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Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:06 PM click to enlarge Carmen Cartiness Johnson, The Octagon Room, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60”, Courtesy of the artist Given that it’s as old as the hills, including the ones in ancient Egypt, portraiture might not seem like an apt vehicle to convey contemporary ideas. But the age-old tradition has evolved continuously eschewing self-aggrandizing displays of power, wealth and beauty to become a wildly adaptable storytelling device. “The most famous portraits have this static sense to them. The point of painting the portrait wasn’t necessarily presenting this huge, broader narrative,” explained Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray, curator and exhibitions manager at Blue Star Contemporary. “But a lot of these portraits Dutch portraits, Eng ....
Gramercy Park Hotel lobby. Photo by Marianna Massey/Corbis via Getty Images. This year it’s been crickets at the Gramercy. When the lockdown began, sources reported that the grand hotel where every guest gets coveted access to the eponymous residents-only park had occupancy in the “single digits.” The hotel stopped taking clientele soon after the March shutdown, and planned for a reopening when vaccinations let the fashion-forward get back on that diet of gallery shindigs in fancy hotels. Gramercy Park Hotel. Photo by Marianna Massey/Corbis via Getty Images. Now, it appears that the hotel’s closure is about to become way more permanent. A notice pasted to the door indicates that Rosen’s company owes nearly $900,000 in unpaid rent. (RFR owns the hotel, but in a rare, only-in-New York real estate twist, the dirt underneath the structure is owned by someone else.) To keep the property, Rosen pays $5.3 million per year to the estate of ....