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"Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies."
James Wright wrote that stanza in 1963 about young men playing high school football in Martins Ferry, Ohio. I couldn't help but think of his words when I saw Gary Hume's Cheerleader at 55 Houston Street. Different time. Different sport. Same sad, desperate beauty.
Having grown up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I remember well the extremes of desire that can appear in this tightly shaped arena. If anything, those desires have become even more rabid and organized over the years. Hume's painting might be a more caustic and less compassionate indictment than Wright's poem, but with good reason.
Again . . .
Money money: United Technologies
Money art consultants: Creative Time
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies."
James Wright wrote that stanza in 1963 about young men playing high school football in Martins Ferry, Ohio. I couldn't help but think of his words when I saw Gary Hume's Cheerleader at 55 Houston Street. Different time. Different sport. Same sad, desperate beauty.
Having grown up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I remember well the extremes of desire that can appear in this tightly shaped arena. If anything, those desires have become even more rabid and organized over the years. Hume's painting might be a more caustic and less compassionate indictment than Wright's poem, but with good reason.
Again . . .
Money money: United Technologies
Money art consultants: Creative Time
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