Making a mint Old City artist Virgil Marti some years ago created a wallpaper design out of images from his junior high school yearbook back home in St. Louis. The Tyler School grad exhibits at New York's Holly Solomon Gallery and has a show opening June 15 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on Broad Street. Marti won't discuss payment but notes that Altoids did send him a case of 48 tins. It was a gathering of 21 students of English professor Nora Magid , who until her sudden death 10 years ago was a one-woman journalism school at the University of Pennsylvania. It would have been trifecta if current editor Loren Feldman had made it, but he was swamped in Philadelphia.
Performers usually walk off the stage with admiration from their fans.
His rep says he tours with a carry-all bag and keeps the unmentionables as souvenirs.