Editing Art Garfunkel (section)

==Personal life==
Garfunkel married Linda Marie Grossman (b. 1944), an architect,<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 23, 1972 |title=Milestones |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878085,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022194944/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878085,00.html |archive-date=October 22, 2010 |access-date=September 19, 2012}}</ref> in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] on October 1, 1972, and they divorced in 1975. He has claimed that not only did he not love her, he did not even like her much.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 24, 2000 |title=He and Paul Simon Split Up in Acrimony Nearly 30 Years Ago, but Art Garfunkel, Soon to Make a Rare Appearance in Britain, Still Wonders What Would Have Happened Had He and Simon Stayed Together |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/articles/telegraph.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104182653/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/articles/telegraph.html |archive-date=November 4, 2011 |access-date=November 21, 2011 |website=Official website |publisher=Art Garfunkel |type=article}}</ref>

He was romantically involved with actress and photographer [[Laurie Bird]] from March 1974 until her suicide in 1979<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official website |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/chrono/1975-1979.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219060138/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/chrono/1975-1979.html |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |access-date=November 21, 2011 |publisher=Art Garfunkel}}</ref> from an overdose of [[Valium]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Atkinson|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Atkinson (writer)|title=[[Exile Cinema|Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood]]|location=[[Albany, New York]]|publisher=[[State University of New York Press|SUNY Press]]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7914-7861-5|oclc=878707252|page=185}}</ref> in the New York apartment they shared. Garfunkel was deeply affected by her death, and said: "She was beautiful, in a lonesome, haunted way, and I adored her. But I wasn't ready for marriage and she was not very comfortable being Laurie. She wasn't happy with herself. Her mother committed suicide at 26, and so did she."<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|last1=Shelden|first1=Michael|title=Can Art get the harmony back?|accessdate=June 7, 2016|date=January 27, 2003|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3589084/Can-Art-get-the-harmony-back.html}}</ref>

In late 1985, Garfunkel met former model Kathryn (Kim) Cermak (b. 1958; Czech spelling ''Čermák'') while shooting ''[[Good to Go (film)|Good to Go]]''. They married on September 18, 1988, and have two sons born in 1990 and 2005, via surrogate mother.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Baker |first=KC |date=November 7, 2005 |title=Art Garfunkel a Father Again at 64 |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1138395,00.html |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413142941/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1138395,00.html |archive-date=April 13, 2016 |access-date=November 21, 2011}}</ref> Arthur Jr. is also a singer, and released two German-language tribute albums with Simon & Garfunkel's greatest hits.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zipperlen |first=René |date=November 16, 2021 |title=Simon & Garfunkel als deutscher Schlager? Art macht Ernst |language=German |work=[[Badische Zeitung]] |url=https://www.badische-zeitung.de/simon-und-garfunkel-als-deutscher-schlager-art-macht-ernst--206498564.html |url-status=live |access-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331171129/https://www.badische-zeitung.de/simon-und-garfunkel-als-deutscher-schlager-art-macht-ernst--206498564.html |archive-date=March 31, 2022}}</ref> Garfunkel and Garfunkel Jr. collaborated on "Father and Son" in 2024; "My dad chose more of the songs from the 1940s," the younger singer explained,"and I was more of the 1980s selection. The 'Father and Son' recording was my suggestion, and my father did a great job with it."<ref>{{Cite web |title= 
Garfunkel and Garfunkel Jr. -Interview |url=https://pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Home/DetailsMobile?id=28265 |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Penny Black Music|language=en-US}}</ref>

Garfunkel senior has undertaken several long walks in his lifetime, writing poetry along the way. In the early 1980s, he walked across Japan in a number of weeks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official website |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/chrono/1980-1985.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814164147/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/chrono/1980-1985.html |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2016 |publisher=Art Garfunkel}}</ref> From 1983 to 1997, Garfunkel walked across the United States,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official website |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/walks.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530113617/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/walks.html |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2016 |publisher=Art Garfunkel}}</ref> taking 40 excursions to complete the route from New York City to the Pacific coast of Oregon. In May 1998, Garfunkel launched an instalment walk across Europe,<ref>{{Cite web |title=EuroWalk |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/europe_walk.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814071618/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/europe_walk.html |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2016 |publisher=Art Garfunkel}}</ref> from a start in Ireland to his final stop in Istanbul in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EuroWalk |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/europe_walk.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814071618/http://www.artgarfunkel.com/europe_walk.html |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2016 |website=Art Garfunkel Official website}}</ref>

Despite being a native New Yorker, Garfunkel is a lifelong [[Philadelphia Phillies]] fan, having written on his website: "I never followed the crowd. So as a Queens kid, I didn't want to be a [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Dodger]], a [[New York Yankees|Yankee]], or [[New York Giants (baseball)|Giant]] fan. One day when I was 8 I went to Ebbets Field and saw the Phillies with their red pinstripes, [[Robin Roberts (baseball)|Robin Roberts]], [[Willie Jones (third baseman)|Pudinhead Jones]]. Somehow this was for me. The rest is loyalty. Decades of pain."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cridlin |first=Jay |date=October 21, 2008 |title=Know Your Phamous Phillies Phans |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/popculture/know-your-phamous-phillies-phans/864985 |access-date=February 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227064120/http://www.tampabay.com/features/popculture/know-your-phamous-phillies-phans/864985 |archive-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref>

In 2017, Garfunkel came out as bisexual in his memoir What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man, saying "I was an angel singer, a homework nut; an underground man-lover of all beautiful asses, beautiful faces, beautiful bodies, boys and girls." <ref>Art Garfunkel, What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man (New York: Knopf, 2017), ISBN 978-0-3853-5247-5</ref>

Garfunkel has been arrested twice for the possession of [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]]: once in early 2004 and again in August 2005.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 31, 2005 |title=Garfunkel Arrested over Marijuana Possession |work=[[ABC News Online]] |agency=[[Reuters]] |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1449644.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229232325/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1449644.htm |archive-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref>