I am sad to report that Indigo co-founder and my former wife Deborah Cholet passed away on Thursday, October 15th, 2015.  Deb (Devi) was an artist, designer, and a jeweler. She was a collector of art, cats and birds, and a bright shining spirit.

A story I've been following here in Philadelphia concerns African contemporary art, artistic freedom and first amendment (maybe even second amendment) rights.

I just returned from a twelve day visit to Haiti. I was there with about two dozen other Haitian art collectors, gallery owners and museum curators for the 2014 conference of the Haitian Art Society. It was actually less a conference than a whirlwind tour of galleries, markets, artists' studios, private collections, cultural institutions and the one museum still functioning in Port-au-Prince - with a very congenial group and some excellent meals along the way.

In March, 2012 we received this sad news from Susan Tselos about a Haitian artist who we have had the privilege of knowing and exhibiting for many years: