2022-04-07 17:02
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Eu… Read More
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autobiographical, art, books, film blunt and raw.
2022-04-06 20:49
2022-04-06 20:16
2022-04-05 15:44
I've started to put up my art on instagram. You can follow me, like at this link. https://www.instagram.com/irajoel123/ Read More
2022-04-04 13:39
2022-04-02 21:23
I failed to make note of the passing of John Korty. The illustration is from my teen years. Read More
2022-03-17 17:50
just finished the andy warhol diaries on netflix and I was left with a profound sadness. I can't begin to try to understand him or what made him tick, but I always loved his work. He w… Read More
2022-03-14 20:27
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2022-03-13 15:34
Oh the high. Oh the mighty. The Granddaddy of the airplane disaster or near disaster movies was this 1954 release that was the 8th highest and mightiest grossing film of the year. Set i… Read More
2022-03-08 18:14
The first time I saw Picnic was from the smoke filled balcony of my neighborhood Loew’s theatre in Brooklyn on a warm spring Friday night in 1955. I was eight years old and was there w… Read More
2022-03-07 15:48
2022-03-06 04:52
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA… Read More
2022-03-01 18:23
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2022-02-26 18:25
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Eu… Read More
2022-02-25 17:02
2022-02-23 18:58
I wasn't much taken with this safe documentary on the late film critic which makes no mention at all of her homophobic laced reviews. Granted they were early in her career when gays were tre… Read More
2022-02-23 18:26
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Eu… Read More
2022-02-23 18:21
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2022-02-21 19:03
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Eu… Read More
2022-02-21 19:01
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Eu… Read More
2022-02-14 05:01
2022-02-09 17:42
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2022-02-07 02:37
Hot plate melodrama. Made in the late 50’s but set down in small town America 1948, the film looks very much of its late 50’s time in fashion and decor. Never mind, it’s st… Read More
2022-02-03 18:20
Damn. Here is a piece that I wrote about his wife the wonderful dancer also Valda Setterfield. it ties in nicely with David. Coming back to Brooklyn on the R train the other… Read More
2022-02-02 15:34
The most wonderful Monica Vitti has passed at 90. I adored her. Read More
2022-01-30 19:37
Stripes Magazine has just published one of my pieces for their issue "Nowhere Near Home" you can view the entire issue in PDF at this link just copy and paste the link and it should work.&nb&hell…Read More
2022-01-30 16:33
Generally ignored or panned when it first showed up on movie screens, it is now considered one of Hitchcock’s masterpieces and with good reason. Seen by me many times, the last being t… Read More
2022-01-26 15:35
just saw the new and not so improved west side story at the BAM. That it is on its way to bombsville was evident to me by it not showing in the big theatre, a sure sign indeed. Look I'm a ch… Read More
2022-01-21 18:24
Sundays and Cybele Read More
2022-01-19 18:11
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2022-01-18 15:30
This large lavish and wonderful Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino opens with shots of a tourist’s Rome. We soon see a bunch of Japanese visitors to the city taking in the sight… Read More
2022-01-15 05:28
Made two of my favorite films Diva and Betty Blue. Meanwhile that fat orange traitor motherfucker scum of the earth trash who has contributed nothing still walks this earth. Read More
2022-01-12 22:46
The Great Ronnie Spector has passed. That voice, that look. Seminal. Read More
2022-01-10 20:40
Imitation Fruit has just posted one of my collage works in their latest issue. You can check it out at this link. https://imitationfruit.com/Issue_18/mygarden/mygarden.html Read More
2022-01-10 17:38
DOBIE!!!!!! Read More
2022-01-07 18:17
2022-01-07 16:39
The great Sidney Poitier has passed. Heartbroken over this, especially since that fat evil pile of shit is still walking this earth. Poitier was part of my movie going childhood. Very sad we… Read More
2022-01-06 21:55
Sorry to hear of his passing. And that fat orange evil fascist piece of shit, that worthless scum still walks this earth. Read More
2022-01-05 15:17
“The Lost Daughter” and “The Power of the Dog” are great bookends for the horrible year that just past bringing us bloated stilly stuff like "Don't Look Up" and the l… Read More
2021-12-31 20:55
I adored Betty when I was a kid and would watch her early tv show. And that fat orange pile of shit still walks this earth. How great it would have been if the year ended with his deat… Read More
2021-12-27 15:06
2021-12-26 17:58
Posted today. Read More
2021-12-26 16:52
The great American painter Wayne Thiebaud has passed. I adored his work, such pleasure from a piece of cake, how can that be? Read More
2021-12-25 16:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc Read More
2021-12-23 19:06
I am so heartbroken to lean that Ben has passed. I knew him for ever it seemed. If you knew the Strand you knew Ben. He always called me I.J. and a few years ago think around this time chris… Read More
2021-12-23 17:32
Oh Fuck. Read More
2021-12-23 17:10
Nuns on the run. Not actually running but landing in an abandoned palace high in the Himalayas that was once a brothel-estatefor the rich generals and rulers of the district. The nuns are th… Read More
2021-12-16 16:52
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2021-12-08 20:27
this pile of shit is a major disgrace. Just look at this frightening photo of this boob and her children with their guns. Mommy better watch out, these kids are probably sick little fu… Read More
2021-12-08 20:23
2021-12-06 20:06
Somehow I forgot to post this in the summer, so here it is in the winter. They used 2 of my collages. https://www.newfeathersanthology.com/new-feathers22.html Read More
2021-12-06 19:43
Feral Poetry Magazine has just posted 2 of my pieces. You can view them and the entire issue at this link. https://feralpoetry.net/issue-eleven-the-eleventh-issue/ Read More
2021-12-04 16:12
There is plenty of meat on this sad and crushing film to get discussions about it going into 2022 and probably beyond. Set amid the sprawling landscapes of Montana in 1925, that is really N… Read More
2021-12-03 17:16
Another great actor has passed. And Donald Trump a waste of humanity, a scar on our country still walks this earth. Read More
2021-12-03 04:27
Another artist has passed. and that fat orange pile of shit, that evil loser, that waste of space, that stain on humanity still walks this earth. How I long to see this headline in the… Read More
2021-11-30 04:13
2021-11-29 19:12
A rollicking wild ride of a pitch black series that is based on a graphic novel and comes complete with a slash and burn noir feeling. The graphic novel remains unseen by me and the remarkab… Read More
2021-11-27 04:26
Big loss. And that fat pile of orange shit still walks this earth. Un fucking fair. Read More
2021-11-24 18:35
Another fantastic exhibition now on at The Museum Of Modern Art is the large Joseph Yoakum show of his amazing fantastical mostly landscape drawings. I have to add to this that I owned… Read More
2021-11-21 17:55
On now until March is a ravishing large retrospective of the little known but immensely important and talented artist, Sophie Taeuber-Arp. I have of course known her brilliant work for… Read More
2021-11-20 21:19
You go Leah. Just came across this on the net. Lea takes on a homophobic preacher on the subway. I also got into a scene a few years ago on the subway with one of these piles of shit. I let… Read More
2021-11-20 18:53
My work has always been difficult to photograph, and this new piece of mine was a bitch to photograph. That said I think its pretty good, but of course you can never get the full pictu… Read More
2021-11-18 20:32
2021-11-16 20:39
Opening and closing during a Christmas season in Denmark, the film begins with a stolen bicycle and goes on from there to the main thrust of the film that has a horrible train wreck and a lo… Read More
2021-11-14 15:47
Just was shocked to see Steven's obit in the times today. I was friendly with him in the early 70's but we lost touch for years. He changed identities many times, smart. The last time… Read More
2021-11-13 05:39
He just looks like he stinks with bad body odor. Now get the fat orange pile of shit indicted. Good news. Traitors and fascists. Wake the fuck up Amerika. we out number these bags of shit.&n&hell…Read More
2021-11-11 18:37
A revisionist western of sorts, influenced by Leone, Peckinpah but also Tarantino and his recent films of imagining what if this really happened instead of what really happened. There were o… Read More
2021-11-10 20:15
2021-11-09 18:03
this time 30 days for calling kelly ann conway disgusting. they said that is hate. Hate those mother fuckers haven't seen hate. It might be time for me to close my account with them af… Read More
2021-11-09 15:43
Damn. A favorite of mine, he was also an artist. He's gone but Donald Trump still walks this earth. unfair. Read More
2021-11-07 16:01
Sweetly raunchy. The series takes place at a high school in some far away rural suburb in England that is known for being a hot bed of sexual activities and a student body that is out… Read More
2021-10-23 19:39
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2021-10-18 13:57
On its glossy surface this three season super hero comic book adaptation might just seem only like that, all gloss and all surface. However lurking and slinking about this show is a Norish l… Read More
2021-10-11 17:56
2021-10-10 17:42
The two best things in this pot boiler from the early 60’s is the opening and closing stalking black cat credits by Saul Bass and the Oscar nominated title song sung by Brook Benton th… Read More
2021-10-08 17:01
Without a doubt the biggest influence on me as a young art student and then later as a young man looking for a gig in the New York ad world was Push Pin Studio. Soon after graduating from th… Read More
2021-10-07 03:25
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2021-10-01 19:39
The scariest thing about this movie is seeing Joan Crawford at age 45 playing a carnival dancer and carny gal who should be 20 years younger. Many times in the movie Joan is called a girl wh… Read More
2021-09-29 14:59
As I mentioned the other day, this huge sprawling show is going to be a big blockbuster and if you are planning on seeing it, (which you should) be prepared for long lines and c… Read More
2021-09-23 13:53
2021-09-18 04:15
Wish I had liked this loud colorful kinetic New York City musical more than I did. It was overlong and repetitive especially in many of the musical numbers which were crowded it seemed… Read More
2021-09-17 13:48
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2021-09-11 03:33
2021-09-08 14:59
Most famous for The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg. Read More
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