As luck would have it, my friend, college roommate and the best man at my wedding, Tim O’Toole, lives in London, and a more generous and better informed guide would be hard to imagine. On Sunday he and I visited the Tate Modern on the South Bank. Frankly, I was disappointed. I had heard that …
I am pretty thrilled to have won at auction on eBay copies of four prints by James Gillray, the great British satirical artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Gillray had a sharp pen and a merciless and brilliantly comic sensibility that must have reduced the targets of satire to tears and rage. …
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York has found a compelling way to attract visitors to its exhibit Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art. Outside its space at 11 East 52nd Street, it has mounted a large monitor, which shows a loop of a 16 mm film called “Consumer Art”, made in the seventies by the …
. . . but some artist-like bloke named Peter Tunney is displaying a dozen or so of his paintings n empty retail space at Fifth and 52nd. Most of them seem entirely too derivative and entirely too calculated to shock, not excepting the one above. But I like it.
On Labor Day, Ginny and I coerced Molly and Cara to go down to the South Street Seaport and take a water taxi around New York harbor and catch the four waterfalls that were installed by artist Olafur Eliasson. Well, I don’t know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we saw them at their …
The Montana cabin where Theodore Kaczynski was captured is included in an exhibit on the history of the FBI currently mounted at Washington’s Newseum. In a hand-written letter to the US Court of Appeals which can be viewed at The Smoking Gun, the infamous Unabomber, whose bombs killed three people and injured 23 others, objected …
Thanks to my good friend Simon Monroe, the elusive, enigmatic illustrator who did the caricature of me that will henceforth make its home on this site’s blog page. My friend Ken Smith, a man who knows from illustrators, complimented the drawing by saying that it was “Sort of Mencken in spirit, and it sets off …
WordPress Publisher Blog, widely considered to be the gold standard of publishing software, recently cited the excellent design of the website A Way to Garden (awaytogarden.com). The website, which is written and operated by Margaret Roach, was designed by my friend Ken Smith, who also designed this site. Way to go Ken!
The Seattle bullpen at Shea Stadium, Tuesday June 24, around 8 PM
Henri Bendel’s on Fifth Avenue, Monday, June 16th, arund 9:30 AM.