Rained pretty much all day. Breakfast at Bob’s. Very crowded due to Father’s Day crowds. Shopping at ShopRite. Later went to Natural Foods on Healy Blvd. Mostly a putter day. 6 people in the gallery.
Halo over mashed potatoes next to us.
Japanese mushroom salad
Scene at bar at Swoon.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave behind the bar.
Window display at Limner.
Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday. Another long wait to get through passport control. Train to Leiden was 10 minutes late departing, very unusual. Got to Maredijk by 9am. Kids already off to school. Had coffee with Jonathan and Nan. Brief nap. Then off to the Vodafone store to get chips for the phones. Lunch at City Hall.
Edsel outside of Bob’s Diner
Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Karen went off to Center for Photography in Woodstock to do portfolio reviews. 
HAL Board of Trustee meeting. Only Gary Sheffer and Steve Dunn were missing. Talked about the upcoming Funders Party, the Gala, Long Range Planning, and Fundraising Committee. Pretty uneventful. 75 minutes.
Gallery sitting at DOG.
Caroline Wilder stopped by. We talked about how she can manage her small business in a manner congenial to her personality and business needs…..She wants to keep her dress business small and personal. Doesn’t need Quickbooks that she isn’t comfortable with anyways. I suggested a simple paper journal for the 200-300 transactions a year. When she pulled out a MacBook Air I remembered that she is a digital native, so extended my suggestion to Google Sheets or Apple Numbers. “Whatever technique is comfortable.” She can get her other financial information from her checking account, credit cards, Venmo and other digital finance tools. She left sayin g that she felt relieved about how to keep track of her finances and her business. I told her she had to come back in couple of months to show me how she is doing.
Pauline Decarmo came over at 3pm to finish out the gallery duty. I played tennis with Ted from 3:30 to 5pm. Starting to feel as though we are getting back into the swing of outdoor summer tennis.
Dave Drake came by for dinner. He had been back and forth to Chicago during the week unloading Lauren Schaeffer’s shit. We drove out to the Art School of Columbia County in Hollowville section of Ghent. Nick Tipple and Erika Born had work on display.
Janus, Roman God of Past & Future by Nicolas Tipple
Éric Philippe Bernard Van Hove Marsan de Mondragon (born 1975 in Guelma, Algeria) is a Cameroon-raised Belgian conceptual artist and entrepreneur. He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech. (from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Van_Hove )
Bad night of little sleep. Cold slowly getting better.
looking out the window from the hotel – 16th floor….
Battleship New Jersey across the river….
Walked on the promenade below the hotel:
A few historic markers:
Parking ended up to be about 1/2 mile from the Barnes. Saw this strange truck across the street.
Sent photo to Matt Almeida as a joke. He replied:
That is GREAT! Only in Philly.
I remember all the food trucks in Philly, but I have never seen a background check truck.
Looks like you may have stumbled onto a new franchise model. A cheesesteak and criminal record check truck. The back half can sell cheesesteaks and you can order your criminal record check from the front half while you wait for them to cook it.
Is the slurping sound part of the design??
The iron works caught my eye. Turns out that Barnes had worked at the layout and arrangement of the objects in these room for decades. All part of a pedagogical approach (see John Dewey) to display not that of a museum. Then I noticed that the iron works were really arrangement of objects with their own shapes in counterpoise to various aspects of the paintings. The ironwork is a decorative element. There is not an intent to display them on their own.
Left Philadelphia and drive to Berkeley Heights for a visit with Ed and Meredith. Talk about their plans to move to the Seattle area, land and construction versus buying existing, Meredith’s retirement plans complicated by changes in retirement plans by the school system. We had roast lamb. It was Easter afterall. Met the new dog. Now forgotten the name. Energetic part beagle, 6 years old. Parker was in his usual question mode.
Returned to Hudson in time to go to Swoon for a drink with Dave. Doors closed but we got let in. Several people we know from Catskill were there. Ole walked in.
Cold continues. Spent good part of the day in bed. Rest of day working getting posts here up to date.
Karen returned from her talk in Boston around 1pm. She seemed uncertain about how the talk had been received. This despite lots of evidence during and after the talk that people were engaged and moved by the project. She went off to her book group. I drove the car around the block. High tide on the river.
Then beef with scallions at Red Chopsticks.
Drove to Wynwood section of Miami. Breakfast at local eatery.
3008 NW 2nd Ave Miami
Walked around a bit then went to Rubell Family Collection.
Quick return to Wynwood Walls street art murals. Not very interesting. These murals and much of the street art are a bit worn out stylistically.
Drove to Ft. Lauderdale.
Went to Winston neighborhood to see exhibit at Stonewall Museum of Meg Birnbaum’s
Stopped for a brief pause at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park on the beach. Walked to beach, looked enough to satisfy Karen that she had been to the ocean.
Split a beer. Arrived at David Murphy’s condo by 5:30 at 411 N. New River drive 31st floor. Great views. Apartment looks settled into now. Amazing marble floor com-pelted. Chatted with David about various. Went to dinner at Sky Thai restaurant on East Los Olas Blvd around the corner. Very good food and service. heard more of the story of David’s life – how he got started in the farming business in NYC, then Boston. Mentioned that his building in Somerville receives offers to purchase of $5 million. he is still holding
The Photographic Resource Center’s annual juries show Exposure 2018 at Lesley University’s VanDernoot Gallery, University Hall, 1815 Mass Ave, Porter Square, Cambridge held its opening reception today. Karen was one of 11 photographers exhibited. Her series “Strangely Attracted” were featured. Lots of friends and people from her art world showed up.
UTMH meeting with RPM team at Columbia Memorial Hospital.
We are pleased to announce the installation of “Bridges Past and Present: Crossing the Hudson River,” an exhibition of the work of artist Otto Miranda. This exhibition consists of 63 watercolors of bridges from the 1800’s to the present that all pass over the Hudson River from New York City to the river’s beginning in the Adirondack Mountains at Lake Henderson’s Tear of the Clouds. The bridges represented include vehicle, railroad, pedestrian, and even a troop bridges. They will be on exhibit in the library’s Community Room from Friday, January 5, until Wednesday, February 28.
The artist, Otto Miranda, has been a watercolor artist for 18 years. He moved to Columbia County in 2009, where the wonderful mountains and the Hudson River inspired him to take on this project. He spent 15 months researching and then traveled with his wife Dale, and her GPS, from the river’s beginning to the lower end. Together they photographed many of the existing bridges, which Miranda then painted. Bridges no longer in existence are painted in sepia tones. Miranda states, “My greatest expectation and satisfaction is to show this project at as many libraries, museums and other venues as possible so everyone can enjoy the history as much as I have preparing it for presentation. (http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2017/01/exhibition-bridges-past-and-present-crossing-the-hudson-river/ (accessed 03042020))
