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Better Than The Louvre

February 8, 2024 – 6:08 am

Helmut Newton – Genuis

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 1, 2023 – 6:56 pm

Flowers are exploding all across the East Village community gardens. The temperature is in the 90s. The air in our apartment has no oxygen. The streets only have a little more. Alice and I have lived together for the last month. I haven’t worked a day. Alice is heading home to West Virginia for Labor […]

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THE TEN TOP THINGS TO DO IN PARIS

April 19, 2022 – 11:36 am

Set fire to a historical cathedral. Get entombed in the catacombs Die of boredom waiting in line for the Louvre. Pay a wanker in a beret to paint an unflattering caricature of you. Surrender to an invading force without shot being fired. Protest the rigors of a thirty -hour work wee. Enjoy local delicacies like […]

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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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