Category Archives: Art

homer’s GULF STREAM – Photo Roman

March 23, 2019 – 2:14 pm

Dark Man lived on Crooked Island. His people had been slaves. They were free now. Poor, but free, and Dark Man was one of the best fishermen in the Bight of Acklins. Waking at day clean his wife cooked a meal and he left Maddie with a kiss. “I goin ta sea.” “All a ya […]

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“Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” (1972) by David Hockney

November 15, 2018 – 10:26 pm

Why would anyone sell such a piece of iconic beauty capturing a time never to be seen again? The owner must have seen it too much. At one point all beauty fades to gray. ps $90 million buys a day of beer drinking in Thailand. For everyone.

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Drawings 1978 by Peter Nolan Smith ( a non-artist )

November 14, 2018 – 8:34 pm

A theater. A bank. Battery Park Marine Fire Station. Tugboat. A warship. Desertion. Whaling ship. Junkie space. A good thing I never tried to be an artist. Drawings 1978 by Peter Nolan Smith ( a non-artist )

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THE BRITISH INVASION by Duncan Hannah

November 14, 2018 – 8:09 pm
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The End of SIMON OF THE DESERT

August 25, 2018 – 10:30 am

“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman’s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.” This quote was uttered by Luis Bunuel. The famed surrealistic film maker was a renown sophisticated […]

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