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The Frick of the Upper West Side

October 30, 2017December 7, 2017 lgsnyc

interior photo showing paintingsThe online version of my recent print piece at New York is up. 91-year-old Ben Heller looks back at his legendary apartment and art collection that even he can’t believe he owned. In collecting Jackson Pollock he became best friends with him. These photos have never been seen by the public before.

Read now at New York Magazine

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Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Stowaway Simon & Schuster was her bestselling first full-length work of nonfiction, and was an Indie next selection.  Her next nonfiction book will be Amelia and George, for Viking Books.

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