The Inimitable Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz, trying to get the Doors to change their name: "The Doors of Perception ... what an Ojai-geeky-too-LA-pottery-glazer kind of uncool idea"  ... more »

Dave Hickey's idiosyncratic blend of high and low - French theory and California surfing - gave him an unmistakable voice  ... more »

Retrospectives at the Tate and the Met, a five-volume catalogue raisonné, many biographies: Is there anything left to say about Francis Bacon?... more »

Nota Bene: New York, New York