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Tumbling Dice

By Richard Hell

Georges Braque, Violin, 1914. Cut and pasted papers, with charcoal and graphite. The Cleveland Museum of Art. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris

  • 26 July 2024
  • Issue 10
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A new poem in our Antiphony series by Richard Hell, in response to Cubist painting.

Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910. Oil on canvas. AIC / Art Resource, NY. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pablo Picasso, The Glass, 1911–12. Oil on canvas. AIC / Art Resource, NY. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Juan Gris, Fantômas, 1915. Oil on canvas. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Richard Hell lives on the Lower East Side of New York. His latest book, What Just Happened (2023), is comprised of new poems by Hell and artworks by Christopher Wool, alongside Hell’s valedictory conspectus of an essay, “Falling Asleep,” and eighty-eight recent notebook entries.