Posts filed under ‘Admittedly Tangential’
Faire les Courses for Robert Frank
The summer after my sophomore year of college I interned at Pace/Macgill Gallery. And when Robert Frank—one of the artists Pace/Macgill represents—returned from an extended vacation, I was dispatched to Whole Foods to restock his empty refrigerator. Here’s the grocery list I followed (the Gallery Assistant warned against improvisation). Unfortunately, Peter Macgill denied me the privilege of hand-delivering the food to Mr. Frank’s apartment. That roast chicken was the closest I came to meeting him. I hope the white meat wasn’t dry.




