Category Archives: Art

Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

February 4, 2013 – 10:22 pm

I inherited THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE from my grandmother’s library. This macabre image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was illustrations rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh from THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. I loved Edgar Allan Poe’s works, especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of […]

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The Truth About Whores

January 6, 2013 – 6:44 pm

“Beware of whores that don’t want money. The Hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money.” William Burroughs. Several years ago I had occasion to visit the Elk Gallery on Crosby Street. Jocko Weyland was curating a photography exhibition of lurid bloody vistas of wild Italian youth. Punk, guns, and drugs […]

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Modern Forever

December 29, 2012 – 9:54 pm

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, park avenue, manhattan Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue to be the crown jewel of corporate modernism and the 38-story skyscraper has withstood the architectural assault of time. Last week I was walking past 375. My eyes were drawn into the […]

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THE FOG November 2012

November 27, 2012 – 3:34 pm

Shannon Greer captured the morning fog lingering off the Southern California coast. There are no ghost ships within the fog, only within our minds thanks to John Carpenter’s movie THE FOG. It did not star Kurt Russell, but Jamie Lee Curtis had a role. I think she survived to the end.

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Christo’s Pyramid

November 26, 2012 – 3:06 pm

The world-famous wrapper Christo has announced his newest project, MASTABA, a multi-colored pyramid constructed of hundreds of thousands of oil barrels. The $339 million structure will be erected in the Abu Dhabi desert as a permanent tourist attraction for the wealthy emirate. The height will beat out that of the Great Pyramid of Giza and […]

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