“Living with art, I am surrounded by thoughts, visions and conversations by other artists. It’s all very intimate.”
Philip Smith
Hacker Obtains Unreleased Clinton White House Doodles
Gawker has published a series of Bill Clinton sketches obtained by the prolific political hacker Guccifer, perhaps best known for his leaks of George W. Bush’s paintings.
The Poet-Magus of the Lower East Side
Imagine the following scenario: You and your wife live on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. You start a greeting card company, Ink Weed Arts, in 1951, just after the two of you get married. You are a poet and she is a dancer who works as a hand and foot model in advertising. The two of you want to offer an alternative to the insipid messages of Hallmark Cards.