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 […]
Of Didion
3 of 7 books I love. Others have described the Madison Avenue Bookshop, where I worked part-time from 1975 to 1992, as a salon out of Stendahl, Maupassant, or Proust. I’d have said Fitzgerald, with copious doses of John O’Hara – a copious Fitzgerald with better dialogue. A bastion of the East Coast establishment, in […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library