Category Archives: Art

CARDBOARD NOIR by Charlotta Janssen/Shannon Greer

February 1, 2014 – 7:35 pm

Art: Charlotta Janssen Photography: Shannon Greer Text: Peter Nolan Smith Styling: Liz Teich Grooming: Sabrina Rowe Digital Tech: Robert Bredvad Model: Brock Gloor

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A Dead Man’s Triptych

November 23, 2013 – 8:24 pm

Last week Christie of New York auction off a Francis Bacon triptych for a record $142 million to an unknown bidder. The rich and even more rich were ecstatic with the result, since the high-altitude sale reinforces all recent purchases of trophy art by dead painters. The Guardian wrote, “There can be no doubt the […]

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THE GAMES WE PLAY – House of Art – Opening

November 2, 2013 – 10:56 am

Tonight November 2 from 6-9 pm the House of Art Gallery will present THE GAMES WE PLAY So if you’re around 408 Marcus Garvey Avenue in Brooklyn, check it out. It’s where to be. I’ll be wearing my Celtics Green. Richard Beavers is 100% Knicks. I love my sports.

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Not Recommended Price

October 27, 2013 – 11:32 am

In the late-1970s I haunted the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The suggested admission was $5. I gave the cashier a quarter, since a fiver bought a nice meal at the Dorothy Draper’s elegantly designed Fountain Restaurant. Over the years I might have been to the museum a hundred times. I know the Asmat sculptures, the […]

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Hopper’s Delancey Street

September 21, 2013 – 12:33 pm

So little left of the Lower East Side. Hopper’s View from the Williamsburg Bridge.

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