MoMA closing and related museum stuff
MoMA shut down for renovations in June, and will be closed until late in October. I still have a MoMA membership, but hadn’t gotten in to see it much lately, […]
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Notre-Dame follow-up
Just some links to more information about the Notre-Dame fire, from the NY Times: Pictures of Notre-Dame Before the Fire – some random old photos. What We Know and Don’t […]
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris Catches Fire This is breaking my heart. I have fond memories of visiting Notre-Dame back in high school, when my French class took a trip to […]
A day in NYC
I had a pretty good day in NYC today. I’d been wanting to go in at some point over the holiday season, but never got around to it. So I […]
First museum trip of 2018
I haven’t been to the Met or MoMA in some time. Between bad weather and bad health, I just haven’t been able to get into New York. I finally talked […]
Sisyphus Stones and Good Fences
A Mystery Solved: Why the ‘Sisyphus Stones’ Rise and Tumble – from the NY Times. This sounds like something i would have liked to see. The article is from September, […]
Extended Thanksgiving weekend laziness
All this month, I’ve been tossing ideas around in my head about productive things I could do with my four-day Thanksgiving weekend. And now it’s Sunday, and I’ve done very […]
A nice apartment
From An Eye-Popping Mid-Century Apartment Filled With Pollocks, Klines, and de Koonings: Ben Heller bought Jackson Pollock’s One, Number 31, 1950, when he lived in an apartment with lower ceilings. […]
Making the best of it
I decided to take the train into NYC today to see the new Rodin exhibit at the Met. But I hit a couple of snags with that. (This post probably […]
photos from NYC today
I went into NYC today and took a handful of random photos. I decided to do something I haven’t done in a while: upload them to Flickr and create an […]