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Echoing the timing of Darby Crash dying the day before the shocking murder of John Lennon, author Mark Ehrman died from a longterm illness the day before David Bowie’s passing earlier this month. I barely knew Mark Ehrman but he wrote an article about me that proved quite critical in my personal and professional development.…

Another “friend” on FaceBook has a maudlin rant about leaving FaceBook, here is his phone number, none of you are real unless you contact him the old fashioned way, even though phones are not face to face. I bet in 1909 there was some guy who pulled out the cord and announced he was sick…

Remember that one gallery? They call it that because they can’t remember. And in a way they don’t want to remember. They remember who showed there, they rattle off the names and if you were there you remember those shows and probably which pieces sold, if anything did, and there was that one show you…

I had an uber driver today who was a rabbi. I knew it was going to be a unique ride because when the app announced the driver it was my very first “Shmuel”. I’ve had lots of Hectors and a few Fernandos and plenty of Brandons but this was a unique name among the roster.…

Ellsworth Kelly posing at his Gemini GEL opening, August, 2001. Ellsworth Kelly died Sunday. His death came just a few days short of making it to 2016 but the math will be accurate when you look at the dates on the museum placard next to his painting. His unique, groundbreaking art is owned by almost…

Uncle Teddy died this morning. He rotted away near the end but we were all most shocked that he lived this long. But he really did live, like a fire in a dry forest on an endless night, he roared in all directions. This guy had a native intellect that defied high school, which he…