Where is the Spring?

We have all been waiting a long time for Spring, haven't we? Saturday there was a glimpse, Sunday was gloomy. I don't mind a gloomy day, but in April?

I saw a great show on Friday at the Phillips de Pury Gallery at 450 W. 15th Street (at 10th Avenue). (Rags said I should just refer to it as Phillips, but he's an Art Insider). It's only on till Wednesday so get on over there pronto.

http://www.phillipsdepury.com/

It includes Diane Arbus's special unseen photos from Hubert's Museum in Times Square, home of freaks, sword swallowers, half man half woman (Albert/Alberta), midgets and a real flea circus. Lots of Hubert's memorabilia is on view as well. Hubert's closed before I came to NYC, one of my big regrets. (My friend Nick Tosches went there when he was 14 years old to buy a fake moustache so he could get into his first Sophia Loren movie without adult accompaniment.) There is also a letter from Diane on view where she describes seeing her first geek.

The show includes nearly every great photographer of the last 100 years, except me and Doug Bruce. The auction is on Wednesday night I believe. Go see this show!

What's Kim been up to you might well ask? Mornings she can be found racing uptown in a taxi while the Indian cabbie screams at his brother in Mumbai on his cellphone while Kim receives text messages from her nephew in Peru while watching a chef on the small embedded TV screen give a lesson in how to make foccacia when her dog walker texts to report on Romeo's latest bowel movement but is interupted by her Sidekick with a message from her friend in Lagos, Nigeria while meanwhile with her left foot she is putting the finishing touches on her book about designer Geoffrey Beene, and at the same time closing the next issue of PAPER, the Design issue. And she hasn't even arrived at work. Whew!

(You can subscribe to PAPER for a mere $9.97 a year which gets you TWO subscriptions, one for you and one for a friend, go to papermag.com, I recommend it.)

A rare tape has surfaced of Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, singing at his high school in the late 60s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S-7Ap6J_FU

Later Johnny would appear at the Limelight nightclub with Michael Musto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-saUheBlMM

I'm not sure how saddened we were at the passing of Charlton Heston, but then we remembered "Touch of Evil", "Planet of the Apes" and "Ben Hur" and we almost forgot about all that gun business. Who can harbor animosity towards a guy who cures lepers? Oh I forgot, that was Jesus. Oh well. Good-by, funnyman!

See you at the run!

XO

Sidney & Roberta