Matthew James Holman is Lecturer in English and Fine Arts at The University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has held research fellowships at The Courtauld, UK, Yale University, USA, the Smithsonian, USA, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, Germany.

Matthew Holman’s exhaustively researched and methodically written book, Frank O’Hara: New York Poet, Global Curator, manages to be a superlative biography, not only of this gifted poet, but also a revealing memoir of the heady times in which he lived, a detailed chronicle of the city he so loved, and a tender portrait of the important Museum of Modern Art that many people, myself included at first, did not realize counted him among its most effective ambassadors of contemporary visual art.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Curating Modern Life1. This is All Living Art 2. The Bar Américain Continues to be French 3. In Favor of One’s Time4. Blue Territory5. Make it New, Make it Over6. The Slightest Loss of Attention Leads to DeathAfterword: Living Situations in New York and LondonAppendix: O’Hara’s exhibition record for MoMANotesIndex

Matthew James Holman is Lecturer in English and Fine Arts at The University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has held research fellowships at The Courtauld, UK, Yale University, USA, the Smithsonian, USA, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, Germany.

Matthew Holman’s exhaustively researched and methodically written book, Frank O’Hara: New York Poet, Global Curator, manages to be a superlative biography, not only of this gifted poet, but also a revealing memoir of the heady times in which he lived, a detailed chronicle of the city he so loved, and a tender portrait of the important Museum of Modern Art that many people, myself included at first, did not realize counted him among its most effective ambassadors of contemporary visual art.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Curating Modern Life1. This is All Living Art 2. The Bar Américain Continues to be French 3. In Favor of One’s Time4. Blue Territory5. Make it New, Make it Over6. The Slightest Loss of Attention Leads to DeathAfterword: Living Situations in New York and LondonAppendix: O’Hara’s exhibition record for MoMANotesIndex

Matthew James Holman is Lecturer in English and Fine Arts at The University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has held research fellowships at The Courtauld, UK, Yale University, USA, the Smithsonian, USA, and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, Germany.

Matthew Holman’s exhaustively researched and methodically written book, Frank O’Hara: New York Poet, Global Curator, manages to be a superlative biography, not only of this gifted poet, but also a revealing memoir of the heady times in which he lived, a detailed chronicle of the city he so loved, and a tender portrait of the important Museum of Modern Art that many people, myself included at first, did not realize counted him among its most effective ambassadors of contemporary visual art.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Curating Modern Life1. This is All Living Art 2. The Bar Américain Continues to be French 3. In Favor of One’s Time4. Blue Territory5. Make it New, Make it Over6. The Slightest Loss of Attention Leads to DeathAfterword: Living Situations in New York and LondonAppendix: O’Hara’s exhibition record for MoMANotesIndex