Open-and-Shut Case
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Fitzpatrick says he chose Stein to run the gallery because he was impressed by his previous efforts at Carl Hammer and because Stein promised to bring considerable financial backing to the business, including $16,000 that was needed to pay the gallery’s rent for 1995. In order to secure a low monthly rate, World Tattoo had agreed to pay the rent in one annual chunk, due before the end of 1994.
Fitzpatrick first began to have doubts about Stein’s management of the facility several weeks ago when he learned that Stein had booked a rave party in the gallery. Although it would have brought in only a small amount of additional revenue, Stein says, the party would have raised the gallery’s visibility. Fitzpatrick canceled the event. “You don’t do that in a space where you have Paschke paintings hanging,” he says.
Rickman says he will take over the job of buying new trade books, while managers at each store will decide what other books to stock. “That goes along with trying to tailor each of our stores to the community it is in and make it location driven.” It’s also how Waterstone’s Booksellers operates its U.S. locations.
“I plan to litigate and vigorously enforce my rights,” says Podmajersky, who described the Joseph Holmes troupe as “the pride and joy of my real estate portfolio.”
