LARRY BAUMHOR

Down Goes Baumhor: Street Photographer Knocked Out by a Homeless Guy on 6th Ave in NYC by Larry Baumhor (Copyright 2023)    It was just another day. I was walking East on 25th Street near 6th Ave to the Chelsea Flea Market when I shot a photo of two homeless men in front of a shelter, diagonally across the street where I sold vintage photography at The Garage Antique Flea Market for fifteen years. The Garage was razed in June 2014, knocked out by a real estate developer who built two luxurious hotels, back-to-back on 24th and 25th Streets.    I often shot photos of homeless people from this shelter. I mean who has not taken a photo with their cell phone of a homeless person? Although I have a Sony camera with a strap around my neck, a little more obvious than a cell phone.    After I shot the photo of the two homeless guys in front of the shelter, an African-American well-built slender man in his twenties looking disheveled, (I a...

Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol,  and The Garage Antique Flea Market by Larry Baumhor (Copyright 2022) ANDY WARHOL WAS A DICK By NewYorkMinute TV Interview with Paul Morrissey, circa 2013 at Film Forum, NYC   Andy Warhol suffered from Sydenham’s chorea during his youth. He was often sick as a child and thus developed into a hypochondriac. Comments from the video: ANDY WARHOL WAS A DICK ...    “Andy Warhol was a publicity creation. Paul Morrissey is correct. His wording may have been a little caustic but he did know Andy Warhol better than most people. I don’t look for any deep meaning to Andy Warhol because there is none. People pay millions for a Warhol silk screen work in the 21st century. It would make a lot more sense to just employ an art student to do a silk screen. The art world is full of unscrupulous dealers and “celebrities” with too much money. No one wants to admit they paid millions for a work by Andy Warhol that he had little or nothing to do with. A...

Steven Spielberg, 'The Fabelmans' cast on How the Film Hits Home The Fabelmans and My Son by Larry Baumhor (Copyright 2022)    How do you determine that you watched a movie that is a masterpiece of filmmaking, that will win many Academy Awards, that will be preserved in the Library of Congress for eternity? 1: In one scene you cry. 2: In the next scene you laugh. 3: You become entranced; your mouth is open and your jaw is dropped. 4: You forget about time and that you’re in a movie theater. You’re inside the movie and don’t know what you’re doing there. 5: The movie ends and you don’t know what happens. 6: When you realize the movie is over, you stand up applauding and shouting, “Spielberg, Spielberg, Spielberg!” 7: You take the bus home and look out the window and see yourself flying adjacent to the bus wearing the same black jacket you have on. 8: You stand up on the crowded bus and chant, “Fabelman, Fabelman, Fabelman. Happy Thanksgiving.” No one says anyth...

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Right, Philip Guston in his Woodstock studio a few months before his 1970 Marlborough Gallery show.  Photograph by Frank R. Lloyd. Left, Philip Guston, Scared Stiff, Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston   Philip Guston’s Cartoonish Paintings by Larry Baumhor   Self-taught rebel artist Philip Guston defied the art world spitting in the face of his former abstract expressionist style for a comical brutal figurative style, holding a mirror up to American culture and politics. The directors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and Tate Modern postponed their scheduled Guston exhibit and all hell broke loose in the art world. Matthew Teitelbaum, director of MFA in Boston wrote that “how we present the work needs to be reconsidered because the work has changed since we first envisioned the exhibition.” Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery stated that Guston “appropriated images of Black tra...