Mixed on paper 2025

 

Mixed on paper 2025

 

Henry Jaglom 1938-2025

 

June Leaf

 I can easily recommend the large June Leaf retrospective now on at the Grey Art Gallery in its new home in the East Village. I am especially impressed by her sculptures mostly figurative that are small and move through their spaces like acrobats or circus performers and her strange constructions of made from tossed about pieces of junk that she turns into wonderful contraptions and mysterious machines. She also did lots of paintings and some of them are colorful dense and rich, the same for her drawings. But its her sculptures that naturally speak to me. Very nicely installed and admission is free, so what's not to like?

Claudia Cardinale 1938-2025

 

The Whitney and the art also the guards and the chelsea market

 The Whitney show "Sixties Surreal" is worth a look because of the wide range of artists shown, many of whom I had never heard of, so that alone makes it worth seeing. As usual with these kind of exhibits some of the work left me cold and some were surprising and good. I went yesterday, the last day for member's preview so it was not crowded and we had lots of room to roam. Also as usual with these pointed shows, the curators try to cover a lot of ground and sometimes the ground was wet and soggy with their choices and views. There's a lot of political art hey its the sixties man and protest was everywhere. The odd thing that me and my friend Dina noticed well more than noticed was the over friendliness of some of the guards. Is this a new thing? Two guards, a man and woman, made conversation with us over many things including some of the art and their talking to us got a little weary after 10 minutes or so. They were both nice for sure, but they wouldn't let us go, actually the young man was sweet pleasant and handsome , even though he thought Jules Verne was a woman and the woman guard got pretty political about certain things. We were both amazed at this kind of encounter, as I have never had long talks with museum guards, and afterwards I thought maybe this was this a new thing that the museum is trying? Get to know your local museum guards and to make them more human or maybe they were just bored which I could certainly understand. We both felt a little uncomfortable. I knew so many of the artists shown on a personal level that Dina said I should write a book since I had many stories about them that I told her as we went from art work to art work. After we went over to the Chelsea Market, which neither of us have ever been to, and I won't be returning for another visit anytime soon, probably never. It was jam packed with tourists, noisy and hot and it was not easy to find a place to sit and eat. I felt like I was in Atlantic City or Las Vegas. The sandwich that we shared was ok, the waitress was sweet and attentive and the coffee was luke warm, but the ice cold water was very welcomed.

Tusi

 

John McQueen 1943-2025

 

Pat Crowley 1933-2025

 

Robert Redford 1936-2025

 

Robert Grosvenor 1937-2025

I am sad to learn today of the passing of an old pal of mine Robert Grosvenor. I knew him in the early 70's but haven't kept in touch with him for all these intervening years. My bad. I thought highly of him, and loved to hang out with him, as we were so different, but he loved my art and I felt the same about his work. He was a nice drinker and there were many nights of drinking at max's and other downtown bars. He wanted to trade pieces but I told him his work was too big for me to own, he said he had smaller works, but I didn't follow through, again my bad. His large works were impressive and one drunken night I guess in some bar, he did a doodle like drawing on a paper place mat, and I asked him if I could have it, he said sure, and here it is after all these years stained I like to think of our friendship. I once brought him and a few other artist friends with me to a party at Philip and Dorothy Pearlstein I remember him and the others being so shy around Philip and I later asked why so quiet. They were just overwhelmed by being in his presence. Me I was laughing and carrying on with Philip and Dorothy. That was me. So many memories of this fine dear man. This hurts.

Polly Holliday 1937-2025

 

New York Photos

 Finally got a new phone and I can once again take photos with it. I spent the afternoon at the Moma and here are some photos from the visit. Midtown of course was jumping with lots of people. 

Is He Dead Yet? 2025

 

Rosalyn Drexler 1923-2025

My relationship with her goes back to my teen years (I was 17) when I saw her zany "home movies" off off broadway and loved it. Also when a late teen I would go to the Judson church to see the great plays and musicals that they became famous for and one night she was there in front of me as we we going up the stairs to see a play She was wearing a string like dress or weave that got caught on my ring she had no idea that she was dragging me up the stairs and I finally got untangled. Flash forward several years, later when I was at at a dinner party with her and we all chuckled over my teen story. Sorry to hear of her passing.

Giorgio Armani 1934-2025

 

Is He Dead Yet?

 

Graham Greene 1952-2025

 

Is He Dead Yet?