintings).
Photo by Barney Kulok.
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