Richard Milazzo
   
  Richard Milazzo was the editor and co-publisher of Out of London Press in the 1970s. Among the books he collaborated on was the first English facsimile edition of Pontormo’s Diary (New York, 1982). In 1981, he co-edited La rosa disabitata 1960-1980 for Feltrinelli, one of the first anthologies to document the post-Gertrude Stein ‘language’ writing movement in America. Before he stopped writing poetry in 1982, his works appeared in Il Verri, Tam Tam, and other magazines. These early writings were recently collected into a book entitled, Alogon: Early Poems 1969-1981, and were published by Tokyo Publishing House (Tokyo, 2007). Most recently, he translated (in collaboration with the author) Nanni Cagnone’s latest book of poetry from the Italian into English, Index Vacuus (New York, 2005).
Since 1982, he has worked internationally as a critic and curator in the art world. His exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a whole new generation of artists in the 1980s – artists such as Ross Bleckner, James Welling, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince, Mark Innerst, Allan McCollum, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Haim Steinbach, Jeff Koons, Philip Taaffe, Robert Gober, Not Vital, Saint Clair Cemin, Annette Lemieux, Sal Scarpitta, Meg Webster, Lawrence Carroll, and Vik Muniz, among others. In the early 1980s, he co-published and co-edited Effects: Magazine for New Art Theory in the East Village, and from 1986 to 1988 he was the American co-editor of Kunstforum (Cologne). Among the many publications of those years were Radical Consumption and the New Poverty (New Observations, 1987); Art at the End of the Social (The Rooseum, Malmö, 1988); and Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art, the lectures they delivered as Senior Critics at Yale University in 1988 and 1989, which were originally published in 1989 and 1990 in two volumes in Paris, and which were recently reissued in an Italian edition by Campanotto Editore (Pasian di Prato, 2005).
In the 1990s, he curated an exhibition space he founded, 11, rue Larrey, at Sidney Janis Gallery, and co-founded and edits the publishing house, Edgewise Press. He has curated, both in the United States and Europe, major one-person exhibitions of the works of Malcolm Morley, Ross Bleckner, Sandro Chia, Abraham David Christian, Robert Longo, Saint Clair Cemin, Alessandro Twombly, David Salle, Alex Katz and Mark Innerst. In 1993, after a hiatus of twelve years, he returned to writing poetry, with the volume Le Violon d’Ingres: Sunday Poems and Lineations 1993-1996. Most recently, he has written major monographs on Saint Clair Cemin and Ross Bleckner.
Among his other recent books are Malcolm Morley: The Art of the Superreal, the Rough, the Neo-Classical, and the Incommensurable 1958-1998; Streets of Gold: Palermo to New York / New York to Palermo; Caravaggio on the Beach: Essays on Art in the 1990s; Hotel of the Heart: Poems 1997-2001; Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things; Along the Hudson: Poems and Drawings (in collaboration with Abraham David Christian); Il Facchino di Venezia (The Porter of Venice): Poems 2002-2003; Green Nights / Golgotha / Love’s Quarrel: Poems 2001‑2003; Mute Sirens: Poems and Photographs (in collaboration with Carlo Benvenuto) and Stone Dragon Bridge: Poems 2006-2007.
He is currently writing monographs on the artists Peter Halley and Philip Taaffe, and forthcoming are two volumes of poetry, Small China Moon and Keats Dying in Your Arms. He lives and works in New York City.

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