Last week we went to NYC for a Nyla event at Trinity. Along the way we went to the Guggenheim largely to see the Francesca Woodman show. We had to walk up the ramp quite a way to get to that show and I found myself enthralled by the sculpture of John Chamberlain. Continue reading
Category Archives: NYC
Art Book Fair at MOMA PS 1
Stopped off at the New York Art Book Fair. More overwhelming than last. Don’t these people know that books are so dead. Really last year there were two floors. This year they added on a whole tent in the courtyard. Too many books on politics and art movements that were obscure 40 years ago. Still some good stuff. Karen found a few she felt compelled to buy.
My nod to Lee Friedlander and countless other rear view mirror afficianadoes.
Location:Warren St,Hudson,United States
Forgetfulness, sloth, and other sources of screw ups conspire to delay a trip
This is what happens when your passport expires even one day, or in my case 20 days before a trip. Karen discovered this lapse the night before our trip to Hong Kong. I pouted and immediately had thoughts of abandoning all hope. Karen, the bull, got online and found a solution to the problem.
By the time we finished all the arrangements it was 11 pm. So, we got up a 4 am to drive down to NYC. Mighty few people on the Taconic at that hour.
I spent the day in Manhattan starting at 7:15 am here at Rush Passport, a very efficient though also very expensive service. Lightened of $520 ($350 for the service and $170 for the State Dept.) we left Manhattan.
Karen and I then had breakfast at a diner in Bayonne NJ before dropping her at Newark Airport. She went ahead to Hong Kong.
I went to Harlem and had a nap at Andrea’s house. No one there but the cat. An hour’s snooze and I was off to one of my regular stops whenever I can at the 42nd St. library. this always includes a visit to the Reading Room
on the top floor.
By 5 pm I had my new passport. I will leave for Hong Kong on Monday.
I tried hard to think up a scenario to blame Karen or anyone beside me for this gaff. But I have so far failed.
A Trip to the City – adventures in art and excess
Off to the Whitney leaving Dave and Enid munching
Last Wednesday we went off to NYC for a day of museums and food with Dave Drake and Enid Advocate. Arriving in the City at late lunch time, we just had to have a bite. This landed us at a Dean & Deluca’s deli (Madison and 85th). After the bite Karen and I departed leaving Dave and Enid still munching. We went off to the Whitney to see the Lee Friedlander show, “America by Car”. This is the latest demonstration that Friedlander still knows his old trick of shooting from inside his car with a quite unvarying framing approach. Roof pillars and rear view mirrors are in almost every image. When you are confronted with two rooms of pictures, 192 in all, with two rows running around the walls with almost no spacing between each picture, the effect is not even numbing, just mostly boring. Continue reading
Catching Up With Nyla and Noah – lots of action….
We drove down to the city Wednesday in time for a demonstration at Nyla’s dance class. Then, we went to Randall’s Island to catch a bit of Noah’s lacrosse practice. I had only seen Randall’s island from Manhattan and occasionally from the Triborough Bridge. The are one hundred fields for every imaginable sport there. Noah’s practice was at number 83. This is a short distance from the walking bridge to Manhattan at 103rd St. It appears that all of the playing fields are artificial grass. Great for maintenance and durability.
I could not get many good shots at Noah’s practice, lacking a telephoto lens.
Side Note:
Nyla is playing lots of tennis as are all of the family. Wicked backhand. I will get some action shots soon.
Noah being checked by coach