A beautiful, social being with a smile that was like sunshine, he also inspired generations of our country’s most radical artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, critics, and idols of the beau monde. He described himself as a poet, though in his brilliant life he was also a visual artist a performer a record producer and distributor a civil-rights, gay-rights, and aids activist a central, vocal member of the Tibetan Buddhist community in America and a philanthropist who quietly supported poets and artists in need. JOHN GIORNO, who left New York and this world on October 11, 2019, at the age of eighty-two, was one for the pantheon. John Giorno, The World Just Makes Me Laugh, 2017, silk screen on canvas, 48 × 48".
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