“In 15 years as a poet, playwright, critic, curator, and universal energy source in the lives of the few hundred most creative people in America, Frank O’Hara had rendered that world wholly unprepared to tol­erate his passing.”

An insider with close ties to artists such as Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, the art historian enriched his criticism with a sense of personal investment

We are children of the edge, of that place where land and sea meet