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There are many contenders, but only a few can take the New York art scene by storm. Ask many of discerning collectors, and they will tell you they have found their woman. Her name is Stella Michaels,  and on anyone given day she is working between 7 and 22 hours in her Chelsea studio on the modern day masterpieces… Read more »

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Just past noon, Buddy McMahon and I jumped into the parade at 61st Street joining our classmates and teachers from LaSalle Academy marching up Fifth Avenue. This was non-regulation—starting the parade late and dressed as clowns (we paid the piper with a “knuck off the head” from Brother Brendan the next day at school). We broke off at the Met Museum to run east to… Read more »