ABOUT ARTABOLIC ARTS MANAGEMENT
Heinrich von Kesseler
Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé
Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la Tour abolie (Gérard de Nerval)
Call me by my social name Heinrich von Kesseler, aka Harry Kaplan, owner of Artabolic Arts Management
In 2020 I decided to step away from the last in a series of extremely gratifying careers, in order to fully devote my time to the preservation and promotion of LGBTQ art, opera, film and literature.
Artabolic Arts Management specializes in curating and promoting legacy LGBTQ artworks, from the powerful AIDS-era paintings of Richard Hofmann to the Symbolist Snow White chamber opera of Jacques Izoard, and the homoerotic poetry of 15th Century Parisian gay-for-pay poet and jailbird François Villon.
In a clip from the artist documentary I co-produced below, I explain what it was like first meeting the redoubtable East Village painter Richard Hofmann back in 1989.
Brief clip from the award-winning artist documentary "Fear and Desire: The Life and Death of Richard Hofmann"
RELATED RESOURCES
You will find four of Richard Hofmann paintings in the just published LGBTQ art history “About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art". I highly recommend this authoritative volume. If you'd like to purchase Dr. Katz's book, please use the Buy on Amazon button which adds the Artabolic affiliate code.
Brooklyn based Atlantic Fine Arts Services handles all your art shipping, moving and transportation services. I have used them for nearly a decade and there is no substitute for experience!
New York based SquareSpace reduces the iterative chaos of web development down to a pleasure flow simple enough to be driven by a single person.
