SKATE OR DIE!: PUNKS & ANARCHISTS AT FDR SKATEPARK
Photographer and chronicler Larry Baumhor braved the slings and arrows and broken-glass-covered slopes of Philadelphia’s legendary FDR Skatepark....
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CHELSEA FLEA MARKET: REBORN AND THRIVING POST-COVID
New York City has been celebrating the September reopening of the Chelsea Flea Market. The shared joy of...
BEN REY: A NEW YORK PUNK INSTITUTION
Inspired by his visits to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Let It Rock shop in London, Ben Rey...
FAREWELL, GEM SPA: AN EAST VILLAGE INSTITUTION BITES THE DUST
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just killing and sickening people; it’s decimating small businesses, some with storied histories....
Mariann Marlowe: A Living Legend in the East Village
The owner of the first punk rock boutique in New York is still making a go of it...
THE GHOSTS OF ANDY WARHOL AND OTHER SCENE-MAKERS WERE ALWAYS LOST AND FOUND AT NYC’S FLEA MARKETS
Comparisons of Warhol’s Factory to the Garage Antique Flea Market The flea markets in New York City were...
LIFE AND DEATH AT THE MET
A new exhibit at the Met Breuer, ‘Like Life: Sculpture, Color, And The Body’ will blow your mind...
THE MAGIC EAST VILLAGE CANDY STORE THAT DOESN’T SELL CANDY
Ray’s Candy Store, a tiny store at Tompkins Square Park has seen it all over the last 44...
MARY ELLEN MARK: IN MEMORIAM
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) was a world-renowned photographer and social documentarian with an eye and a soul that...
YAYOI KUSAMA: AN ART PHENOMENON IN CHELSEA
People are lining up around the block to see this 88-year-old Japanese woman’s strange and beautiful work I...
DRAG QUEEN FESTIVAL
Text and photos by Larry Baumhor In September of 2016, I attended the Bushwig Drag Festival at the...
CHASING DEBBIE HARRY & CHRIS STEIN AT THE MERMAID PARADE
Text and all photos by Larry Baumhor Dedicated to Gillian McCain I was on assignment. Gillian McCain asked...