On any day or evening at Fanelli’s in Soho, you’re likely to find a cross-section of Europeans curious to see what one of New York City’s oldest taverns is all about. It’s written up in most of the guide books; the old-world charm and simplicity of the space woos in a steady flow of regulars […]
New York photographer Gail Albert Halaban is working on a fine art project called Out My Window, a concept which, in its most basic description, finds her shooting out of one window into another window. These are environmental portraits with an emphasis on the surrounding view, either looking out from, or looking into, the residence […]
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 […]