Category Archives: Art

Beauty as a Beast

March 15, 2023 – 7:58 am

Lady Caroline Blackwood “A mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers.” Robert Lowell husband/poet

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER – ON SALE

December 18, 2022 – 9:48 pm

FAMOUS FOR NEVER A STORY OF FAME AND MISFORTUNE BY PETER NOLAN SMITH Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. – James Steele MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2022 In the 1970s city politicians launched countless projects to stem the tide of ‘white flight’. None of the doomed programs achieved their goals and the population of the Lower East […]

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Basquiat Drawing

July 29, 2022 – 12:04 am

On a July evening in 1988 I exited from my apartment to get beer from the bodega. Young people hurried to 10th Street bars in expectation of romance or a phone number to call. The men wore khakis and blue button down shirts and the women wore clothes worth a week’s salary. They shouted out […]

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Poop Pop Art

June 13, 2022 – 4:01 pm

Last week I found this small painting on South Oxford Street near the fort Greene Observatory. My landlord made a face upon seeing ‘Poop’ and I said, “I have a plan.” I’ve always loved the sublime nihilism of Duchamp’s toilet seat and Piero Manzoni’s ‘Shit in a Can’, but felt both works were missing ‘je […]

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# 4 Nude / Kurt Kauper

April 3, 2022 – 1:53 pm

The most famous photo of Bobby Orr was of his scoring the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Championship against the St. Louis Blues. The immortal moment has also been immortalized in a statue gracing the entrance to the TD Garden in Boston, however an artist friend had told me about the painter Kurt […]

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