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Over the years I have been lucky to create many visual narratives during a varied career as an artist, journalist, curator, art historian and publisher. "View from the Top Floor" brings together some of these stories in a chronicle of my life and the creative world of Downtown New York that I experienced during the twenty years I lived in the top floor loft at 98 Bowery.
Read MoreIn the late 1960s New York was the place to be if you were interested in the arts. I came from California to pursue a graduate degree in art history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. The art world's striking extremes were quickly perceived. While the Institute's elegant quarters in the Doris Duke Mansion on 5th Ave. and 77th St. provided a glimpse of a rarified world of masterpieces, scholarship, and elegant teas, my tiny $65 a month, cockroach infested, studio apartment in Greenwich Village reflected the grittier realities of downtown's creative bohemia.
Read MoreA day in the life of Bowery Bar owner Harry Mason, 1974. A portrait in words and pictures.
Read MoreIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, hundreds of young artists and would be bohemians passed though our loft at 98 Bowery.
Read MoreLiving at 98 Bowery from 1969 to 1973, Carla Dee Ellis (aka Carla Popcorn) created Pop Art paintings inspired by Andy Warhol’s style, subject matter and factory techniques.
Read MoreIn late 1960s Mike Shannon and poet Billy Collins shared a love of Lord Buckley, Charles Bukowski, and the Rolling Stones. Billy encouraged Mike to write and publish poems.
Read MoreMike Malloy's controversial exhibition at OK Harris Gallery in Soho in 1972 confronted gallery goers with the decision to either kill or free an ant.
Read MoreArt writer Alan Moore moves into 98 Bowery, 1974. A portrait in words and pictures.
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