2009 - 2012

Major New Book

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, edited by Ron Padgett and with a foreword by Paul Auster, from the Library of America (2012). 550 pages.

Events 2012

Reading from The Collected Writings, with Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach, & Ron Padgett, at Bard College, February 9.

Joe Brainard solo exhibition, “Painting the Way I Wish I Could Talk,” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, March 15-April 21.

Reading and exhibition for The Collected Writings, at Living Arts, Tulsa, April 3.

Book party for The Collected Writings, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, April 5.

Group reading from The Collected Writings, at the Poetry Project, New York, April 18.

Screening of Matt Wolf’s new film I Remember: A Film about Joe Brainard, at The Kitchen, New York, May 7.

Group reading from The Collected Writings, The New School, New York, May 8.

Group reading from The Collected Writings, at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, May 9.

Group reading from The Collected Writings, at Skylight Books, Los Angeles, May 9.

Exhibitions of Joe Brainard’s Art

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Apex Art, New York
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
Center for Book Arts, New York


Books by Joe Brainard

Me acuerdo, Spanish translation of I Remember (Sexto Piso, Barcelona, 2009)
Me’n recordo, Catalan translation of I Remember (L’Avenç, Barcelona, 2011)
Ich erinnere mich, German translation of I Remember (Wald + Graf, Zurich, 2011)
Translation of I Remember forthcoming in Japanese


Publication in Books and Magazines

American Arts & Commentary
Court Green
Persistent Voices
(Alyson Books, 2010)
Rain Taxi
Frank O’Hara Now
(Liverpool University Press, 2010)
Tate Etc. (London)
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010)
Art, Word, and Image (Reaktion Books, forthcoming)
Lost and Found (Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, 2009)

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