A Trip to the City – adventures in art and excess

Off to the Whitney leaving Dave and Enid munching

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

American Glory BBQ comes to Hudson

American Glory restaurant Hudson, NY 12534After months of construction, American Glory BBQ, replete with its redundancies in signage, is about to open. Located one door up the street from a proven legendary Hudson restaurant, Swoon, we expect it to open over this Memorial Day weekend. Walked by today and noticed that stools are at the bar and chairs and table at the ready.

Lets hope that American Glory BBQ turns out to be even half as “legendary” as its neighbor. That will be a great addition to the eating and drinking in Hudson.

Adventures to the Quotidian – a new epoch in the serial – “It’s Not Art ’til You Bite It”

I have been taking photos as series for as long as I have been carrying a camera around as a regular daily routine. Some of these series now have well over a thousand images associated with them. For the first time I am publishing one of my series, “It’s Not Art ’til You Bite It” in my new magazine, Adventures to the Quotidian.  Taking advantage of Hewlett Packard’s MagCloud.com magazine publishing system, I can both publish and distribute this series in an attractive magazine format.

If you would like to preview this first issue and then, of course, buy it, click on the MagCloud button below: