Opening Miami to
Chinese Contemporary Art
In a 1988 article in Connoisseur Magazine, I was described as “an occidental orientalist” for being the first to open a New York gallery...
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Celebrating the Miami Book Fair: A Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan
The Miami Book Fair (MBF) is the largest book fair in the United States. In 2014, MBFI celebrated its thirtieth anniversary and presented...
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The Dynamic Jerry Robinson
My father, Sherrill David Robinson, known as Jerry Robinson, was born in Trenton, N.J. on New Year’s Day in 1922 and died on Pearl...
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Soothsayer of Society: A Conversation with Artist/Activist Jay Critchley
In this highly polarized political climate of 2016, Jay Critchley’s uninhibited, fearless genius at making the world a stage — his...
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Rising Waters
THE ADMIRAL by JAMES R. GILBERT was published in 2014. The novel portrays what Earth may be like at the end of the 21st century, when climate change and rising sea levels have dramatically altered Earth’s surface. This excerpt from The Admiral contains an edited narrative of how the Earth changed during the 21st century, as experienced by one extremely wealthy visionary who saw the coming collapse of human civilization and created Akkadia, a floating, remote and reclusive mid-Atlantic community of aging yachts to safeguard his family and preserve much of mankind’s accumulated art and knowledge.
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Haitian Gingerbread
Rain is pouring down in Little Haiti. The colorful storefronts are bathed in a torrential downpour. Inside the Little Haiti...
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