chronicles anh Duong
e and Willem Dafo hl Eric Fisc
John McEnroe and Will cotton
candace Bushnell
Bette Middler, kim and Michael Mccarty and richard Grausman
Janna Bullock
and nicole Miller e kim taipal
Beth rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi
Jane Buffe tt
april Gornik
facing a portrait of Anh Duong draped, Pietà-esque, but naked, on the lap of her then beau, Simon de Pury. Where does it go after the break? It’s for sale. Other portraits, many whose subjects where there, in paint and flesh, including Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Mike Nichols, Christy Ferrer, Chuck Close, John McEnroe, Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Bryan Hunt, Ralph Gibson. Then the subjects and future subjects moved on to The Top of The Standard (I so miss saying Boom Boom Room), including Bob Balaban (fresh from filming the Oscar’s ‘focus group’-funniest part of the show), and Lynn Grossman, Calvin Klein, Nathan Lane, Lorinda Ash, Clifford Ross, Willem Dafoe, Jane Buffett, Jane Rosenthal, and more subjects and subjects to be. 28 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • APRIL 2012
Perhaps our newest artist, is someone known more for her collecting, curating and donating . . . Janna Bullock. Our intrepid friend debuted her show, Allegories & Experiences, at a Beaux Arts mansion on 82nd and Fifth. Portraying politicians, businessmen, lawyers, journalists, tyrants, criminals, and victims (sounds like a co-op board I know), she featured pictures of Russian power players and those they affected, swathed under a deliberately obscuring gauzy veil. Each of the 24 found images was accompanied by their stories in Russian and English. “She’s so brave!” whispered a viewer. Why whispered? I thought more about it, checked my back, the door, and made a quiet exit, congratulating her softly, all the way. ✦
© Patrick McMullan; MiDlEr: JErry ruotolo
Fashion Week flashed her runway leg (much like Angelina), and lured the East Side girls west to Lincoln Center. They should’ve projected an opera while they had us.