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BUNGALOW IS BASED AT AN AMAZING BUILDING IN CHELSEA. It’s a former printing warehouse that has been artists’ studios since the 1970s, and retains a bit of the ambitiously anarchic spirit that used to define this city before it became a long Sephora line.
Our studio neighbor is the artist Robert McCurdy, who is best known for paintings of Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, Jeff Bezos, Desmond Tutu, Ketanji Brown Jackson and many others, which embody Picasso’s notion that art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
His space is a magical wonderland, devoted to music and a million other interests. Including these previously unseen drawings. I can’t quite characterise them, except to say that each makes me laugh, and then makes me consider something.
“Secretly, Locksley choreographed his every movement.”
“René Descartes has been thoughtless”
“Bumble, bumble, bumble. Rumble, rumble, rumble.”
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“Bad Bird”
“While Sheila thought about Max, her blind date lumbered into view.”
“Max was actually quite mesmerizing.”
“Brilliant!”
“As the waterfall drew closer, Pepper finally understood WHY she wasn’t supposed to jump up on people.”
“Why fish don’t read.”
“Frank often mixed up ‘mindfulness’ with ‘mindlessness’.”
“Picasso’s bulls ALWAYS disturbed the torero”
“Fly understands now that being the center of attention is not always a ‘good’ thing.”
“Fly regretted his inability to pull out of a flat spin.”
RAVI SOMAIYA is the founder of Bungalow. You can email him here.