Dakis Joannou is the Greek equivalent of Saatchi. This adventurous contemporary collector has amassed a distinguished and influential repertoire of iconic works ranging from Jeff Koons, Urs Fisher, Kiki Smith, Maurizio Cattelan to Kara Walker and many others. Joannou is someone who not only thinks outside the box, he’s created another geometric form: The Deste Foundation for […]
Archive for March, 2010
Southern Maine’s Delights
Posted in March 11th, 2010
As an addendum to my last post about The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake in Maine, six months later I visited the southern part of Maine, in and around Camden. Remember the classic 60s film Peyton Place? It was filmed in this once entirely Waspy bastion of Victorian morality. It’s still pretty rare to see any rainbow […]