Article: Jack Pierson. (Luhring Augustine and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York)

LUHRING AUGUSTINE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Check in to jackness as into a hotel, because the jack in Jack Pierson has the same Schiaparelli dazzle as the jack in Jackie O., deep-lilac perfume of tragedy, too; spunk of jacking-off and of Jack Russell terriers; sweet immediac of porn, delicacy of violets, pansy expanse of Jack Smith. Jackness is a fraction, Diane Arbus divided by Diana Ross; all the roses here buzzing pink divided by all the roses long gone. Lover and ex in the same lovely body. Laughing until crying.

I wish all the pages about Pierson's esthetic of the pathetic, as if his work were only a blueprint of dejection, would burn up and blow ...

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