Patti Astor Mural By @Call_Her_Al (All Photos By Gail)
First Street Green Art Park is currently celebrating the life of Patti Astor, who was known as NYC’s First Lady of Graffiti Art. Astor cofounded the Fun Gallery in the East Village in 1981 with partner Bill Stelling, where she helped to introduce a range of graffiti artists to the wider art world. Contemporary artists Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring also had solo exhibitions at Fun Gallery. Astor died of unspecified causes in early April at age 74.
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Apple Sculpture By Claude LaLanne Photographed at Paul Kasmin Gallery By Gail in January 2019
They say that celebrity deaths come in threes. This past week we said goodbye to playwright Terrence McNally, legendary Drummer Bill Rieflin and, on a local scale, NYC Gallerist and Photographer Paul Kasmin, whose renowned Chelsea galleries have provided Worleygig.com with amazing content for more than a decade.
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From The Awl:
“Robert Miller, art dealer and sometime-painter, died yesterday (6/22) in Miami, the Robert Miller Gallery confirmed today. Miller got his start at the André Emmerich gallery in the ‘60s. After a dozen years there, the Robert Miller Gallery opened (in a partnership with his wife, Betsy) in 1977 at its first location, on Fifth Avenue.
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