Category Archives: Art

$20 On The Scream

May 2, 2012 – 5:41 pm

Tonight Edvard Munch’s The Scream will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s in New York. Experts are estimating the final hammer price at $80-100 million for the 1895 pastel. A friend attending tonight’s extravaganza called me on his walk to the auction. “I think it will go for $245 million.” This ‘Scream’ is one of four. […]

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F Is Not For Fake

April 26, 2012 – 6:36 pm

My editor Adrian sent this photo from Christie’s in London. They want 50K Sterling for this scribbling by Karen Kilimnik. I worked the door of the Bains-Douches in that era of error. And I’m worthless. No commercial value no sell out – Pascha Ray But I do like her work.

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Good-Bye Philippe Waty

April 9, 2012 – 11:53 am

Tomorrow in Paris friends of Philippe Waty will be gathering to say good-bye. He was a good guy.

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Beauty as a Beast

March 27, 2012 – 1:25 pm

Photo and painting of Lady Caroline Blackwood “A mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers.” Robert Lowell husband/poet

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Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered […]

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