Category Archives: PARIS

Mais Ou Sont Passees Les Gazelles / Lizzy Mercier Descloux –

February 4, 2012 – 11:46 am
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RICHARD IS A FORKHEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

February 4, 2012 – 11:37 am

In July of 1977 I discovered my roommate stealing my tip money and moved to a SRO room on West 10th Street and 5th Avenue. A bed and four walls cost $44/week. I was making about $200 at the restaurant and after work I took the subway from 60th and Lex to the Astor Place. [...]

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Faster Than Hell

December 7, 2011 – 8:59 am

Back in 1984 a Paris friend bought a fiendishly fast KZ 1100 cc bike. Our connection was drugs. One evening we were sitting at La Savanne, an African bar serving the last dregs of the night. Cocaine and Heroin. On night sitting at an African transvestite after-hour bar in Les Halles, le Savanne, Francois dangled [...]

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Better Than The Louvre

December 5, 2011 – 6:08 am

Helmut Newton – Genuis

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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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