Category Archives: Art

Dead Presidents For Dead Man’s Art

September 9, 2012 – 1:30 pm

A reporter once asked Andy Warhol his opinion about art. The pop icon answered without hesitation. “It’s a nice name for a man.” Warhol has been dead for years, yet his paintings made up 17% of auction sales of contemporary art in 2010. Millions upon millions for his foundation and friends. Proving that while you […]

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RanXerox – Tanino Liberatore

August 23, 2012 – 5:22 pm

My life in Paris is well behind me. My last visit was in 2011. Like New York changed during my years in Thailand from a city of artists to a metropolis of wealth. Thanks to Facebook I have been able to reconnect with old friends and last year I was pleased to hear that the […]

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Corbusier In Camouflage

August 17, 2012 – 2:55 pm

Le Corbusier or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret has been universally recognized as one of pioneers of modern architecture, yet every genius has been undeified as demonstrated by the transformation of the Villa Besnus or “Ker-Ka-Ré” in Vaucresson, France. The villa was built in 1922 in a Paris suburb and le Corbusier incorporated many of his Purist ideals […]

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Dead Fish Auction

June 24, 2012 – 6:30 pm

In the winter of 1969 a foul storm blew an unknown sea creature onto Duxbury Beach south of Boston. The WBZ radio announcer reported it to be a ‘sea monster’. My brother, sister, and I jumped into our VW and drove through a hard rain to a forlorn stretch of beach. A crowd was gathered […]

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Gone With The Scream

May 2, 2012 – 7:26 pm

The Scream by Munch went for $107 million. I lost $20 to Rals. My hunch of $245 million wasn’t even close, proving once more that I don’t know shit. And happy to admit it.

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