Category Archives: Museums/Galleries

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.

2/1/2020 – 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

7/12/2019 – work, tooth cleaning, HAL mtg., drinks

Friday

Breakfast at Bob’s followed by shopping. UTMH – write new collateral about billing process, Troy Web telecon. Talk with Matt Almeida. Tooth cleaning. Looks like another tooth in upper left is infected and should be extracted.

Send this note and pictures to Ted and Chad Silver in ref a conversation we had after doubles night on Tuesday.

Subject: Warhol and the Last Supper
Chad and Ted,
Here are some pictures of this work now at The School in Kinderhook. Chad, you are right about the materials.
 
This might be my favorite Last Supper. But I also really like the Tintoretto version. Looks like a bunch of inebriates hanging out.
 

 

HAL Fundraising Committee meeting at Miranda Barry’s house. New member, Charlie Whittingham, experience fundraiser. He dove right in. Theresa Parsons, Gary Sheffer and David Murphy also participated. Charlie will bring some fresh eyes to our issues.

Ellen Feldman arrived for a weekend visit. Ted and Anne came over for our biweekly drink. Lots of talk about Paris since Ellen has just returned from her three month stay there.

7/9/2019 – Karen’s birthday, tennis

Tuesday

The Hostess cupcakes, our traditional birthday cake, seems to be shrinking with each passing year. Maybe the next birthday will require 4.

Skipped morning UTMH meetings. Drove to The School in Kinderhook for a private viewing of the galleries. There was a documentary of 1 hr 20 minutes on Basquiat’s life. We watched 30-40 minutes.

Lunch at Cascades.

Doubles tennis at Total Tennis. Played quite well. But, more important,  for the first time in weeks felt physically energetic and buoyant.

 

5/21/2019 – arrive Amsterdam, naps, phone cards, lunch, Torrey & Jane

Tuesday

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.