"Godmother of Punk" Patti Smith didn't go to Pratt. She didn't have the money and, she says, she was "too erratic a student" to get past the admissions office. That didn't stop her, however, from enthusiastically accepting an award from the art and design school Thursday night at the Pratt Legends 2009 gala (click for pics). Karim Rashid, Richard Meier, Stefan Sagmeister, Christo...
Photographer Christophe von Hohenberg revisited a seminal moment of the late '80s on Thursday during a signing and Q&A at Clic Gallery for his 2006 book, "Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died," that chronicled the artist's memorial back in 1987. Von Hohenberg says he was actually hired by Vanity Fair to "photograph who was wearing miniskirts at Andy's memorial." As it happened,...
A show at The Henry Art Gallery of Robert Mapplethorpe's Polaroids consists of 90 images, taken when Mapplethorpe first became enamored with photography.
Jim Carroll died of a heart attack Friday in Manhattan at age 60. James Dennis Carroll, the son of a bar owner, spent his childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he attended Roman Catholic schools. After the family moved to Inwood, at the northern end of Manhattan, he won a basketball scholarship to Trinity. There he discovered a love of writing and began spending time at the St. Mark’s...
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. On the grand stage that is Bond Street down in Noho, there resides a cast of glittering dancers who, for the past decade, have watched over the street below from a perch at 24 Bond. This spring, they were joined by a new crew of acrobats, a pillar of gravity-defying beasts...
"It's just been announced that 'Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form', the first ever exhibition of a modern artist in the gallery where - in addition to David - Michelangelo's unfinished Prisoners and Saint Matthew hold the stage, is to be extended by popular demand until January 2010. Apparently it has been a huge success since opening this May."...
"... he blew up that section of the article, ejaculated on the copy and displayed it at an art show in Los Angeles." Dash Snow, dead of a drug overdose, at 27. His sadness and his money and his drugs were a powerful dynamic, said Jack Walls, a close friend of Mr. Snow’s who is a former lover of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe: the sadness was abetted by the drugs, the drugs abetted...
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