Anthony Haden-Guest

British socialite and writer Anthony Haden-Guest has been a champion party-goer for more than 30 years. There are few people more qualified to lead a reader, as he does in The Last Party, past the velvet ropes and doorman and into the tornado of 1970s disco, drug excess, and excessive sex that was Studio 54. Unlike some of his contemporaries whose memories are dulled by years of hard living, Haden-Guest seems to actually recall many of his experiences at Studio. His book is therefore part personal memoir, part reportage.

Ezra Johnson’s fauvist simplification

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A ring of hefty paint cans on the floor confronted me upon walking into the Ezra Johnson show at the Freight & Volume Gallery on Lispenard. A deft Duchampian touch, I felt upon departure. So wrong. “They are made of cardboard,” Johnson would tell me later. “There’s a little papier mache … some plaster, resin. […]

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