John Giorno

Now 82, John Giorno was an icon for a dowtown NYC art scene that no longer exists. A poet and spoken-word pioneer, he appeared in Andy Warhol’s Sleep, in which he’s seen snoozing for nearly five and a half hours. He also did paintings characterized by epigrammatic texts, a technique maintained in his latest show, which presents inscribed bluestone boulders as well as new canvases.