My book is now real! It will be in stores March 31st. Published by Abbeville Press.

It’s a book about art works that changed my life, from my years as an art student, an artist, an art dealer. Stories about images that live large in my mind, the meanings I find in them, the lessons they teach on life and love.  

Twenty five stories. About my friend Ernest Withers, the great Civil Rights Movement photographer who was outed as an FBI informant. About the Greenwich Village mobster who painted like Henri Rousseau. About the majestic Clayoquot Woman that Edward Curtis revered and despised. About Philip Guston, the smoking Zen Master. About me and that flamingo.

You can pre-order the book here Amazon or at your favorite bookseller.

My book is now real!  It will be in stores March 31st. Published by the redoubtable Abbeville Press.

I began writing in the summer of 2020. It is a memoir in the shape of 25 essays about works of art that have changed my life. Works that I live with; I listen to them closely, they tell me stories about how to live and how to love.

The book looks at art through the lens of spiritual growth and compassion. Many of the stories are about learning from people we love who do bad things. Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, John Chamberlain, my dad, my mom. etc.

It's also a how-to on looking at the art and photography around us in a very personal way, finding personal meaning through deep looking.

I’m so grateful to the brilliant Sophie Crumb for the cover that beautifully captures the book's spirit.

PREORDER HERE!

The great Tara Booth just won the Eisner (the Oscar of comics/graphic novels). Category: Humor Publication. For her book Processing. A compendium of 100 painted stories that make us laugh/cry. Congrats, Tara!!

Original paintings on paper for sale. Call or email me.

MUUS Collection has donated the Fred W. McDarrah Estate to The New York Historical, New York’s first museum. The McDarrah Estate includes approximately 51,000 prints,  200,000 negatives, 9,000 contact sheets, and related ephemera. The New York Historical is one of the premier institutions for historical research and exhibitions in the United States.

You can can explore four exhibitions and 25 press items about Fred here: www.stevenkasher.com/artists/fred-w-mcdarrah

Read the donation announcement here: https://www.muuscollection.com/post/donation-announcement-the-fred-w-mcdarrah-estate