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.
Train at One Hudson City Ctr.
Worked on pictures from last weekend and the Evicted exhibit in particular at the National Building Museum.
Wrote post about that for AD.
UTMH – talked with Sam about customer service role He is in. Met with Seth UTM:RPM bug list. Wexelman.
Anita Harris. More about her brother Alan and the Albany house.
Doubles tennis at Total Tennis. Good play.
Late breakfast at Bob’s. Whitney and Steve were there. Karen and I talked about a road trip in September. Went to Walmart. Karen arranged for my first shot of the new anti-shingles vaccine.
Worked on the photos from the Sicily trip in 2018. Over 1,400 from this Netherlands-Sicily trip in October. The iPhone time stamps and the camera time stamps are slightly out of synch causing troubles with the sequencing.
Went to art opening in late afternoon at Hudson Opera House. Too many people. Stopped at Red Dot for a drink and appetizers.
On the way home ran into Michael O’Hara outside his house. We stood over the construction site next door.
Just as I noticed that the first floor joists are attached to a ledger board instead of sitting on top of the foundation Michael said that the contractor had poured the wall 18” too high. What a mess. Then Michael told the story of how the original building had collapsed because they had dug down 2 feet below the bottom of the original stone foundation. The clay subsoil gave way causing first a side wall then the front wall to slip in under the building. Big SNAFU. So far this is not an advertisement for competence on the part of the architect owners nor the contractors.
Watched the fourth in the Kavanaugh Q.C. British TV series from the mid ‘90s. Followed by another VEEP.
Breakfast at Bob’s Diner followed by brief shopping.
Drove to Albany in mid afternoon.
Albany Institute of History and Art.
United sent email suggesting reschedule of tomorrow’s flights because of snow storm in northeast. Karen took care of all the arrangements including car rental extension and hotel room for tomorrow night. Flo has seen enough of us and her kids arrive Wednesday.
Went to Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Newly opened vast expansion of the building. Continue reading
Drove to Boca Raton Museum on Mizner Plaza. Parked 1/4 mile or more away. 
Lots of photography. Florida history. Continue reading
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