I went to the opening of Paul Himmel’s show at the Keith de Lellis Gallery last night. It would have been Paul’s 94th birthday, so the opening became a tribute. Without getting maudlin here, let’s just say he is remembered fondly. But the best tribute is his own work. He had an amazing eye (to [...]
I recently posted a time-lapse movie of how the graffiti on a particular wall in Soho has evolved over time. These are each of the individual pieces of graffiti (most of them, anyway) that have been added to that wall over the last eight months.
I’d love to be able to give credit to each of [...]
I’ve been taking a picture every day or so of one particular wall on Greene St to make a time-lapse movie of how the graffiti on that wall evolves over time. I’d like to think of it as a documentary of a sort of collectively created art project — lots of different contributions continually added [...]
We trying our best to buy a place up in Morningside Heights. We love the neighborhood — the Hungarian Pastry Shop, Tom’s Restaurant, Le Monde, Columbia, St John the Divine, the Westside Market. The list could keep going… Claire went to grad school up there, and was living there when we met. But beyond just [...]
lucy in her “princess shirt dress”, originally uploaded by same_same.
Philippe, my father-in-law collects keys. He can’t tell you why exactly he started, but just that he was drawn to them. He moved to New York City in 1946, and has been collecting them ever since.
The collection takes up an entire wall in the apartment — he now has more than 400 of them. Some [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about falling from buildings. It’s a problem associated, I suppose, with living in a city with a lot of tall buildings around.
But there seem to be more than our share of incidents recently. Earlier this month, a guy working construction on a new Trump building in Soho [...]