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This week I went to see Face Addict at the ICA.  Don’t be fooled by the picture of Warhol on the ICA page, this is not another raking over of his history or legacy - far from it: he is barely mentioned and when he is it’s tangentially.  It’s actually a the very personal story of the Swiss-Italian

Former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell teamed up with acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on The Black List, a series of "living portraits" conceived by Mitchell as an "answer to the persistent taint that western culture has applied to the word "black.'" (Volume

The Palm Springs Art Museum is setting up to host a major exhibit of Keith Haring’s work from the Rubel Family Collection in Miami. The work to be exhibited was produced largely after the period of his early mural and graffiti art.

Staring Jean Michel Basquiat and co produced and written by Glenn O’ Brien, I’d say great documentation of the early 80’s New York art scene and an all around interesting time period. For more info on this film check the Downtown 81 official website.

I was honored to be invited by Internationally renown artist/illustrator/toy designer Gus Fink to join him and share a booth at Folk Fest 2008 in Atlanta. That would be great news, exept another if my finances were as unlimited as some believe my creativity is. But alas, I need to make some loot.

I just finished watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a movie about the former editor of Elle magazine who was paralyzed by a massive stroke at the tender age of 42. It was such an amazing film, so luminous and unexpected, that I was curious about what other projects director Julian Schnabel might be currently involved in.

Sunrise In SoHo was a surprise exhibition held last Sunday at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery. Invitations were only mailed to a select few collectors, and those in attendance were treated to a rare experience in modern art. Artist TMNK, arrived at 6:00 am, and 15 minutes later the front of the gallery was wrapped in modern art, be elusive street artist Nobody.

Refinery on Flickr.

The Music business has been very good to my “mens and them” so they came through to pick up some art for the new House (and showed ya love too, yup). Yessssir, coming to a music mogul near you real soon, NOBODY (wink - TMNK) And Andre Harrell you saw me, we kicked it in front of BAPEs.

I think it’s time again for a little Leonard Cohen Hallelujah action … it’s been just about 8 months since I posted Allison Crowe’s version of the song, and about 17 months since I posted the lyrics I’ve been able to determine from various different versions.