The massive Frieze art fair landed on Manhattan’s Randall’s Island and not everyone was happy. Pro-union protestors and members of Occupy Museums showed up to protest but they were pushed so far away that you have to wonder if anyone noticed.
Geraldine Visco
Gerry Visco is fabulous. Illegally blonde and at large on the Upper East Side of New York City, she’s living the fun life in the fast lane as a performer, writer and photographer who also has a day job in her spare time. She’s been nominated for a Glammy award for best nightlife journalist in 2010 and 2011 and won the Village Voice Best of Award as Bravest Nightlife Photographer of 2010, and she can be spotted performing in numerous films, theaters and nightclubs everywhere. Join the Gerry Party!
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Geraldine Visco
Don’t you love attending a high profile art opening on a Friday night and instead of getting a nice big glass of vino, being handed a plastic cup of imported mineral water? Forget about TGIF. Obviously, we all have to suffer if the artist is in recovery and the legendary bad girl photographer Nan Goldin, now 58 years old, is trying to stay off the stuff.
There I was, sitting in a rocking chair at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick but I felt like I was visiting a friend in her own home and we were just sitting around bullshitting. No, it wasn’t one of those snobby holier-than-thou art shacks in Manhattan. It was Marni Kotak’s show, The Birth of Baby X and the rocking chair had belonged to the artist’s mother.
