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Up the River
Deep into Our Hearts of Darkness
By: - Apr 29th, 2015Pushing each other up river deep into the cave of horrific memories. Fangs ripping at the flesh of self.
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Time and Tide
Erosion of More than Beaches
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Shocking erosion of the beaches. Brutal winter storms getting ever worse. Dance of the damned oblivious to decline and fall of life as we know it.
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Off Season
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A now annual early spring visit to Provincetown. Walking the narrow streets of the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape.
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Murder Building
University Road Harvard Square
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Rents were cheap in The Murder Building a sprawling complex for artists and musicians on University Road in Harvard Square.
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Smarts
Older Not Always Wiser
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Reflecting on mistakes of youth. Laments of kids nowah days. Truth is we were not better.. Takes time to know that.
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Sandbar Inn
AWeek on the Beach
By: - Apr 27th, 2015A vow of a week on the beach each spring and fall. Time to read and write.
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Oceans
Primal Tides Surging Within Us
By: - Apr 27th, 2015On stubby fins, eventual limbs, sea creatures crawled onto dry land. The ocean still pulses within us as warm saline blood. It defines a primal urge to return to the deep revealed in the joy on her face.
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Apathy
Out of the Mouths of Babes
By: - Apr 26th, 2015My freshman chemistry lab partner at Brandeis later blew up a bank as a Weatherperson. Abbie Hoffman was a senior when I was a freshman. I had coffee with Angela Davis in the snack bar. We marched and protested. Memories of radical 1960s failed to impress my college students. Not interested in changing the world they just wanted jobs and the good life.
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Mad Max
Oh My Canada
By: - Apr 26th, 2015The visiting curator for Canada was not quite up to a night on the town.
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Tampa
Down Home with James Brown
By: - Apr 26th, 2015On the way to New Orleans decades ago took a detour to visit Phil Bleeth and formar Moroccan model Corinna. She was about to give birth to child model, daytime soap star and later Baywatch Babe Jasmine Bleeth. The four of us caught James Brown in a Tampa basketball court.
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Max's Kansas City
Steak, Lobester, Chic Peas and Stars
By: - Apr 26th, 2015Restauranteur Mickey Ruskin settled tabs by swapping for art with Andy Warhol and other art stars of the Pop era in New York. During happy hour for the price of a nursed glass of wine starving artists survived on chicken wings. Sticking around to catch the glam floor show.
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Consigliore
Mentor and Friend
By: - Apr 26th, 2015During ongoing dialogues about art, food, music, history, philosophy and literature my friend and consigliore Robert Henriquez brings a lot to the table. During the off season there is an annual seminar entailing intensive research and discussion.
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Guns
Boys and Their Toys
By: - Apr 26th, 2015Every boy needs a gun. Bang bang. Not just one would do, like Tom Mix. I needed double six shooters like my hero Hopalong Cassidy.
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Fear Eats Itself
Gnawing at Memory
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Trapped in the wild an animal will gnaw at and amputate it leg in order to regain its freedom. Is it any different from the artist struggling for liberation from restive memory?
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Birthday
Twilight of the Don
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Under my roof he would proclaim laying down the law. Losing power over a family in conflict during the last days of the Don.
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Lotus
Benignly Resisting Authority
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Breaking away from repression she spent several years in the Orient. Returning home there was a harrowing conflict during a holiday dinner.
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Summer of Love
Rescue of a Runaway
By: - Apr 25th, 2015During the Summer of Love Scott McKenzie sang "If you're going to San Francisco wear some flowers in your hair." In the Lower East Side we rescued a Flower Child from the reality of an escape from suburbia.
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Fence
Back Yard Barbecue
By: - Apr 25th, 2015The landlord Mr. Padziba provided a delivery of old doors. With my pal Gerry we created a fence enclosing the patio behind my storefront in the Lower East Side.
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Harry Bikes
Slandered by Rolling Stone
By: - Apr 25th, 2015It was a setup. Bill Cardoso sent his roommate David Felton to interview me about Mel Lyman and his Fort Hill gang of zealots. In the Rolling Stone cover story Felton wrote about me as an ersatz political thug and Lyman foe dubbed Harry Bikes.
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Making Art
Risking the Human Toll
By: - Apr 13th, 2015This morning listening to an interview to an interview on art,. criticism and the relative values of art education. Dark introspection for what it's worth over morning coffee. Tennessee Williams, Jackson Pollock and Francis Bacon, to name a few, died for their sins. As John Patrick Shanley told me when I asked "Nothing is off limits."
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Easter
Reluctant Matchmaker
By: - Apr 13th, 2015Everyone loved Suzie now gone these many years. Cardoso insisted that I make the introduction. They married not long after. My fault.
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Beauty of the Beast
Negotiating the Labyrinth of Self
By: - Apr 13th, 2015Mythology of the Minotaur the beast that must be fed human sacrifices. The artist in the labyrinth looking for self and a way to unwind its thread.
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Killing Time
On the Bridge
By: - Apr 11th, 2015On the bridge in literal transition. Dropped my watch into the frozen Charles River.
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Out of the Blue
An Afternoon with Dennis Hopper
By: - Apr 08th, 2015Justin Freed was screening a low budget Canadian film Out of the Blue at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. There were half hour interviews set up with the star and last minute director Dennis Hopper. Making the most of my slot he kept leaving to do more blow.
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Sisyphus Now
Rock Climbing
By: - Apr 07th, 2015Existential metaphor for the cycle of life. Pushing the boulder up the hill.. Letting it roll down, Over and over. Different metaphor for a life ordinary but lived.
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