Lee Klein is a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

, essay

Essay

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...

ist, and writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 on the arts

The arts

The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance and...

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Career

He is the author of the "World's Biggest Shopping Mall Poem" about the taking over of reality by consumer culture. This poem was published by Linear arts in 1997 (ISBN 1-891219-0-6) in a limited edition followed by "Financial Surrealists Take the Train" (ISBN 1-891219-52-9) in 1999.

As an essayist he has written for PAJ (Performing Arts Journal, formerly Johns Hopkins now MIT Press) including a featured piece on art after nine-eleven “Art on the Eve of destruction” which arose from his notes for a lecture he gave at Lafayette College

Lafayette College

Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...

 in Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....

 in 2002. Other articles he penned for this journal include "Dennis Oppenheim: The Artist as Toymaker and the Viscious Amusement Park of the pre-millennial baroque" ; "The Poetics of Removable Presence in the Work of Damian Loeb

Damian Loeb

Damian Loeb is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s.Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, founder of Deitch Projects and current director of LAMoCA, Loeb had his first solo in 1999...

", and "Bonfires of the Urbanities: The Public art of Barnaby Evans

Barnaby Evans

Barnaby Evans is an artist who works in many media including site-specific sculpture installations, photography, film, garden design, architectural projects, writing and conceptual works...

". He has written catalogues or catalogue entries for artists including Roberto Azank

Roberto Azank

Roberto Azank was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955; the grandson of an oil canvas artist and the son of a master embroidery designer....

, Brian Gormley, Peter Bradley, Tyrome Tripoli, Salma Arastu

Salma Arastu

Salma Arastu is an Indian artist, living in North America. Arastu is a native of Rajasthan and had a masters in fine arts from MS University in Baroda. Arastu's main mediums include clay sculpture, paper mache, and print work. She has also worked extensively with calligraphy and produces greeting...

 and Heidemarie Kull.

As curator and essayist he combined the two roles to animate the concept of "Hypertexture" as it applies to plastic arts and curated two exhibitions therein ("Hypertexture" in July 2003 and "Hypertexturalities" from September 8 - October 7, 2006). These exhibitions included the work of leading artists David Reed

David Reed (artist)

David Reed is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.-Art:David Reed is known as a colorist and for creating long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes...

, Fabian marcaccio

Fabian Marcaccio

Fabian Marcaccio is an Argentine born artist living and working in the United States whose trans-genre works including "Paintants" and '"Draftants" have been exhibited worldwide....

, Pia Fries, Jamie Daglish, Ed Kerns

Ed Kerns

Ed Kerns is an internationally exhibited American artist and academic whose works of painterly and digital imagery have been the subject of or have been included in more than forty solo exhibits and 150 group and collaborative exhibitions worldwide...

 & Elizabeth Chapman, Rick Hildebrandt, Stephen Wilkes

Stephen Wilkes

Stephen Wilkes is an American photographer known foremost for his series of abandoned structures such as at Ellis Island and the former Bethlehem Steel factory which he has captured as a lost world caught in a sort of visual amber...

, Mark Milloff, Will Pappenheimer, Ron Janowich & Merijn Van Der Heidjin at the Florence Lynch Gallery in the Chelsea

Chelsea, Manhattan

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 section of Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

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He is a contributing editor to "A Gathering of the Tribes

A Gathering of the Tribes (Cultural Organization)

A Gathering of the Tribes is a multi cultural interdisciplinary arts organization founded by Dr. Steve Cannon at his home in New York City's East Village. The Organization publishes a literary magazine and has now presented its twelfth issue...

" literary journal, for whom he interviewed art critic Dave Hickey

Dave Hickey

David Hickey is an American art and cultural critic. He has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair...

 as well as artists David Medalla

David Medalla

David Medalla is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris....

 and Mahi Binebine

Mahi Binebine

Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages....

.

In 2006 Artforum

Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

magazine wrote of his interaction with artnet editor Walter Robinson at a party for BOMB magazine.

As an actor he has appeared as art critic Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...

 in Bill Rabinovitch's spoof "Pollock Squared". He continues to contribute to NYArts

NYArts

NY Arts Magazine or NY Arts, was founded by Abraham Lubelski in 1995. NY Arts Magazine is published quarterly, as well as online, and is edited by Jason Stopa, a graduate of Pratt Institute. Jason Stopa replaced Suzie Walshe as executive editor in 2011.NYArts has a readership of over 65,000. The...

magazine and M: the New York Art World.

Klein is now a tour guide

Tour guide

A tour guide provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest...

 for the Gray Line

Gray Line Worldwide

Gray Line Worldwide operates local sightseeing tours across the world using trolley coaches, double-deckers and standard single deck coaches. It also offers charter services, airport transfers and convention services....

double-decker bus company in New York City.

External links

• http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/paj/v023/23.2klein_l.html
• http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/performing_arts_journal/v024/24.3klein01.htm
• http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/152028103322491656?journalCode=pajj
• http://www.damianloeb.com/history/paj92002.html