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OH, THE AUGURY! Part of the main front of the Supreme Court Building collapsed, only a few minutes ago. CNN reports that Washingtonians themselves aren't too worried.A group of students from Columbus, Ohio, pocketed some of the fragments as souvenirs,...

I've displayed a severely limited color spectrum on this site lately, and I'm sorry that this shot isn't much of a stretch from those black and white images sitting just below it. But I think that it does manage...

Steve Greenfield, upon his release from arrest during the 2004 Republican National Convention It's time more people realized who she really is, and rejected the impressive, carefully-managed hype which disguises the reality. You don't even have to consider yourself...

I just came across this picture of a very come-hither-ish Montgomery Clift while looking through an email from Phaidon Press. It's from a new photography book, "Stanley Kubrick: Drama and Shadows," a collection of images captured by the film...

okay, I saw these three in L.A., but they'll have to do for now If you're in Miami next week for the art fairs* we may bump into each other, that is, if I can be pried out of...

untitled (foam track) 2005...

Maybe it's the times, maybe it's the season, but there is a lot of fun and a lot of heart to be found in the Chelsea gallery blocks these days. The latest example is the group exhibition which opened...

waiting for a copy You have five more days to join in what will surely be remembered as one of the strangest and most delightful gallery experiences of the season, Gelitin's performance/installation at Leo Koenig on West 23rd Street....

Hyatt Regency is now Hyatt Imperial We learned from Paul Kidd this morning that the trappings and fears which go with our imperial presidency have now been extended to the president's cabinet, specifically to our bloody secretary of war....

- this time apparently in spite of himself, since this shooting star reporter certainly hasn't been doing much investigating lately. Reuters reports that Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, has disclosed to the special prosecutor that the White House had told...

Josephine Meckseper Shelf #31 2005 mixed media on metal shelf 23.75" x 60" x 14" [large detail of installation] Josephine Meckseper's show at Elizabeth Dee was the highlight of a Chelsea afternoon on Saturday, and I hadn't even prepped....

I mean, what are they going to say? Has anybody not noticed that the man frequently described as the President of the United States addresses his constituents only inside military bases or, if anywhere else, only in the company...

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you can no longer expect more from Target. Barry just sent me an email with a link to this story reporting essentially that the Target corporation will refuse to fill certain prescriptions because to do so would be both immoral...

the money shot But, continuing the sex metaphor, getting there was at least half the fun. Last Sunday Barry and I went to the top of the old RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. We went because we wanted to...

Barry and I joined a large gathering of some of Bill Bartman's friends in the Friends meeting house off Stuyvesant Park on Saturday. It was a beautiful fall afternoon. There were wonderful words, much good cheer, barely-suppressed tears, lots...

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Cynthia Madansky P.S.A. #8 2005 DVD [large detail of still from video projection] Cynthia Madansky P.S.A. #2 2005 DVD [large detail of still from video projection] Even in a world which includes so many other galleries showing new work...

dangerous art I still can't quite get my mind around this story, although I first heard the particulars much earlier today: It's essentially the tale of an owner of an art gallery asking the police to get rid of...

these two are rare exceptions to the classic, and ubiquitous, wooden barrel versions...

especially if he's part of a "Drive Out the Bush Regime" demo marching up 8th Avenue this afternoon led by some of the youngest revolutionaries I've ever seen the youth in question looking particularly endearing stopped by a flat...