Richard Milazzo
Richard Milazzo is a critic, curator, publisher, independent scholar, and poet from New York City. In the 1970s, he was the editor and co-publisher of Out of London Press. He is the co-founding publisher and editor of Edgewise Press. In the 1980s, under the rubric of Collins & Milazzo, he co-curated numerous Collins & Milazzo Exhibitions and co-wrote with Tricia Collins essays on art and art theory.
Life and work and Edgewise Press
Richard Milazzo is a graduate of McBurney School and Franklin and Marshall College. In the 1970s, he earned an M.A. for his thesis on Ezra Pound’s Cantos at City College of New York.He is the editor of Edgewise Press, a small press art publication house founded by Milazzo in 1995. It maintains editorial offices in New York and Paris and is dedicated to publishing small, uniformly packaged, paperback books on art criticism, art theory, aesthetics, philosophy, fiction and poetry.
Since 1982, he has worked internationally as a critic and curator in the art world. In the early 1980s, he co-published and co-edited Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory in the East Village.
Among the many publications of those years were Radical Consumption and the New Poverty ; Art at the End of the Social ; and Hyperframes: A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art, the lectures they delivered as Senior Critics at Yale University in 1988 and 1989. They were reissued in an Italian edition by Campanotto Editore in Udine in 2005. In 2014 Milazzo authored the book Peter Nagy: Entertainment Erases History for Eisbox Projects.