The Sultans-Final Notice

To everybody’s relief the great Sultans-Spam of 2011 is nearing it’s end. All in all there was an accumulation of over 40 inches in Facebook entries, blogposts, postcards and emails in January alone. More than 3 times the average. The good news is that the exhibit finally opens tonight. The images are hung (hehe), the [...]

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The Sultans-Opening-Nudge-Nudge

“Come to the NY opening of Dirk Anschütz’ new solo exhibition of his fabulous portrait series The Sultans: Turkish men of a certain age in all their patriarchal glory. As I’ve mentioned before, Dirk is a most entertaining photographer and story-teller, as evidenced on his blog. You can read the back story on The Sultans [...]

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Rent-A-Sultan

First things first before it’s too late: Happy new year to all you faithful readers (and of course to the faithless ones, too). The Heavy Light is getting a slightly tardy start into 2011 partly because I’m still a little comatose from eating a ton of Janet and Joe’s christmas cookies (mmmh) but even more [...]

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