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Not Recommended Price

October 27, 2013 – 11:32 am

In the late-1970s I haunted the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The suggested admission was $5. I gave the cashier a quarter, since a fiver bought a nice meal at the Dorothy Draper’s elegantly designed Fountain Restaurant. Over the years I might have been to the museum a hundred times. I know the Asmat sculptures, the […]

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Uncool Punk

May 9, 2013 – 8:13 pm

During the late-70s I often visited the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The suggested admission was $2. As a punk from CBGBs I gave nothing. That paintings on the walls belonged to rich people and the antiquities had been stolen from around the world. My favorite paintings were el Greco’s VIEW OF TOLEDO and Thomas […]

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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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NYC Art Appreciation 101

June 8, 2010 – 7:31 am

A savvy news reporter interviewed Andy Warhol in the 1960s. His questions were posed to embarrass the pop icon. Many art critics considered Warhol a fraud. The journalist thought that he was smarter than Andy and asked, “Really, Mr. Warhol, what do you think about Art?” “I think it is a very good name for […]

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