{"id":646,"date":"2009-06-02T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-06-02T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:12:15","slug":"bowery-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Bowery on the Beach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/coney-island.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/coney-island.jpg\" alt=\"coney-island\" title=\"coney-island\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucian-freud-naked-man-back-view.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lucian-freud-naked-man-back-view.jpg\" alt=\"lucian-freud-naked-man-back-view\" title=\"lucian-freud-naked-man-back-view\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has Leigh Bowery, said to have died more than a decade ago, been hiding out on the Coney Island boardwalk sporting a mullet all along? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterarkle.com\/\">Peter Arkle<\/a> took the photo at left on Sunday. Lucien Freud&#8217;s classic portrait of Bowery on the right. You make the call. But wIth all due respect, when it comes to fleshy naked derrieres, I&#8217;ll stick with the master:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cgfa_rubens43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cgfa_rubens43.jpg\" alt=\"cgfa_rubens43\" title=\"cgfa_rubens43\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Rubens&#8217;s <em>Three Graces<\/em>. Anyway, it was a perfect day for some cold borscht, a glass of compote, and a stroll by the beach. Come to think of it, that might have been Elvis on the Wonder Wheel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has Leigh Bowery, said to have died more than a decade ago, been hiding out on the Coney Island boardwalk sporting a mullet all along? Peter Arkle took the photo at left on Sunday. Lucien Freud&#8217;s classic portrait of Bowery on the right. You make the call. But wIth all due respect, when it comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bowery on the Beach?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}