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☆ What Endures After a Climate Activist’s Suicide: Grief, Anger and Hope
  + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( John Leland | More About John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As they walked together that night — Mr. Morales before heading home to East Harlem, Mr. Buckel before returning to his husband in brownstone Brooklyn — their lives were heading in very different directions. “I thought, Oh, God, another article,” Mr. Morales said. “I was a little aggravated,” Mr. Morales said. Mr. Buckel was writing in the first person. Mr. Morales showed the email to another worker at the composting site: Does this say what I think it does?
Persons: Mr, Morales, Buckel, David, ” Mr Organizations: Prospect Locations: East Harlem, Brooklyn
☆ He Thought His Chuck Close Painting Was Worth $10 Million. Not Quite.
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( John Leland | More About John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
You befriend a curmudgeonly stranger and one day, out of the blue, the old grouch bequeaths you a gift to change your life. But for Mark Herman, a former dog walker now living on Social Security, an auction house in Dallas told him exactly how much that fantasy was worth. In his cluttered apartment in Upper Manhattan on Tuesday, Mr. Herman watched speechless as the auctioneer declared the final bid on Lot 77070, an untitled Chuck Close painting that briefly, improbably, belonged to him. On hand to record Mr. Herman’s reaction was Amy Sargeant, one of two filmmakers who contacted him after the story of his painting appeared in The New York Times this summer. She had read about it on a ferry to a remote island in Tanzania.
Persons: Mark Herman, Herman, Chuck, Herman’s, Amy Sargeant Organizations: Social Security, New York Times Locations: Dallas, Upper Manhattan, improbably, Tanzania
☆ The 1963 March on Washington Changed America. Its Roots Were in Harlem.
  + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( John Leland | More About John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1963, a four-story townhouse on West 130th Street in Harlem became the headquarters for what was then the largest civil rights event in American history, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. For one summer the house, a former home for “delinquent colored girls,” was a hive of activity — so frenetic that the receptionist twice hung up on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by mistake. Together with Mr. Randolph, they became known as the Big Six. As Courtland Cox, one of the march organizers, recalled, “People were sick and tired of being sick and tired, and they wanted to make a statement to the nation.”
Persons: ”, Martin Luther King Jr, King’s, Bayard Rustin, Philip Randolph, Rustin, Randolph, John F, Medgar Evers, Courtland Cox Organizations: Jobs, 130th, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Urban League, Racial, Student Nonviolent, Mr, National Guard, University of Alabama, “ Locations: Harlem, Washington, Birmingham, Mississippi
☆ The Chuck Close Painting Is Heading to Auction. The Dog Walker Abides.
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( John Leland | More About John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Paintings by Chuck Close once sold for as much as $4.8 million. He offered the painting to Sotheby’s, which scheduled it for auction last December but then withdrew it because Mr. Close’s studio and longtime gallery had no record of the painting. Instead of a jackpot, Mr. Herman had a bill for $1,742, for stretching the canvas onto a frame. “One reader commented that I was the Dude redux,” Mr. Herman said, referring to the lovable stoner in the Coens’ “The Big Lebowski.”He so is. Mr. Herman passed.
Persons: Herman, Chuck Close, Caroline White, White’s, Mr, Herman said, Alfred Fuente —, ”, —, Close’s, Taylor Curry Organizations: University of Massachusetts, New York Times, Heritage Locations: Chelsea, New York
☆ Was the Rolled-Up Painting in the Dog Walker’s Closet Worth Millions?
  + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( John Leland | More About John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Mr. Close, best known for his monumental photorealist portraits, had not yet found his style and was painting in an expressionist mode heavily influenced by Willem de Kooning. Mr. Close sued on free speech grounds. His lawyer, in what became a well-known First Amendment case, argued that “art is as fully protected by the Constitution as political or social speech.”The lawyer was Mr. Silver, future poodle owner. Mr. Silver prevailed in court, then lost on appeal. Mr. Close, who later dismissed the exhibition as “sort of transitional work,” lost his job.
Persons: Herman, Chuck Close, “, ”, Willem de Kooning, Bob Dylan, Close, Silver Organizations: University of Massachusetts Amherst, New Locations: New York, “
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