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Spent much of the day with stars in my eyes.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 After those damned dilating drops at the ophthalmologist.\u00a0 However, my pressures are still below glaucoma level and the photographs of my retina show insignificant change.\u00a0 The technician photographing my retinas kept saying, “Watch the green dot.\u00a0 Your eye’s moving.\u00a0 Watch the green dot.”\u00a0 Well, geez.\u00a0 I thought I was doing a damned good job of keeping my eye from doing its normal task, checking out those flashing lights to the left.\u00a0 Apparently not good enough.\u00a0 Anyhow.<\/p>\n
Over to Cafe Ena, a Latin fusion restaurant, at the intersection of 46th and Grand for lunch with the docent outing crew.\u00a0 I had mofongoed Yucca.\u00a0 This involves pounding and cooking it in some way according to our waiter.<\/p>\n
After lunch I walked with Allison and Jane MacKenzie from the Cafe to the Weinstein gallery.\u00a0 Martin Weinstein, the gallery owner, introduced the current show of Robert Mapplethorpe, Alec Sloth and August Sanders portraits.\u00a0 He represents Alec, a local boy now part of Magnum, and Robert Mapplethorpe’s estate.<\/p>\n
Curious about the business side of gallery work, I asked Martin how representing an artist worked.\u00a0 Turns out he ships art, packing and insuring it, both incoming and outgoing.\u00a0 He frames all the pieces or arranges for them to be mounted.\u00a0 He manages the three buildings that constitute his modest, spare gallery space, pays a woman to assist in the complex logistics of the business.\u00a0 He also collaborates with museums to mount shows of his artists, mostly on his nickel.\u00a0 In addition he mounts several shows a year with all the attendant costs, including a reception with wine and cheese, plus boarding and expenses for the artist.\u00a0 This is all sunk cost, paid out long before any commissions come in from sales.<\/p>\n
It is, he emphasized, “A very stressful business.\u00a0 Always this coming, that going.”\u00a0 Martin is a tall, slightly stooped man with a shock of white hair and round architect type glasses, thick ones.<\/p>\n
The photographs were elegant, Martin was entertaining and there was a good turn out.\u00a0 A fine afternoon.\u00a0 Thanks, Allison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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