Day 5 Cold and gray this morning. In a Madison Avenue diner, I try to get warm, but the tea I order is so hot it’s undrinkable. Oh well. I’ll…
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Day 9 New York feels like one big party this Friday morning. It’s the weekend of all the contemporary art fairs (Armory, Scope, Volta, Independent) and I’m heading to Chelsea to…
Day 10 Today I’m meeting Larry Miller in one of those tower buildings that house so many treasures. The doorman calls me “hon” and tells me the gallery is on the third…
Moscow has grown increasingly enamored of its Stalinist past. Hence the idea for this exhibition, which seems straight out of a socialist realist propagandist’s wet dream. Vladislav Mikosha (1909 –…
1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? I began collecting 12 years ago. The first photograph that I purchased was a vintage…
1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? I started around 1986. But I was not really serious about it then. Mainly I…
Taking advantage of the opening of the AIPAD photography show yesterday afternoon in New York, La Lettre presents nine New York art collectors with various backgrounds. Stephen Perloff asked the…
1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? Casually, compulsively, and mostly at flea markets, where I bought cartes de visite portraits, real-photo…
1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? My parents would bring me to MOMA when I was a kid and I would…