Although this article from The New York Observer was published last week, I can’t get the accompanying picture of Gérard Mortier (who is slated to become GM and artistic director of the New York City Opera in 2009) out of mind.
It looks like he’s either been promoted to a new police task enforcement that has been implemented over a gang of feisty graffiti artists bent on tagging the entire city (“we’re gonna clean up dees streets good and make them shine, boys”), or he’s trying to show how down he is; how close is to the pulse of “the streets”. The idiosyncrasies, the smile, the urban landscape. omg it makes me lol for so many reasons.