The ‘Master of Ceremonies’ is also a Master of Imagery. Joel Grey-consummate New Yorker, “Cabaret” scary-man, and one-time “Law and Order” serial killer-is becoming better known these days as a distinct photographer. An exhibit of his mobile-phone photographs–recently published in … Read More
A couple weeks ago we showed “Escargot” in boxing mode at 77 Warren. Here’s some of his sucker-punch imagery: www.alexisdahan.com FRONT ROW AND SOLO: Anna Wintour, how she’d like it to be, always.
Rhode Island School of Design professor Fritz Drury’s paintings fool with the natural order. They’re the naked truth. Trust us: Go to his website, www.fritzdrury.com, and check out the eerie, gorgeous, painterly and realistic, sad world that Drury creates on … Read More
The Waverly Inn’s Secret Shutterbug By night, Roger Jazilek can be found behind the bar at The Waverly Inn. He’s the debonair tender with the slicked-back white hair, who looks as if he might have been recruited from the Overlook … Read More
Deejay and man-about-town Peter Makebish makes the big leap into art curator mode with the lithe of a panther at the Bowery’s not-so Anonymous Gallery. Late week a “veritable who’s who” of the art and nightclub worlds landed upon the … Read More
Separated-at-Birth Book Smokes! In the ’60s and ’70s, Jim Marshall took photographs of many of the most iconic images of the music scene’s demigods, from Jim Morrison to Johnny Cash. Timothy White has done the same with a subsequent generation … Read More
A visual nod to HBO’s ‘Treme’… We hope at some point the makers of ‘Treme’ include a shot of this sign, spotted in the Faubourg Marigny section of New Orleans, off the French Quarter. We also hope that they kill … Read More
The King of Cool’s ‘Green Rat’ On Display In Atlanta Steve McQueen’s 1957 Jaguar–a rare XK-SS roadster that the King of Cool affectionately dubbed “The Green Rat”–will go on display at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art as part of its … Read More
David Bailey’s Classic Snaps Make the Scene at Bonhams, London He practically invented Swinging London, married Catherine Deneuve and inspired the movie Blow Up all before his 30th birthday. Few figures personify the coolest scenes of the ’60s like British … Read More
The genius of the ailing, great Dennis Hopper revealed in new art-and-photo tome. Dennis Hopper’s seminal work as an actor and director is well known, but he’s also an accomplished painter, photographer, and art collector whose other talents inform his … Read More
