Category Archives: 2020

2/8/2020 – Saturday – back to Perez Museum, then Delray Beach, incomplete….

Rainy beginning and another breakfast at Burger King.

Then, off to the Perez Museum of  Art to catch the new African American exhibition. Took better pictures Carlos Estevez’ work Permanent Battle….

This explication is clearly wrong….

Rubell Family Museum

lunch at Noa Cafe (2711 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33137)

Drive to Flo’s house in Delray Beach.

Drinks and dinner at home….

2/7/2020 – Miami and visit with David Murphy, Wiener Museum of Decorative Art, Wolfsonian Museum

Friday

Up late. Stopped at Burger King for quick breakfast before driving to the Design District to meet up with David Murphy at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Brief visit there.

Lunch at a place all of us had eaten at before, St. Roch Market. David talked about his new house in Merida Mexico and showed pictures of new pool. Spoke of the separate bedrooms.

Followed with a lengthy visit to de la Cruz Collection next door to the Institute.

David left us and we jumped in the car to go to the Wiener Museum of Decorative Art in Dania Beach about 15 miles north. A palace of kitsch at one level, but sill an interesting visit.

near the ceramics museum….

After a quick stop at the hotel for a glass of wine and snacks, we went off up Washington St. to the Wolfsonian Museum. A real find. Karen insists that we have been there before. I have no memory.

Centrifugal speed controller

Dinner at Cafe Del Mar on Washington Ave.

 

2/6/2020 – fly to Florida

Thursday

Up at 5 am. Drove to Newark for 11am flight to Miami. The usual cattle car experience.

Very long traversal of the airport in Miami to get to the car rental agency. Arrived at hotel in Miami Beach by 5pm. Checked in to Urbanica Euclid Hotel.

Went to Perez Museum of Art in Miami. Much new on display.

Dinner at Orilla Cafe and Bar in the same building as the hotel.

2/4/2020 – UTMH, tennis…

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting….meet Leon Greene, CEO candidate with David Seth and Cameron. Very broad experience in tech and software, bright, good strategic mind. Need to work out future compensation issues before starting four month intro engagement.

Tennis lesson with Saif. Rapid ground stroke drills, serve, toss ball high, slow down the swing from rear drop position, hit up on ball for depth. Knee pain of last week gone.

2/2/2020 – Sunday – breakfast with group, lunch with Ruth and Paul Richards, Super Bowl

Breakfast at S & S with the Sunday brunch group.

Someone brought these artifacts from a 2003 show.

Then visit MIT Museum.

This is something capitalism lacks…

Lunch with Ruth and Paul Richards in Newton at O’Hara’s

Stop at Newton Public Library.

After lunch and return to Bill and Nancy’s, work on DOG website payment forms. Then the Super Bowl…….

2/1/2020 – Peabody Essex Museum, Linda Larson, Torrey

Saturday

Breakfast with Linda Larson. She was in very good form. Ending her poetry book series and moving on to a memoir. Also spoke about the Naming Project in which her suggestion of renaming schizophrenia as Altered Perception Syndrome is gaining ground. Helped her out after breakfast with some computer problems.

Putnam Square, Cambridge

Off to Salem MA for the Peabody Essex Museum. Main objective was an exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s American Struggle panels. Not very persuasive.  Other work seen at the Peabody Essex.

Lunch at Turner’s SeafoodsDropped off Esther. Went to another movie in Arlington. Just Mercy.

Mass Ave. Arlington near theatre/

Coffee before the show….

Arrived at Bill and Nancy’s at about 7:30.

Nancy not quite present

1/31/2020 – Jane Orton dies

Friday

Received this from Torrey:

This was a complete surprise. We’d been expecting  a progress report from Jane at the end of January. Not her death. 

Jonathan wrote this to Torrey:

Dear Torrey,

I just now received the news of Jane’s passing.

I’m overseas, far from others.

And I am thinking of the moments we’ve spent together in different combinations at different times across continents.

These include my first meeting with Jane in Australia…at her office … in 1997 I think … and all the times I’ve spent with her and you, and all of our times together, with Nan and the kids.

Your presence in our lives, together, has brought us warmth, confidence, and feelings of connection. We feel these now.

Nan happened to be wearing the earrings Jane gave her in May when she learned this news, sitting at our dining table in Leiden. The kids were by her side.

Torrey, there’s no way to describe the mix of love and gratitude I am feeling right now toward you both.

Such a beautiful, beautiful soul, Jane …I feel lucky to know her and to feel her as a part of my life.

Nan and I over the years have talked about you two, about how much we appreciate you both…

In other words you are a significant part of our lives and our sense of self and family.

And though at early stages in their lives, Jesse and Anna have experienced your love.

Vivid images of their interactions with you and Jane sprinkled across their past few years come to mind as I write these words…

We all treasure our time together with you both.

These are my initial thoughts.

Talk soon and in due course.

I’d be happy to chat with you by phone or mail as you see fit. A phone call might be nice at some point.

Love from us all,

Jonathan

Drove  to Winchester to drop off photo books. Then dropped Karen at her Soup Group meeting at Ellen Feldman’s house. Went to library. Worked on DOG website. Ran into Andrea Geyer. Went back to Esther’s house then off to movie – The Gentlemen. Dinner at Amelia’s.

Tried to get ahold of Torrey. Left message.