I’m not one of those New Yorkers who reminisces nostalgically about the days of depravity of the old Times Square or what The Bowery used to be when CBGB’s emerged as the bastion for punk and new wavers along a strip where crime and homelessness were the two main tenants.
With CB’s gone less than two […]
I met Berenice Szurely (visiting from Paris) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 3:30 on this Tuesday in April. She had seen plenty of Courbet’s work in her native country, but this was the first major retrospective here in thirty years.
Any photographer, I think, would appreciate Courbet’s enhanced realism, his use of warm bathing […]
Last month I shot the Whitney Biennial for The Wall Street Journal. Expansive, diverse, thought-provoking…much of what you would hope at that level. I’m not all that in-tune with what’s going on critically in the modern art scene; I explore the visual impact first, then maybe probe deeper into context and meaning. On assignment again […]