Category Archives: PARIS

The Language Of Thieves

April 12, 2012 – 1:15 pm

Back in the 80s I lived on Ile St. Louis with a South African model. Her husband paid the rent. He lived in the South of France, where he had a clothing factory in Biot. Vanesse had lied to her husband and said that I was gay. “I have nothing against ‘gay’. Guy had fought […]

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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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I Sit Corrected

February 25, 2012 – 2:51 pm

Paris had been my home during the 1980s. I had good reasons to be out of the States. My name graced a FBI report about police corruption in New York and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. France was on the other side of the Atlantic and I felt safe in my hotel room […]

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Mais Ou Sont Passees Les Gazelles / Lizzy Mercier Descloux –

February 4, 2012 – 11:46 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarADNLq-FY

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The Touch Of Art

December 5, 2011 – 5:22 am

Famed ad exec and art collector Charles Saatchi lambasted the present hideousness of the art market on the UK Guardian’s commentary pages on the art market. “Art critics mainly see the shows they are assigned to cover by their editors, and have limited interest in looking at much else. Art dealers very rarely see the […]

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