Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Art

Linda Solomon’s Extraordinary Book of Intimate Aretha Franklin Photographs is the Holiday Gift of the Year

Linda Solomon has been a journalist and photographer in Detroit her whole life. She knows all about celebrities. Her sister our pal Jill Rappaport,...

Local L.A.: Hip Melrose Ave adds Ben Soleimani’s Flagship Showroom in West Hollywood

Hollywood: Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood is quickly becoming ‘the Rodeo Drive’/’Bond Street’ of Weho. The famed restaurant, Craig’s, is the top destination spot...

Joni Mitchell Releases “Morning Glory on the Vine,” Previously Private 1971 Book of Sensational Paintings, Drawings, Lyrics

The depth and breadth of Joni Mitchell's work extends far beyond her music, which is something in itself. But Joni is also a visual...

Shocker! Famed NYC Art Dealer Mary Boone Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Fraud

Famed NYC art dealer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax fraud. If you have lived in New York or the...

Exclusive: Famed Artist and Director Julian Schnabel Marries for a Third Time, to Interior Designer-Film Editor Louise Kugelberg

On the Golden Globes red carpet yesterday afternoon, Julian Schnabel gave me some important personal news. This week he married for the third time,...

Peter Simon, 71, Famed Martha’s Vineyard Photographer and Brother of Carly Simon, Passes Away

Back on August 10th, I wrote about Peter Simon getting into a kerfuffle with Bill Murray on Martha's Vineyard. The peripatetic photographer was on...

Famed NY Art Dealer Mary Boone Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns One Year After Scamming Alec Baldwin in Painting Switch

Wow. It's big news in the New York and worldwide high end art world. Mary Boone, one of the great, famous art dealers, has pleaded...

L.A. Art Dealer Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen to Donate Plucked Body Hair: “Funny the things a camera will make a person do”

EXCLUSIVE Christy Cones became an overnight celebrity last night courtesy of Sacha Baron Cohen. She was hoodwinked by the man who is sometimes Borat...