brasserie jacques with ti boss n the peeps.
it’s after work karaoke time at my fave chinatown dive bar, winnie’s. the guy behind me is planning on singing “losing my religion.”
sitting in the american airlines lounge, waiting for my flight to l.a.
i grabbed this at the haring exhibit, and am proud to say i remember seeing this type of his stuff on the subway when i was a kid!!!
statue of liberty excursion, continued.
aldy, allen and i took the circle line ferry to the statue of liberty this weekend. i got into a phyiscal altercation (on her end, not mine) with a fat colombian woman (above, in the blue striped shirt) who kept screaming in my ear. good times!
allen took these photos of lilacs in union square park today.
bête noir
__ “Kings of Rock” Photo Show At Rush Arts Gallery on April 12
Three-Part Event Marks Beastie Boys’ Induction to Rock Hall of Fame
Just two days before the Beastie Boys are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, New York’s Rush Arts Gallery is marking the occasion with a special photo exhibition and book event. The opening reception will be held at Rush, 526 W.26th Street, Suite 311, on the evening of Thursday, April 12. The show will stay up through Saturday, April 14. Entitled “Kings of Rock,” the show will feature a dozen of Sunny Bak’s iconic mid-80s photos of the Beastie Boys, and a complementary selection of photos entitled “Wadeva Images Present Rush Artist Management, 1981 To the Present,” featuring the photos of Talib Haqq.
The reception will be preceded from five until seven o’clock with a presentation and book-signing devoted to “Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label,” featuring Bill Adler and Dan Charnas — the book’s authors — and Cey Adams, the book’s designer. (The Beastie Boys recorded their first album, Licensed to Ill, for Def Jam.) The reception itself will run from seven until nine o’clock. Sunny Bak, a student of Phillipe Halsman, was shooting the downtown scene for Details magazine when she was introduced to the Beastie Boys in the early 80s. Her best-known photo of them graces the centerfold of Licensed to Ill. Talib Haqq, like Russell Simmons, came of age in Hollis, Queens. One of the earliest documentary photographers to set his sights on hip-hop, he began shooting many of Russell Simmons’s management clients in 1981, starting with Kurtis Blow. He may be best known for the cover of Run-DMC, the debut album by the legendary trio, which features his stark black & white photos. “Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label” was published by Rizzoli in October of last year. It was praised in Library Journal as “an extremely readable and browsable book, with glorious photos.”
For more information, please contact Charlotte Mouquin at the Rush Arts Gallery: charlotte@rushartsgallery.org or 212-691-9552. — www.eyejammie.com
