by Alice First | Dec 7, 2023 | Arts & Leisure, Home - Sidebar
This month, a beautiful cloth-bound volume displaying some of legendary photographer William Eggleston’s most distinctly mysterious, often uncanny images of his surroundings comes out with William Eggleston: Mystery Of The Ordinary. One of the first and certainly the...
by Alice First | Dec 1, 2023 | Arts & Leisure, Home - Sidebar
An excerpt from the final chapter of PALMER, Vol 4, What Really Happens in Vegas by James Patterson… The big bird rises at dawn from the Las Vegas airport, saluting the sun. “Everybody buckled up?” asks the Maverick helicopters pilot, who has flown...
by Alice First | Dec 1, 2023 | Arts & Leisure - landing hero
An excerpt from PALMER, Vol 4, Ch. 1, True Colors by Linda Yablonsky… An artist who starts at the top usually has only one way to go. Not David Salle. His grip on the art world has had little slippage since the early 1980s, when his cacophonic, multi-paneled...
by Alice First | Dec 1, 2023 | Arts & Leisure
An excerpt from PALMER, Vol 4, Ch. 2, Ahead of her Time by Alexa Brazilian… There is a faded photograph of the sculptor Ann Weaver Norton, working in her lush garden in Florida in 1962. Her tiny, barely five-foot frame, dressed in a skirt suit, pearls, and a...
by Alice First | Dec 1, 2023 | Arts & Leisure
An excerpt from PALMER, Vol 4, Ch. 7, A Life in Pictures by David Campany… Photography is such a mixed blessing. Billions of images, mostly mundane and ephemeral, fill every corner of our lives. But the volume also includes startling art and some of the most...