Karen Knorr is an American photographer living in London who was born in Germany, grew up in Puerto Rico and went to art school in Paris and London. Info via The New York Times.
Visual Excellence: The Photography of Karen Knorr. Image via The New York Times.
The Outstanding curator Julia Trotta at her, now-defunct, gallery, Excellently known as Fake Estate, as seen in the House and Home section of The New York Times.
The Outstanding dealer Julia Trotta at her, now-defunct, Fake Estate gallery. Image via Joyce Dopkeen for The New York Times.
Presented via The New York Times, The Six Degress of Andy Cohen, written by Susan Dominus.
Mr. Excellence: Bravo TV's Andy Cohen. Image via Michael Nagle for The New York Times via The New York Times.
From The New York Times: “In granting bail, Judge Howard Riddle ordered that Mr. Assange appear again in court on Jan. 11. He also said that between then and now he must reside at Ellingham Hall, a Georgian mansion in Bungay, in eastern England, owned by Vaughan Smith, the founder of a club for journalists. Mr. Assange must spend every night at the mansion and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, the judge said.” Read full report HERE.
The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived at court inside a prison van with heavily tinted windows on Tuesday in London. Image via The New York Times via Oli Scarff/Getty Images.
Jimi Hendrix at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 1968. Image via Jeffrey Scales via The New York Times. © Jeffrey Scales/HSP Archiv.
Applauding the Los Angeles Opera‘s first presentation of Wagner’s The Ring Cycle. “The Los Angeles Opera is mounting its first “Ring” cycle, a fascinating and complex production of Richard Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen” by the German artist and director Achim Freyer, who has soaked the stage with symbols in a visual version of the work’s leitmotifs. The third of three cycles, being performed here at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, ends on Saturday,” advises The New York Times.
Operatic Excellence: Beau Gibson as Froh in Wagner's "Rheingold" in Los Angeles. Image via Stephanie Diani for The New York Time.
We always listen to, and heed, what Outstandingly Excellent art critic Linda Yablonsky has to say (ex close friends in common, and the like). Linda’s now at Art Basel 41, June 16 through June 20, 2010, in Basel, Switzerland, and she’s reporting on that high-profile scene for T, The New York Times Style Magazine. What’s Linda seen and heard and liked, so far? Please click HERE.
Linda recommends Sergio Prego’s sculpture, “Ikurrina Quarter,” at Art Unlimited. Sebastien Bozon for Agence France-Presse/Getty Images via The New York Times.
“There are still people who want to criminalize homosexuality one way or another, and I thought it might useful if more heterosexual men admitted that they are a little bit gay, as is everyone, and that homosexuality is a form of love and not just sex.” —Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times, June 6th, 2010
In a secretly swift and Outstandingly Excellent move that has caused the cancellation of the Christie’s auction, which was previously scheduled to take place in London on September 15, 2010, fashionable heiress and art-loving socialite Daphne Guinness has purchased the entire collection of 90 outfits and 28 photographs of legendary style icon Isabella Blow. “It’s Issy — it’s her DNA — it should not be scattered to the four winds,” Ms. Guinness told the equally legendary and stylish journalist Suzy Menkes of The International Herald Tribune via The New York Times. “I want it to remain as a monument.” Who could dare to disagree?
Mirror, mirror on the wall: Heiress and fashionable Socialite Daphne Guiness. Image via the Daphne Guinness fan page on Facebook.
Rereading, for sheer, delicious, amusing, enjoyment and, more importantly, of course, for instructional, inspirational purposes, The Users, the still-relevant roman à clé by Her Excellency Joyce Haber, former journalist at The Los Angeles Times: Said The New York Times upon her death: “Miss Haber retired as a columnist to write “The Users” (Delacorte, 1976), a best-selling novel. Its passages on the exploits of 70 real and fictional Hollywood characters disturbed even some of her friends and sources.”
Excellent (re)reading: The Users, author, and former Los Angeles Times columnist, Joyce Haber's Outstanding 1976 Hollywood roman à clé.
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