On April 23, 2026, Heritage Auctions will hold a sale of Prints & Multiples in Dallas. A reception was held at the house's Park Avenue gallery space on Wednesday to preview some of the art for us locals. I went there to see the illustration art on display but I ended up photographing four prints as well. Why not live life to the fullest?
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To make a movie called "New York, New York" with a "New York" number that isn't the one you go into the cinema humming is rather like writing a children's book called "Alice in Wonderland" which is about another Alice.—Penelope Gilliatt
The artist "Ringo" Daniel Funes markets himself as a protege of Andy Warhol's assistant Steve Kaufman, who was later a pop artist in his own right. On Sunday, Robinhood Auctions of Las Vegas offered two of Funes's one-off silkscreens on canvas, both apparently entitled New York, New York. They differ mainly in their use of color and both have similar double appropriations relating to New York City in the latter half of the 1970s.
The first appropriation on the top of the prints are the familiar song lyrics to the "Theme from 'New York, New York.'" This is not Fred Ebb's original version but Frank Sinatra's from the popular recording, with his interpolations of "A-number one" two times—no self-respecting lyricist would sanction that. The typography is uninspired and perhaps appropriated from somewhere as well. Below the words is an anemic-looking, cropped, monochrome version of Saul Steinberg's celebrated New Yorker cover of March 29, 1976, usually called View of the World from 9th Avenue. The famous map illustration here is presented with offset printing dots, as if it were copied not from the actual magazine cover but from a cheap reproduction. Perhaps it was.
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, February 12, 2023, Lot 200 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, February 12, 2023, Lot 756 |
After encountering these dispiriting silkscreens, it's a good idea to go back to the original song and illustration. In the 1977 movie "New York, New York," Liza Minelli sang Kander and Ebb's original version of the song they wrote for her:
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| Saul Steinberg The New Yorker, March 29, 1976 |
February 18, 2023 Update: There are numerous additional variations on the same theme.
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, February 12, 2023, Lot 375 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, January 29, 2023, Lot 320 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, January 10, 2023, Lot 594 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, December 8, 2022, Lot 867 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, October 25, 2022, Lot 434 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, September 15, 2022, Lot 834 |
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| "Ringo" Daniel Funes Robinhood Auctions, January 4, 2022, Lot 272 |
You get the idea:
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Andy Warhol,, Cupids I
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Andy Warhol, Cupids II
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