First Impressions: A Night At HEIST Gallery.
Tonight was my first encounter with emerging artist Sadie Weis and gallery entrepreneur Talia Eisenberg. I hope it won’t be my last. Something about the art world has always eluded me. I just haven’t gotten it. Tonight at Heist,...
Gender/bender…
Art. Social commentary. Personal discovery. How should these concepts interact? All three can comment on the others, so does one deserve precedence over the rest? As the web allows everyone (and their mother) publish self-probing diaries and social/political critiques...
Terese Pagh Teglgaard, Heating up Europe and Still in Her Teens.
At first glance, Terese Pagh Teglgaard, a tall, dark blonde, all around beautiful girl, portrayed to most individuals as a super sultry and almost unapproachable debutante. But beneath the refined and elegant surface rests a young lady trying to...
Dilemma of a tabloid writer.
For those of you in the business of being inspired, getting relevant news and being sufficiently titillated- I have some bad news. No one cares anymore.
Why? Because suddenly google equals truth. Which in a roundabout way means that the...
Sundance. The parties and movies keep coming…
The parties: The Sundance Channel had a party, and it was everything an industry party should be: exclusive, relaxed, and prepped with finger food. Seriously, they had mini s’mores, who can beat that? It was low on celebrity, but...
War and Peace and Archives.
The Israel-Palestine conflict is almost certainly the most controversial issue of modern times, yet rational discussion of the topic often seems impossible. Participants and pundits alike tend to base their opinions of the dispute not on empirical evidence, but...
To Predicate on Etiquette.
Now, we here at Scallywag & Vagabond have a self-proclaimed duty to ‘report’ on matters of etiquette and manners, and other things we deem fit. Still, it seems apropos to take an actual look at what that means, and...
Musings from Sundance: Day 1. Where did the Artists and shiny black cars go?
As soon as we found out Sarah was going to be at the Sundance Film Festival I began making phone calls like a madman to try and accommodate Sarah to some of the interesting events that I knew would...
Splendor at the 2010 American Antiques Show.
What makes a good collection? What is it that an antiques collector is trying to get his hands on and where does an antique dealer begin to look for the things that they deem valuable. These where the questions...
Was Michael Mineo sodomized by police?
A cop's word vs a career criminal.
Here are the facts. Michael Mineo a career criminal is suing the city for $440 million for what he claims to be a brutal sodomy assault at the behest of the police. The...
‘Quick while still,’ stars at pop up at Heist gallery.
In their continued efforts to be innovative and a progressive voice for down town artists (what else would we expect from Ms Talia Eisenberg and her crew over at Heist Gallery..?) Ms Eisenberg did the unexpected. She took us...
Birth of a salesman?
Scallywag and Vagabond has developed a strong and steady readership since its founding in November of 2008, thus winning out over those of our early critics who said it couldn't be done. I remember Keith Moon, for instance, predicted...
The Dandy set attend ‘Cleverly Clothed.’
To be honest I'm not sure if it's ever good form to ever be exceedingly late for ones own party but such was the case as I nonchalantly rolled up this past Friday night at Ella Lounge where this...
Bradley Cooper is to become Britain’s youngest sex change patient.
Dilemma in Britain.
There seems to be a lot of brow beating over there in England right now as the National Health Service (NHS) has just agreed to pledge to pay for the cost of 16 year old Bradley Cooper's...
Ten give away clues that your new room mate is a junkie.
There comes a right of passage of every New Yorker when eventually they come across the one room mate they will never forget in a long time. Mine came 3 years ago when it turned out my friendly coy...
