Downtick: 80’s Painting

What in heaven's earth is Jeff Koons thinking with regard to his new series of paintings aside from money? They are without doubt the most awful crop of crap to emerge from the studio of a leading light of contemporary art since...there is no comparison to be made, as...

Bottino; :Bot; Glass

From 1986 to the summer of 1999 Borocco Restaurant (below Canal on West Broadway) was a favorite art world hang out in the heyday of the Mary Boone-Schnabel-Fischl-Salle-Basquiat, rein of power. A time forever, memorably etched upon the minds of those that caught a...

My Dinner (Eavesdropping) With Gagosian

OK. So I didn't actually have dinner with him, he sat at a table behind me; but, I recognized that unmistakable close cropped gray buzz cut. We were back to back in the restaurant. As the meal progressed and in proportion to my imbibing, I began to listen more and...