Hoppe on the Thometz’s
Curt Hoppe premiered his Downtown Portraits this week at Howl! Gallery in the East Village and Bernarducci Gallery in Chelsea culminating nine years of work on 24 painstakingly, even painful, painted photorealist portraits in the grand manner and scale (94×70) usually reserved for European aristocracy. Painful as for a considerable amount of the time he […]
Keef
1 of 7 books I love. Maiko Y. Satoh has “challenged” me to post a book a day for a week with the expectable and commendable criteria. It only needs be loved. Bookselling was my vocation for 45 years. I thought I’d share some books by people I’ve loved in the course of my career.I’ll […]
“My body may be here but my mind’s long gone with the Igbo.”
quote by Paule Marshall 2 of 7 books I love. This is my Igbo father inscribing a benediction in his book on our subject 9 days before mine, Life Turns Man Up and Down, was published. We hadn’t met until I’d written but not yet published and I blame editorial incompetence for LTMUAD’s not benefiting […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library