Bye Bo, Bye Yves…
June 3, 2008
Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’
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Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’
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It’s the last day for Martin Puryear at MOMA. If you’re in NYC take a little extra time for lunch and head to 53rd Street for a look at this seminal artist’s wood hewn sculptures, work that invites the viewer to simply bask in its sheer beauty of craftsmanship, or ponder its myriad subtextual gradations….
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Funny thing about that Broadway strike—I thought the reduced slate of plays and musicals might grant me a reprieve from the monstrous crowds clogging Times Square’s streets, Sephora, the Virgin Megastore and the sidewalk below MTV’s studios in the Minskoff Building. Didn’t happen, so I sucked up the inconvenience, dodging the starry-eyed out of towners…
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Unlike Spain, France or China, there seems to be no national physical “type” in Belgium. Notions of Hercule Poirot vanish when presented with varietal faces that range from pale Flemish damsels to the deep dark shades of Congo ancestry. Of course, the presence of tourists confuse the whole mess, turning the tiny city of Brussels…
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