May | 2011 | Boston Studio

Ex-girlfriends came to me with icebox doors and toilet covers. If he had done tattoos, they would have been amputating themselves. -Larry Gagosian (on the rush of people presenting works to sell directly after Basquiat’s death)

Picture above is “Third Eye,” a late work from Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol, that more than doubled its upper estimate and sold for $7,026,500 at Phillips de Pury & Company last Thursday.… Continue reading →

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Monthly Archive: May, 2011

A Letter from Kenneth Koch to Larry Rivers on getting married…

Google Portraits Gallery

My Name in Lights (Courtesy of Baldessari)

Now that the rapture is upon us, I feel I should have aimed higher all those times I said, God please let me finish this book before the end of the world.

Three Times the Moon (Crying Outside a Casino): Sketchbook Today

More Google Portraits

A Complete History of American Poetry (Apples and Plums): Sketchbook Today

More Google Portraits

Great shot of Jasper Johns

Tiaras and Duct Tape (The Further Adventures of Cross-Dressing Man): Sketchbook Today

Reading: Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard

You can’t leave. You’re posing for a painting I’m doing. -Larry Rivers

Ex-girlfriends came to me with icebox doors and toilet covers. If he had done tattoos, they would have been amputating themselves. -Larry Gagosian (on the rush of people presenting works to sell directly after Basquiat’s death)

Rotary Dial Photocopier

Life comes in a thousand shades of grey, and everyone except madmen thinks what they do is reasonable, and maybe even the madmen do too. -Travis McGee (via John D. MacDonald) in A Deadly Shade of Gold

Drinking with Miss America: Sketchbook Today

Think I just completed a solid draft of my first novel. As they say in the big leagues, beware the Eids of May.

Campaign Promises: Sketchbook Today

Lost and Found: Searching for Saint Tomato

Reading: Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald

Visual Acuity Test (from Text Messages)

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