NYC Pix

[Artguy]

Hi all just got back from NYC ...the first group of photos are from my opening at the Agora Gallery....













I stayed at the YMCA in Harlem and spent a lot of time in that community ...discovering jazz joints...soul food...and just hanging out with some very inspiring folk....Harlem has become a self directed community that we could all learn from..




The chicken joint downstairs use to be called Smalls' Paradise a bar where Malcolm X then known as Detroit Red use to work as a waiter.


Store window a few doors down from the Apollo...


This Ez's Woodshed a little jazz joint that has day time pay what you want shows. The pianist use to play on Roland Kirks' Band.


More than typical Harlem pride

These next shots are just shots from various locations around Manhattan...







and finally a shot I took from the plane window on the way home

[judih]

oh, bravo!
everything looks amazing.
The gallery looks so New York - the people, so New York-y, a little let's go for sushi afterwards-ish.
The shot of the Apollo!
and the fabulous chalk sidewalk.
love the buildings - makes my heart swell how very city-ish they are.

and the flight home, well, it's magic.
hope you're well, kurt and feeling spectacular.

[stilltrucking]

Audubon Ballroom
Speaking of Malcom
Did you see that?

[Artguy]

Hi Truck, no i didn't get to that corner. I am right now reading Malcolms' autobiography, as told to Alex Hailey, and I am fascinated by him.

[stilltrucking]

If Profiles in Courage was written today it would have to have a chapter on Malcolm.

This is from an interview with Gordon Parks not long before he was murdered.

"I realized racism isn't just a black and white problem. It's brought bloodbaths to about every nation on earth at one time or another. Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant — the one who wanted to help the Muslims and the whites get together — and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then — like all [black] Muslims — I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years. That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days — I'm glad to be free of them."
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/265/202/

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[Dave The Dov]

Love that portrait of Duke Ellington above the pianist who played with Roland Kirk. Did you get his name at all???? Those of your opening are wonderful too!!!!
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[Arcadia]

beautiful photos!!!!!!!! The more interesting ones for me (and I use interesting not in a Sontang´s way) were the writings in the vereda, the shoking suit and the old apollo neon (it reminds me my own city´s old cinema and theatre neons that doesn´t exist anymore!).
thanks for sharing them!!!!!!!!